in the capacity that i do because they are failing so hard but i do see journalism practiced however the practices i see are often the negative types of practices the employing propaganda techniques word associations and stuff like that recently on the show where for the jimmy door show c.n.n. smeared us and then used a very very typical propaganda technique and the smear they associated us with other with other types of outlets that was it was not in accurate association at all but they did that it's an intentional thing when you do that it's a certain type of grouping and of course it's a wide wide net so is there some are there some diamonds in the rough sure you know you've got to look for it it's not on page one quote unquote you got to dig for it but it is there but as a whole they're not talking about the things that reflect with the average

americans at all i mean there's harvard studies dedicated that stuff where they spend about seventy five percent of the time talking about russia or something like that that's an important issue to about six percent of the population say percent so they're not it's kind of they're all done to the point and they're on the east coast ok that's it and that's in washington d.c. here you know let me go let me go to rob here i mean i think all of you are familiar with i certainly know my audience is jordan peterson i think is a very interesting case where i've seen cable news it was n.b.c. and then the new york times i mean what how much it jobs they do again you can disagree with his approach and in some of the things he has to say i would very much appreciate what he's doing and but the again we're going to have to employ the lionel terminology here the old mainstream move put it that way legacy media they really just go after that guy in n.b.c. and the new york times. i have i have this strong feeling they never watched one of

his videos ok. seriously but i mean that i'm getting into this ideological bent here i mean because someone like jordan peterson is really going against the current that's in the new or the old mainstream media and they really go after him i don't know if you know what i'm talking about go ahead robert. well one of the things that that i find really questionable with even a big paper like the new york times is and i look at this is probably budgetary problems a budgetary problem is do they have the money to do fact checking anymore are they not care i've written to the times about some erroneous stories that they've had where it just seems to me nobody does due diligence anymore when i wrote from time incorporated for the various books if i were when i wrote something i had an editor researcher calling me asking me ok tell me what you have in your notes and if it wasn't sufficient it wasn't going in the story and now we seem to write more about

our feelings than we do about our facts ok i mean and certainly on telling me when i think it would get an issue let me go to line allow last forty seconds a lot of journalists local journalists write about their mistakes later ok go ahead lionel forty seconds before we go to the break a perfect example of this recently there was a study about the president allegedly calling allegedly calling immigrants or dreamers animals when in fact he referred to m s thirteen now because the media the media today this is archaic ossified media is a runaway train that you have to feed constantly by virtue of the fact that you can correct yourself that breaking news can be correct they jumped with this idea that he referred to immigrants as being animals now before anybody knew it it was immediately repeated replicated and then later on with the idea that we can correct it later on when you had a deadline when somebody had to yell stop the presses it meant something in this rob says there is no fact testing. ok if it was a p.d. a.p.

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welcome back to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing media wars. ok let's go back to ron in los angeles. i'm like many other people could be very critical on how president. handles himself or the rhetorical e how he deals with the press i think all that's fair game most importantly it should be about policy but it seems to me that the the the legacy media the cable stations again with the exception of fox to some extent they're actually imitating him if he can break all the rules then why can't we but at the end of the day the media loses because you know trump isn't held he doesn't say i'm a man of virtue that he's not

a man of great values ok the american people that voted for him didn't vote for a choir boy but it seems to me that the the the legacy media they feel that they have the right to imitate donald trump and i think that it's a huge disservice to the public go ahead ron it is a huge disservice to the public yes however i would offer the alternative i don't think the media is losing i think the american people are. loosing. i think that i think that the media at the end of the day really likes trump they appreciate the fact that he gives them click bait that he gives them the soundbites you know because he doesn't talk very diplomatically and they kind of help him get elected in the first place so they run with these little tidbits and you know it's not just the media working alone i would argue that the politicians really help out especially because the democratic party they have really no platform and they have no ideas so all they can really do is say hey we're not trump and trump's really

bad and here's another soundbite and it's very very frustrating especially as somebody on the left so what i like to do is when people were complaining about the latest for instance with the the animal statement i read we read tweet them all and i'd be like you know what if you were tired you wouldn't have to listen to him anymore just a suggestion. oh robby it seems like it's his virtues signaling that's what i get what i get from the the the old mainstream media the legacy media it's really does you know who's virtuous and all of course the president united states has no virtue so the rest of us how that i can think that to a journalism was supposed to be about ok and i think that's one of the things that is really pulling everything down i mean there's so many important issues here of you know the economy is booming i don't really think it's booming it's booming for the for the wealthy and for the financial financially well to do and when there's

a need to be much more a microscope on that and also the the animals issue of immigration has to be talked about in a civil way it's something that everyone wants but no it's virtues signaling you know let's look after the caravan in mexico ok for me this is this is a dead end they're playing they're doing a complete disservice to the public go ahead bob. well it's incumbent upon the president and his white house to function the way it's supposed to i don't believe we even have a new communications director i understand how the white house works and a communications director is supposed to liaise with the other people on the comms team at the white house who then in turn work with their press counterparts in the press pool i don't think anything goes on there in terms of the white house conveying the white house and the president's policies and so there and you have something there is just a stagnation and an inertia so the press pool sits around twiddling their thumbs going what are we going to do today and there's got to be

a dynamic there really don't you think but don't you think rob that a lot of people who are in the press pool there they don't really want they don't see this white house as being legitimate i mean they don't they don't talk to their their counterparts in the white house as equals because they look down upon them ok i mean you exceed in their faces a at the white house press gatherings you could see the contempt they have ok and i know you're laughing but i think it's really true i mean they are birch us ok that's but that's not what politics is really all about and that's what and that's not what people voted for go ahead like if you know if i could did this may be rather self aggrandizing in a weird way but let me just say what we're doing right now first of all the amount of time than any of us have had to discuss an idea could not exist in the old mainstream media could not by by virtue of time number two there are no advertisers here so there's nobody limiting what we say number three none of us gets any kind

of a list from the producer ahead of time to try to ferret out ferret exactly what we're going to say to limit what we're going to say to contain domestic this is with all that's going on with russian media and foreign agents the most free form and i know it's. that being gratuitous but if the old mainstream media tried that if somebody if any of the particular hacks you want to mention said you know what today we're going to try is it me i'm going to have somebody who's really good perhaps combative and i'm not going to tell the party line but i'm going to really provide a chance for people to come forward and not exclude them through filtration it might help but they can't because they are hollywood and entertainment is become almost the entertainment section of the military industrial complex a deep state depending on whatever you want to call it this is an agenda and now with obama going to netflix signing a development deal do you have any idea what that means this is apparatchik agit

prop nonsense and people see through it and they're going to rebound they don't understand the they've lost the war and the older times are done with it and people are going to rebound ok but you know let's be fair here i mean on a program no no no no no i will be i mean in time out i'm very critical of like c.n.n. and most n.b.c. but. you know you're a progressive let's talk about fox here i mean i like i like tucker carlson very much i'm very open about that but then i watch hannity and i just think that's just you know the white house that's a white house press operation i mean and it's transparently an extension of the white house and i think that that is not journalism i know sean hannity is a partisan person he wears his stripes on his on his sleeves there but at the same time you get that you get the feeling there is real collusion there what do you think ron well i think hyper partisanship and kind of like that type of punditry

is just a quick paycheck and it's always kind of been in style who's the number one host right now rachel maddow rachel maddow is just the corporates left i mean because she's she's not left at all but she's kind of the corporate media version of the left response to a xan hannity shanahan and he was number one when obama was in office. well she's number one now because trumps in office and it's giving people the these tribal little groups to get into and that's how we go about our business and i would also say you know the white house is in total disarray yes that's true there's more turnover than a third party pyramid scheme yes that's true however the media is no better at all i mean when the media was told to turn off their cameras there was not one person in that room in that press briefing room that had the courage to say no i'm not turning off my camera because this is my job my employer is very powerful and i'm

not turning my camera off what are you going to do arrest me that story all go viral go ahead they all said yes sir or madam i'll turn my camera off that's not journalism that's access journalism that cinco fance it's nonsense and it's garbage and it's got to stop a full disclaimer here i am going to be submitting a pilot to barack obama's netflix company because i am in show business and with them i don't have to worry about them changing anything ok will you sign me up if you get the gig ok i'll certainly watch it there you know rob you know i've often thought of looking at the the white house briefings is that these people have already written their article and they're just looking for a soundbite to throw in the they really stood. for the powers that be and again you know when i look at the quality in the aptitude of the questions that are being asked i just wonder. is this to see you know is this for what it was that two we had classes for people that there was advanced placement for smart people and then

what was the other classes for the slow people don't remember the derm right now but i mean it's these people are challenge did to lecture early they mean they really are challenge intellectually and if you ask a bad question you're going to get a bad answer hasn't anyone figured that out yet go ahead. one of the things that i find really idiotic that nobody is consistently calling out is watch a press conference with sarah huckabee sanders i'm not a fan of hers but a reporter will raise their hand and say so isn't it true the president a lot trump is lying about blah blah blah that in the course he's going to say no and then they go oh my god she's alarmed through what i what are they expect her to say so i mean how can you compel me to admit. something to you when the american people the whole world god and everybody else is in every universe it's

just it's like it's like the idiotic sportscaster that's like did you feel bad when you struck out and lost the world series yet what do you have and i was happy because i had money bet on the game i'm going to disney world to. call it out and i'm doing it right now ok lionel one of the things that we're absolutely running out of time and i want to take sure you have plenty of time to finish up but one of the things that trump lives you know you know well first of all politicians lie all the time and my senses and it's not to defend the president because he said things that i'm very strongly disagree with but you know he's saying something he's saying something that somebody disagrees with this would mean it's a lie and i don't understand this true but people are constantly going after that because if you use that level of analysis then i'm right in the made in the mainstream media all the networks that they're lying all the time as well so if it's the same standard go ahead i know what that's like going to a spelling bee and somebody gets it wrong and you say you're lying it's a not you shouted. but here's the thing is happening right now this is the marker

right now it's clear what you're doing is when somebody goes back when it's a tapper comes back and asks as ron says perhaps the most stupid question in the history of mankind they don't say hey jake that was the most stupid question in the history of mankind he said you see how many lights you got this is reaching this is gone viral but it's stupid no said. thing is stupid our numbers are up because that's what it is this is a front what they do is what something they can refer to later because what's happened is they don't realize it they are a truck this is beyond c d this is like to let go of the they're living in the past and they don't know what a star has burned out millions of years ago they're the last ones to be told ok line i'm going to give you the last ten seconds because you're so eloquent give us a word we need to look up in the pits are us go ahead. the best one is mockingbird media and mockingbird when you refer to operation mockingbird and it refers to what is still in effect in effect an attempt by the cia to basically to have repeated

hers as you alluded to and not reporters that simple rip and that's mashed rocky peter is going to end on that note repeaters here were not repeaters on cross not many thanks and i guess the new york and in los angeles and thanks to our viewers for viewers watching us here to see you next time remember. was. in some american cities the police have built themselves cling to refutation of people who walk on the streets of the united states who are at risk from the very

people who are supposed to protect that were people are no more afraid of the police than of a criminal so. you can see something happening and this is like i don't want to call the cops let that happen resident call the cops in those young black men lose their lives chasing the with their fingers on the trigger you never know better safe than sorry i don't know that someone else is going to. get unfortunately around and around here we end up killing our guns on the dance told from so much because of this place to.

i. the woman poisoned in the u.k. alongside a double agent father gives her first media interview since the attack she says a life's been turned upside down and that she wants to return to russia. north korea gears up to close its only nuclear site as part of a bargain with the u.s. we've been given as a station rare access in our correspondent reporting back on route to that. is you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities here those who go to north

korea. the u.s. ambassador to israel controversially poses with an altered photo of jerusalem with one of the most sacred muslim sites removed and replaced by a jewish place of worship. but germany admits that close to two thousand far right extremists there may be in legal possession of a firearm. a good morning just after one am here in moscow you're watching r.t. live with me kevin oh and thank you for tuning to us first then we begin with the developments from the u.k. last evening where you. appeared in the media for the first time since she was poisoned along with her father the former russian double agent sort of gay script they were found on conscious park bench in the english city

a soulsby on the fourth of march more details from a london correspondent and it is said. now in this particular media appearance she does give a statement to reuters news agency of an undisclosed location in london so her whereabouts are being kept under wraps and she appears to make a brief statement in russian which then she provides in written form in both russian and english to waiters and in the statement among other things she says that she is going to eventually be returning to her homeland of russia but not quite yet as reasonable a bit as a child to come to terms with the devastating changes thrust upon me both physically and emotionally i take one day at a time and want to help care for my dad to his full recovery in the longer term i hope to return home to my country well paul importantly had also said that her recovery had been slow and extremely painful and that she for now will not be turning to the services of the russian embassy again as

a reminder this has been something that russian authorities had offered over and over again to the script palls any kind of cooperation or being able to get access to them which according to russia they should have been able to do given the conventions that exist on matters on this issue but there's not much else that she did say she only made that very brief statement and then did not answer any questions on camera this is definitely quite a development since this became the first media appearance that yulia script hall has made ever since that poisoning took place on march fourth when this whole saga unraveled created creating a massive ground between the u.k. and russia and of course this was the first time we're seeing a video of. her father sergei is also currently out of the hospital so now the next step we should be expecting is some kind of statements or information or appearance that he could possibly be making next. to tell you straight about it

mito russia's foreign ministry has been looking to reassure you they say they've repeatedly attempted to get in touch with her. we want u.s. crew partner now there wasn't a day that the russian foreign ministry the russian abas in london didn't try to contact her the main goal was to ensure she's not being kept against her well there it wasn't another person posing as her to get firsthand information about her condition and her father's. other big news tonight north korea of course gearing up to close its nuclear test site in the far north of the country the far north east have been six nuclear bomb tests there since two thousand and six which have been well documented carried out inside the mountain it's the world's last officially active nuclear test site so what's planned well north korea describes how this site is going to be demoed dismantled they say for one they're going to be carrying out a controlled explosions to collapse the tunnels there they hope that will result in the entrance points being blocked off as well after that the above ground facilities they hope will be destroyed as well in the plan now some changes have

already been observed by experts compare and contrast these satellite images taken in april and then earlier this month seems buildings have been demolished together with a railway line r.t.c. goes down offers among every limited group of international journalists have been invited along here to see what's going on they've set out on a really arduous journey to get finally to this nuclear facility early on a frame someone very strong but want to thank you don't even know that the nation where we go we don't may. so frail the world but what means we have compartments to and in that we've noticed that all we know are such why you don't shut off. from anyone in all of that phrase. yeah journalist currently on board the train have got an eleven hour trip then they've been given strict instructions as he goes just been said not to open those blinds then to get to the remote mountain area crews will spend several hours

traveling by bus and then finally an hour on foot to the site itself before boarding the train igor centers his report documenting its long journey from china to north korea's one son to start with. we're in the beijing international airport and as you can see behind me we're being greeted like celebrities you have those who go to north korea we've been here for the past couple of days and all journalists spots of this press tour have been amassed in the chinese capital because that's where we got our visas that's what we where we got our tickets and now we will be proceeding to check in to our flights the films are the windows that we're waiting for the personnel and so i'll be signing off for you hopefully greeting you from north korea itself next time so this is the choreo flights we will be taking to get inside north korea thing is we aren't even exactly sure as to where exactly we're headed because according to our

media to documents we're going to the southern port city of one sound but according to our boarding passes we're headed to the north korean capital pyongyang so i guess annoyed the option but to find out on board of the place. at the same time they seem to think you know we're going to pyongyang or two once on. one time thank you. so there are roughly twenty john that's here on this plane and so as we're going to one son i just want to get with clips of what's going on on board would be given out press releases like this one for example the pyongyang times it's mostly about politics but also features pieces like recipes for this rice and month or cake and also we've been given at this very very carl's colorful kolby a magazine which features everything from the latest one as to what's been going on like in the life of him to the supreme leader of north korea but also power if each

itself upon around so young and the like to pieces like the ones for example the bullets will be beat. so you walk out of any airport what's the first thing you expect to see it's a bustling crowd of people pushing and shoving it's the taxi drivers offering their often overpriced services well check this out nothing of this sort here it's just an empty parking lot and three buses that will take us to the city. this is a huge world. where. you

start to notice. me tell me that you're following her on twitter where he's posting details and photos from the reclusive country whenever possible find out what kind of food you might expect in north korea and they'd have a look around the local hotels there to see what they would like what they are rather. encourage and move on to do next this america's ambassador to israel has come in for criticism after he was seen posing with a rather controversial gift david friedman was presented with a photograph of one of the most sacred places in jerusalem with the image had been altered it seems to show the jewish third temple on the site where the islamic the dome of the rock is currently situated the third temple is a biblical reference to a new place of worship to replace an ancient one which was destroyed in the u.s. embassies asked for an apology saying the envoy was unaware that he was being given

a doctored picture the rage is still reeling from deadly protests against the relocation of the embassy to jerusalem on a week ago is our middle east correspondent paula slee. the photograph immediately sparked fierce criticism from the muslim world sabah erica who is the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization the p.l.o. there's a friedman expressed to quote rude and hypocritical behavior you then have the tb who is an arab israeli law maker and comes from the israeli arab dominated political alliance called the joint let's and he has responded to the photographs by saying that this madman wants to bring peace a good thing you didn't put the embassy there at the same time we're hearing that the american ambassador has apologized friedman was not the word of the image thrust in front of him when the photo was taken he was deeply disappointed that anyone would take advantage of his visit to create controversy the u.s. pulled.