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monetization of our collective unconscious. readings and salyut. tis the season for misreporting hawk watchers c.n.n. a.b.c. c.b.s. and others came under serious fire from fellow journalists and news media watchdogs after a series of russia gate based stories implicating president trump and his band of cronies in one form of scold augury or another were found to be patently false most egregious was our good friends at c.n.n. one friday could barely contain their neo liberal con delight in reporting that according to reliable sources an individual fronting for wiki leaks had emailed the trump campaign a secret offer giving them access to the allegedly hacked d.n.c.

emails before they were going to be released to the public oh and because wiki leaks could only have gotten those d.n.c. e-mails from russia you could practically hear the champagne pop and c.n.n. president jeff zucker's office that day this was finally this was finally the smoking gun that blitzer tapper and the rest of been pining for since trump beat hillary clinton in the deep state declare of the that that could only only only only be russell's fault. well if you if you haven't heard by now it appears that cnn's reliable sources aren't all that reliable and apparently misread the dates on the e-mail yes the collusion e-mail actually came after wiki leaks released the d.n.c. e-mails to the public and the person who sent the links appears to be just some random citizen not even remotely connected to he can't leaks as the intercepts glenn greenwald eloquently writes us media outlets are very good at demanding

respect but journalists also have the responsibility not just to demand respect and credibility but to earn it this is not the first time that c.n.n. and others have gotten stories blatantly wrong about wiki leaks trump and russia gate and it certainly won't be the last for those of us who lived through the run up to the george w. bush iraq war and the whole weapons of mass destruction destruction fiasco we've seen these major media mistakes missed reportings and unreliable sources before. i ask how many more lives and corporate p.r. apologies will it take for it's time to turn off the least trusted name in news and start watching the hawks. you get the. real thing with. the bottom.

like you that i got. this. week. welcome aboard the watch of the hawks i am i robot and on top of this and this is not the end this is let's see him and we're talking about c.n.n. just it scares me when i see that behind me i feel like people might get the wrong idea that they might feel that you're suddenly going to spin them a big wild yarn that's not true. now that i look story after story we've been inundated since donald's election. of russia collusion russia gay they're doing this they're doing that mueller's investigating this blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. and most of the time they're falling apart or

you know mountains are being made out of molehills as the state as the saying goes you know is the time to say enough is enough and you know and admit that this didn't happen the way for intelligence agencies and the mainstream news media and clinton and the gang want us to believe i think that's a huge thing that we have to ask ourselves in a context and as not me as a journalist but us as american citizens or us as the world has to look at the story look at the pieces and truly ask ourselves what the many narratives of. theory is about what happened really happened and which one of those are real concerns because we've spent millions of dollars taxpayer money investigating the whole russian collusion russian hacking. i'm not seeing anything new come out that . these people are shady most of terms people are shady not

a surprise there's also a little dose of gambling in this establishment they're. going to like them but they're not colluding but they're not good enough for us it's like that's my whole thing is you we this story and how quickly it spread and how how many times we've seen this you either have to put up or shut up about it if you're going to keep pushing a narrative that it's true and get so defensive when anybody questions that the new need to start giving some answers because we have to work ten times harder than everybody else and get zero credibility get zero respect the fact that we we have an editorial rule on this show how many sources do we need three sources three sources that's based sources though tell me a little bit about rather reliable reliable sources. right so this is the thing about this whole sourcing and while there's a lot of arguments about anonymous sources and whether you should use them and how many to back it up this i don't even think this is

a question about necessarily about how many sources but why you should have at least three and why you should double check your work it's plausible that one source i don't think is that there's possible that one source misread the data i mean that's possible and though a story the problem is though in a story that about wiki leaks and trump collusion that hinges on the release dates of these e-mails that whole argument falls apart you make the whole thing was true troll is it remotely plausible that multiple sources which were they keep saying or to two sources told them the same thing i. i think personally that one source and they thought was reputable enough and reliable enough that he couldn't possibly ever get any he or she could possibly get anything wrong i think they had that one source and they went with it because they couldn't imagine that a congressman or somebody could could have mis read any. sort of.

dusty in here you know and what's also most up to is you saw those sources good spread out there so there's not only the c.n.n. but other news agencies as well that day on friday all pushing the same agenda we don't know who this is because even as the guts to come out and actually say here's the source of the gave us bad information like they did with the james o'keefe story glenn greenwald writes rather than informing the public about what happened and providing minimal transparency of accountability for themselves the high level officials who caused this to happen they are hiding behind meaningless obvious skated statements crafted by p.r. executives and lawyers and they need to stop stop stop doing that. and it december twenty sixth in pure research survey twenty three percent of us adults admit to knowingly or unknowingly sharing fake news which is how cnn's inaccurate e-mail story and the incorrect and malice is of the story managed to spread like wildfire across social media and the fact that it spread so fast should

come as no surprise that is ben cnn's goal for years being the first to report breaking news c.n.n. facebook has just over twenty nine million followers while their twitter page has over thirty eight point seven million followers that's a grand total of sixty seven point seven million people just from two social media posts on two platforms when you were out and just to c.n.n. reporter social media accounts the number of people who saw the incorrect story for hours grows exponentially the original and original treat about the story was shared. reliable sources brian stelter who's five hundred forty nine thousand followers read tweeted it over twenty one hundred times and like to tweet over three thousand times now c.n.n. reporter manu rodger who originally broke the story sent the tweet to his one hundred sixteen thousand followers which was retreated eleven hundred forty one times and like over seven hundred times that means that the social media reach of

this one incorrect report and the ensuing hours of debate regarding it reached at least one hundred ten million people just through c.n.n. social media platforms and just for one post on c.n.n. dot com they state that c.n.n. digital is the number one online news destination routinely recording more than one point five billion multi-platform page views each month that they're in more than ninety six point two million households and more than eight hundred ninety thousand hotel rooms but most importantly c.n.n. is also number one on social media with more mentions fans of followers than any of their competitors what this all adds up to is an audience of nearly three hundred million impressions or views nearly twice as much in gauge men and impressions as the purported russian things book ads of the twenty sixteen election and that isn't taking into account every official c.n.n. staff member who tweeted the story those three tweets and so on and sort of fourth or every post regarding the story that was sent out from other c.n.n.

social media accounts that is not to say that more than three hundred million people saw it took notice or even believe the false c.n.n. story that would be fake news however what is real news is the fact that all of our standards need to rise or the new will be nothing more than partisan mouth breathing in a social media war more concerned with view counts than serving the public good and that is why it is so important that you make their good point i mean that's a massive amount of reach to where when you serve one. false news story you send our one thing on verified you trust the wrong source whatever excuse you want to give or hey in my world to me with the amount of false news we've seen over and over again looks like a coordinated effort almost at this point but let's give the benefit of the doubt was so incredible if you go put out much information you have to if you have that

much read reach you have to double triple quadruple check right and that's something that i that i say is that i don't think model. the reporter who originally gave this over italy reported this story should be fired i don't i think that he followed the other you tauriel standards that he was given he didn't make the decision to go on air he certainly doesn't have the power to do that so i think sort of he comes in with the story says this is what i have and they say go with that. and the thing is there's they keep saying they haven't apologized and five reliable source this feller has said made clear that we they didn't apologize they just said this happened but they didn't apologize i think they should well and i think there is an apology to have because if i bring the wrong way if you you know mispronounce a word and they would have been a you know you sounded vaguely russian or something and they'd probably have a field day with what they get to go to a so they get it they get a last stricter restrictions on their honesty or their mistakes than i think other

news whether it's fox news m.s.n. b.c. or anybody it seems like they got a free pass so i want to especially when you see the wake of reporters that have been you know given you know we've been terminated or you know suspensions for four months and things like that and like i said i think those arguing those media critics are doing right now that who are their sources reveal their sources who gave you this bad information i think that that sort of about i think that's a lot of doors a journalist but then here let me present this to you know as journalists if we start giving up our sources when they have when they might not get something when something might be an honest mistake is that really the direction we want to go to pillory anyone who might in i think when you see a cord made of effort in this case where you have they say these are sources got a raw how to do resources there are you going to court me maybe it was given bad information on purpose that's where you have to step up and that's where they have to be the good journalist and find that out and then report back to us that would be the ultimate way to go all right let's go to brian court watchers don't forget

to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered of facebook and twitter see our full shows that are two thousand com coming up our correspondent asked with frank's brings us the troubling timeline of all of the news for attractions we've seen recently and our two stories chavez brings us the story of the recent attempted bombing in york city states in one. you mean you don't. want to do i. did a quick little. what did you not to only did it to. lead to the kill you said. cement turned into a no turban did i see that. alec do you speak french. those were the result of. that same year the senate bill clinton new president is

told good souls busy the bill to discuss. the past week or two may seem like armageddon for mainstream media's fake news problem we can't let these recent episodes destructor us front is actually a much older and systematic affliction lest we forget the mainstream love of the sensational and wildly untrue headline has been on display for a while now and has been metastasizing at an alarming rate ever since the inception of russia gate as the number one priority of a salish print media whether it be journalist cozy relationships with the intelligence communities often flagrantly inaccurate anonymous sources or the lazy habit of blaming any and all mishaps in the western hemisphere on russian hackers

fancy bear or cozy beer or whatever bears available this week this pandemic of shoot from the hip in accuracy and straight out yellow journalism that has been growing for quite a while before today's apacs for more on that we term artie's actually backs. president donald trump is calling out the new york times for publishing what he calls fake news from tweeted this morning quote another false story this time in the failing new york times that i watch forty eight hours. television a day wrong also i seldom if ever watch c.n.n. or m.s. and b c both a which i consider fake news i never watch it don lemon who i once called the dumbest man on television bad reporting the new york times responded to trump's tweet saying quote we have the new york times stand by our reporting source from interviews with sixty advisers associates friends and members of congress and recommended that trump read the story it has not yet been determined if this is

a case of fake news however in the past well known networks and publications have had to retract news stories a linking trump to russia a few months back media outlets published a story saying russia tempted to hack into u.s. voting systems citing claims made by the department of homeland security the usa today article said quote russians attempted to hack election systems and twenty one states in the run up to last year's presidential election official said friday the story was ripped apart when the associated press report at wisconsin one of the states included in the original report did not have its voting systems targeted by russian hackers but there was that time c.-span online feed was a briefly interrupted by r.t. programming c.-span tweeted saying quote this afternoon the online feed for c.-span was briefly interrupted we are operating under the assumption that it was an internal routing issue and that changes we will certainly let you know many believe

c.-span was hacked by the network however that was not the case and in june of this year three c.n.n. journalists resigned after the network was forced to retract and apologize for a story linking trump ally anthony scare mucci to a russian and vestment fund their report was based on a single anonymous source leading to many factual and accuracies and the report and december twenty sixth. team the guardian published an article by ben jacobs claiming julian assange gave guarded praise of trump and blasted clinton during an interview the report alleges songe had a close relationship with the russian government soon after the article was published in one viral being shared millions of times on the enter net however both claims were completely false prior to that slate published an article by franklin foer detailing a connection between trump's businesses and a bank and russia on october twenty sixth he and hillary clinton sent out an e-mail

summing up what she got from the slate article for your mention the new york times was investigating the link the times later reported the f.b.i. walked into the matter and dismissed the idea that two servers were a secret channel for communication between trump and in russia after the claims were deemed false trump's campaign fired back at for years saying quote the email server set up for marketing purposes and operated by a third party has not been used since two thousand and ten the trump organization is not sending or receiving any communications from this e-mail server the trump organization has no communication or relationship with this entity or any russian entity obsession with russia gate has negatively impacted many media outlets as they continue to spread this narrative whether these lessons will be taken into account is yet to be seen and washington actually banks are t.

. and there was a smattering of some of the news stories that we've seen either be retracted or pulled back or where the headline kind of you know betrays what's actually in the story that we have all of us and to me i don't know i look at the tab and i see a pattern of a concentrated effort to get the pulse of light out retracted later but by but as you pointed out earlier in the show without many people seeing just not want to headline news before you know maybe the retraction comes out of his small little print later right you creates an impression right and i think you're talking about people who don't really pay that much attention to the news i think the impressions most of the impressions are views of the story were mostly in airports and doctors not because those is probably what the sound of. ballo so i wonder how you know i don't know how serious it is but at the same time if we're going to be like oh my god it reach all these people you have to be responsible that we have to look at at

this whole idea that everything online at c.n.n. has all those you know weight to it but at the end of the day i don't believe it's this concerted effort i think that we give the u.s. government the u.s. intelligence service no no no disrespect to anybody serving our country thank you very much but i think we give them more credit than what they even have time to do the idea that you know someone like i'm sure is out planting stories or whatever i just i think i think he looked but i think people look at things and they get they jump on things they don't take the time soon realize that i feel that i don't have . to be the motive the symbol the motive is that we don't have enough of a real case to justify the money that we've spent and the hardening of spotlight and all of. the lies that we've started telling and the the story we've built up we don't have a number i really do that we know that maybe they'll get truck mueller might get

trump or something that has nothing to do with you know collusion and upsetting and election but we need to kind of we don't want to be told that we were wrong but you know i mean like we put all our eggs. why didn't you pay it out this is the thing we should have been on the stories about trump and sexual abuse and sexual harassment from day one and she said i'm still better job doing that because now we have white house press secretary saying well it's already litigated because the people voted for. her but i do believe that there was a coordinated effort so we will agree to disagree on this was one more. one there morning rush hour in new york city came to a grinding halt when a makeshift explosive device went off just steps away from times square the port authority bus terminal the bomb appeared to have gone up earlier. fortunately because no fate ptolemy's with the attacker twenty several brooklyn resident who entered the country several years ago from bangladesh injuring himself and taken into police custody if initial comments from law enforcement that the attack was

isis inspired proved correct this marks the city's second isis like attack in under two months after a brutal truck ramming attack claimed eight lives also a manhattan's west side for on the ground details we're joined now by our teams twenty chavez live from midtown manhattan thank you for joining us today. that's very like you says we now know that this was an isis inspired a inspired attack that and then investigators told authorities today that the suspect had actually said that the recent israeli actions in gaza is the reason why he tried to carry out this act of terror now this is one of the busiest transportation hubs in the country thousands of people go in and out of this hub every single day and so when this struck there was actual everybody in the city was extremely concerned now we're standing right where the explosion took place

underground in this area now we now know that there was four people injured including the suspect and authorities say that this would have been a much much worse because the bomb had actually only partially detonated let's take a listen to what authorities had to say earlier today. there was an explosion the police commissioner will go we need to was a minor it was a you know practically low point device. there were several injuries we hold on or. go the extraordinary world thank you very much governor. let's be clear as new yorkers our lives revolve around the subways when we hear of an attack on the subway is incredibly unsettling. and let's be also clear this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not. result in a goal. thank god our first responders were there so quickly to address the

situation make sure people were safe thank god the only increase you know at this point minor. you know officials told r.t. that the device was not a sophisticated bomb at all that it was a homemade pipe bomb and only partially detonated so it did not have the effect that the suspect was looking for the explosive chemical did ignite but the pipe itself did not go off but the suspect it was the one who got injured because he was actually carrying the device and so he had injuries all along his abdomen abdomen and his arms but as this investigation unfolds we're learning more about the suspect as charles said earlier that it is a twenty seven year old by the name of a kid ola originally from bangladesh but he lives right here in brooklyn according to investigators the suspect did make the advice the device at work however we do

not know at this time the line of work that he is currently in we do know however that he was formally a taxi driver in new york city who was certified to drive in the city until two thousand and fifteen but then his registration was not renewed. but this investigation is still ongoing further investigate investigations of the ties that he had to with other terrorist organizations is underway but we do know that this was an inspired isis attack thank you very much through the actual order number grown up of the people in the story and will have you back on as the story gets more and more interesting or wherever it goes thank you very much. and. i think it's the thing or you get yours to it at some point. as i've said on the show before i was and you know i was in new york in manhattan. during nine eleven when i happen and that's one of those things that you start to get used to certain

things but you also realize that around the world other people have dealt with this every day and i will say that it was my palestinian friends my israeli friends who really helped me through nine eleven because they had been through this as children speaking of palestine israel to interesting that the suspect there was there's word that the suspect was saying that that's not a service it was the this is what it's all called blowback that the decisions and things that we say will come back to haunt us i hope that this is the only way that we see here with him she will be shipped over the seas as well as hope so. so in the long musk in the tesla brand maybe the most famous electric car maker in the world but auto mechanic elvira o'dell of pots and computer scientist hector rhea's may be the most ingenious for the last decade the pair of been transforming old gas guzzling exhaust spewing beaters and mexico city into environmentally friendly zero emissions electric cars and a testament their ability it's reported that they can convert an older guzzler into a green friendly masterpiece and roughly a week they do this in an effort to help cut down on mosque in mexico city's

massive pollution problem caused in part by the estimated three point five million cars carrying the city's twenty million residents and while the pair have only been able to complete twenty cars over the last decade for them it's the ins. to go green and the ingenuity to truly take the motto of reduce reuse recycle to heart. good story good story let's love those two guys you're like why not change the world really really little to do or those are show for you today everybody remember everyone in this world we are not told we love them up so it's all you all i love you i am i rolled with and on top of the lawless keep on watching those hawks and every great day and night everybody.

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