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dot com stay with us for the big picture investigating the links between the u.s. and saudi arabia. right. teachers are striking and four states pipeline deja vu in louisiana and what's this sinclair t.v. controversy really about i'm holland cook in washington this is the big picture on r t america. in kentucky teachers' pension overhaul was tacked on to a waste water bill state attorney general andy bashir said lawmakers voted without

the legally required and alice and he says he'll sue. so i'm here today to reassure you if and when the governor signs that bill into law your attorney general's office will file suit seeking to overturn as much if not all of this terrible bill as we can arizona teachers haven't walked out yet but thousands are wearing red and rallying support for a pay raise at the hash tag where red for add colorado teachers have lost the most to inflation now effectively earning fifteen percent less than twenty years ago another flashpoint in this developing story is west virginia where teachers struck protesting one and two percent raises a few days later the state legislature coughed up five percent in oklahoma where teachers have the third lowest salaries in the usa and many school districts of cut back to a four day week geography teacher quipped it's like the arab spring but

it's teachers spring governor mary fallin said teachers want more but it's kind of like having a teenage kid that wants a new car. and then the oklahoma education association released this statement over a decade of neglect by the legislature has given our students broken chairs and classrooms outdated textbooks that are duct taped together four day school week classes that have exploded in size and teachers who have been forced to donate plasma work multiple jobs and go to food pantries to provide for their families we are saying enough no more empty promises the governor and the legislature need to act now to fix this and joining us are two public school teachers from

oklahoma allison qubad and larry cagle larry is one of the leaders of the grassroots group oklahoma teachers united welcome thanks for being with us tonight thank you thanks for having me larry tell us about your group. well about a year ago this time last year a group of us were sitting in a discussion meeting and we all started spilling our own personal stories from there we realized we had a united feeling that things had gone too far we had had enough and from it grew a movement this particular movement exploded in january when teachers started calling in sick a big group from where i am in tulsa over to oklahoma city and eventually we ended up with students who started their own protest following behind us and from there was an announcement that superintendents and unions would have to get on board with their words out and we were going to walk describe for our viewers the life of an

oklahoma public school teacher day to day life for me is getting up in my classroom setting up for the day teaching for seven hours setting up for the next day so that's about a nine hour day there and then i leave and i go to my second job which is doing event coordination and member management and then on my way home i turn on my post make apps and do a couple of deliveries but when i get home i'm ready to grade and then i finally just kind of do it all over again and so even though i'm in what i would argue is one of the best districts in the state i still have to supplement my income i still have to provide a lot of things in my classroom and so in response to governor fallin i would say i don't want to do car i just want a car that works well even with the pay increase right even with the bank rates we're not even we're not even you give us

a ten thousand dollar raise and we're still among the lowest paid teachers in the country that's how bad it is larry how did we get here to begin with we're describing symptoms what's the issue well what we're looking at is a swing in political climate if you if you take a look at west virginia kentucky. and you look at arizona and oklahoma you realize there are some similarities here all four of us first are highly conservative states i mean all four of us voted overwhelmingly for trump if you go up and down the ranks of teachers you find highly conservative teachers if you ask our parents they're highly conservative and yet here we are with a statewide walkout with unbelievable community support so how is this possible and the answer is we have two other things that play in here one right to work i think that most teachers in most most republicans would agree that right to work was a law that needed to be passed but what happened was we ended up with unions that were to streamline weaken all four of those states and uniquely weak in arizona and

oklahoma where the right to work laws have been a lot longer so we're saying is that nonunion teachers are forty two thousand teachers in the state of oklahoma only sixteen thousand of us are union do paying teachers so we're seeing a push back to that we're also seeing legislators that aren't used to acknowledging you know what do you do when forty two thousand people stand up who've been voting for your well mainly tell you you have to now do things differently i don't think that the union understand how to get us out of this i don't think the legislators are clear that this isn't going to go away so you have teachers like allison and i out on a protest line trying to explain to legislators who don't know what's going on trying to explain to a union who doesn't know what's going on how to get us into and out of this protest defile as though you're getting through to them. no absolutely not right now all we

a is up there trying to figure out how to fund this through ball and dice gambling but the state of oklahoma has some of the most most elaborate funding scenarios for education out there we have both lottery and casino money coming in the indian nations have given us over a billion that's billion with a big dollars and yet we're the lowest funded school system in the country so you think adding ball and dice is going to help us well and i'd like to add to that i think at this point they're hoping to wait us out there are several bills on both the house and the senate floor right now that that could end this that could give the revenues that we're hoping to see that they want to hold back on those they keep refusing to hear those bills in an effort to get back in our conference because we do miss our students and we would rather be teaching and so i think the hope is that they wait us out we go away and everything goes quietly in the night

we lose public support and we can't do this again in a year and so i think that we've got to get through to them that we're not going anywhere until we see these revenue measures passed and signed absolutely this is going to get ugly i mean i i mean i cannot say that enough it's going to get feisty and it's going to get ugly and the teachers are going to be easily coddled off of the line and there is going to get ugly is because they're shocked they can't get their heads around the political dynamics of what do you do with conservative teachers were telling the conservative legislator that you've got this wrong you don't underfund at this level. alison qubad and larry thank you not only for your time tonight but for what you do. the bayu bridge pipeline in louisiana is the southern leg of that controversial dakota pipeline it would move up to four hundred eighty thousand barrels of crude from lake charles to saint

james over one hundred sixty three miles if completed it would link up with an existing pipeline from texas and would carry u.s. produced oil to refineries along the mississippi river forty percent of the u.s. is wetlands are in louisiana it's home to a fishing industry that serves about one third of the seafood we eat but an rolf's the founder of louisiana bucket brigade says that business is baked into the recipe. for one hundred years now the oil industry has dominated our state and they have insinuated themselves into our culture extremely well in louisiana office of economic development travels the globe with maps of st james that are empty that don't show schools or churches or hospitals or people's homes and they say here

come put your polluting deadly chemical plant here so it's a state policy in late february a district court issued a preliminary injunction which blocked completion of the pipeline now a divided fifth circuit court of appeals has stated that injunction and ordered an expedited hearing for the by you bridge appeal and rovs says the resistance is undaunted you know we plan on winning this and i think we're just starting to think about how to now use this to say but you know what else is happening in our state you know we're also building this gas fired power power plant and we're also planning on a liquefied natural gas terminal and we're thinking now about linking all of these battles and saying it's not just this pipeline it's. this whole really messed up vision of the future that we understand is just making the same old white dudes really rich we are following this story should politics influence

local nudists and what's really going on at sinclair broadcast group that's next this is the big picture on r t america. than what i could do that he will go back to life. or yours will put you out of a. job it in the mountains and what about and i didn't do it will always be the good he said that's the. only one to hold. on a punishment. keep it or don't or don't let you keep

coming up with the truth. not about i live in the mad at that game and the money because i'm. not bad with the internet but oh november if i say i have them they're gonna do like about none of it but i have the only thing it is about. the tech sector that's leading this rally we've seen for the past five or six years requires a logistics on a global basis to work in perfect sync so there's going to be a fall out as some countries are going to go to war with each other but they can be trade wars as can be cyber wars that means that platforms that require precipitation and sinking fall out and drop out and crashing in different areas so their revenues have got to suffer as

a result. after weeks of media hysterics and official claims without a shred of evidence to the case that russia was behind this all is very poisoning incident is falling apart transparency in the rule of law have never played a role what happens next sadly is only too predictable. you've been seeing a lot this week about the sinclair broadcast group the biggest t.v. station owner in the usa and they're hoping to get bigger this company was already controversial jerad questioner had disclosed that the trump campaign swapped special access to his father in law in exchange for coverage by sinclair stations and the company requires its local stations to air within newscasts conservative

commentaries by former trump aide boris epstein and this week sinclair stations news anchors became the news as they were assigned to reciting a script from the home office for some reason to believe there's nothing the source of their own for my condition and control. the message cautions that biased and false news has become all too common on social media and that some news media outlets publish stories without fact checking. when a widely distributed video montage b. trade local anchors messages as orders from headquarters social media exploded what's really happening here the big picture let's ask mark crispin miller new york university professor of media studies welcome professor a great debate where the of mark after networks were seduced into embedded coverage of the iraq invasion and really failing to read the room in the twenty sixteen

presidential election national established media have lost credibility are the local news people reciting this corporate script more believable. well i mean that this is a complicated situation because on the one hand it is absolutely true that sinclair is too big it owns too many stations no company should own that many t.v. stations it's also true that sinclair is is run in a kind of ruthless top down way and it is a right wing propaganda machine these charges are all completely accurate. however i don't think that this big hoo ha over the various local anchors being forced to recite the same script. is really motivated by a concern for media democracy and the first amendment rights of journalists you

know obviously the local anchors all over the country being forced to read that script is very troubling it's a very powerful mean to talk about it and so on we think of big brother and so on pro trump propaganda but all the mainstream outlets the print outlets and others that are deploring what's going on at sinclair are really guilty of exactly the same thing that they're criticizing ok because while those anchors are all mouthing the exact same script i mean verbatim we see the new york times in the washington post and c.n.n. and m s n b c and the networks and n.p.r. and p.b.s. they could go on and on and on all following the same script albeit in different words when it comes to some of the most important stories facing us today we cannot actually find any divergence whatsoever from the state dictated

script on things like russia's meddling in the election or russia poisoning the screen pollin solsbury or the civil war in syria you know whether it's with its freedom loving rebels fighting the oppressive gover. that of assad etc i mean i could go through quite a long list of stories like that where all the dissident opinion all of the contradictory information is not only rigorously suppressed and shadow banned on line but also smeared and ridiculed and identified as russian propaganda so i think that those criticizing sinclair in this case should just take a good hard look in the mirror well witness the power of video because this video montage of the mosaic that's been bouncing around the internet has betrayed sinclair doing if i understand you what you figure most of them do correct exactly

but doing it in a much more egregious and ham fisted way i mean what what sinclair is doing it's doing badly you know it's too obvious right propagate propaganda cannot be obvious propaganda has to come at us as something other than itself got at least some of us as journalism exactly and the stuff from sinclair you know it's like something right out of orwell's one thousand nine hundred four it really does have the thank you professor mark crispin miller from new york university fletcher fisher with the international brotherhood of electrical workers local twelve twenty eight whose members include news talent it various stations in new england told the providence journal no one in our bargaining unit is happy with the way sinclair is forcing these must runs they're in the same boat that every anchor is with sinclair if they complain about something they're gone. to that point let's bring in pedro gonzalez president of the florida association of hispanic journalists since nineteen

eighty-four you've seen a lot of change jonathan beaton is the guy he says it was more than just the questions it was the stories we were told to do they had to have a religious tie and we couldn't do stories for the most part that involve the l.g.b. t.q. community basically they were a set of parameters we had to stick to him what is your organization's position on what sinclair is doing we think is wrong but believe me it's not singular the first one this is happening all around for example in the two biggest binding networks from new zealand until the moment they fire in thousands of people for like google new pretty enough for you girls pregnant or you annoyed young enough stuff laid out is happening all the time we're trying to five but you have to remember. to use the thing that put somebody in front of walmart old put in the coca-cola there you go

for the money sure now let's bring in attorney and media analysts lionel and i'll ask you both lionel and pedro in that order wide angle shot on this story the consumer has taken control as pedro says nobody feels the pain more than t.v. broadcasters whose car mercial zwi now skip without pushing the button on our d.v.r. remote like travel agents and stock brokers and bookstores and all the other middleman the internet has george circuited broadcasters now suffer because content has become come out of ties news is on the phone now do you lionel see sinclair's political flavor as an effort to bond roseanne viewers with fox news style preaching to the choir. this story is a one hundred percent bunkum hokum hooey this must run story them beg story this week about the must runs and how these

poor people had to read the must runs holland did you when your esteemed guest ever hear or read the entire content a warning must run good point anybody that's right never judge of the whole script may i read one i'm not going to read the whole thing for god but hey i read just one this is from k. o. m. o. the north west they were all tailored as you know for the particular geography listen to this horrible all right weighing pro trump nonsense quote. but we are human to be read by both anchors but we are human and sometimes our reporting my fall short if you believe our coverage is unfair please reach out to us by going to k.o.l.o. news dot com and clicking on content concerns we value your comments we will

respond back to you when they have and by the way they're all like that sometimes it's unfair when was the last time c.n.n. was d.n.c. anybody ever you know now i as they it's earnest to invite feedback. and sinclair is being singled out what do you think pedro well first of all the guy is being honest the guy is doing what he's trying to do make you money or bonaire where he doesn't consume us reliable people he doesn't go and see that these things of dick's sosa's thing professionalism so what he's doing is what a company does best trying to make a profit sure because now we have a lot of new things lie fake news is no such thing and fake news is lies and through well trump has weaponized the expression fake news as anything but however factual disagree with them lionel i got to ask you how naive was sinclair which is a t.v. company not to think that this widely circulated mash up would happen and be trade

the local anchors they dropped the ball there. absolutely not they are reveling in this holon you may not believe this but a couple of years ago not everybody knew about r t r g america. because of the coverage people can't wait to get it sinclair is saying we're on the map you also mentioned something this is the part that gets me what you've been in this business a long time since the coolidge administration if i recall correctly and you don't know and i know that when you go to a station there is there is any your contract a provision that says if you lose your voice we have a say it's your overall look if you become disfigured if you if you change this is a big oil long since tomorrow and yet all of a sudden people are jumping on this let me just say this can you imagine you going

on c.n.n. or m.s. d.n.c. and say i want to rag against hillary clinton it will never happen well on that note thank you lionel and pedro gonzales for stepping into the big picture. and that is the big picture if you missed any part of this week's show or if you want to share it you can where you'll find all our shows you tube dot com slash the big picture r.t. and if you see it somewhere else you can also find r t america on direct t.v. channel three two one and dish two eight zero i'm holland cook back next week and on twitter in the meantime question more.

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