join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. on this unique edition of crossfire a new and very important book john mearsheimer the great delusion treaties and international realities it's a real. greetings and sal you take. one of the aftershocks that has rippled through the ivory towers of the washington d.c. elite since the accident leon purpose killing of washington post columnist jamal

shogi by saudi arabia has been the investigation and reevaluation of the massive amounts of saudi kingdom money invested in individuals and entities throughout the u.s. business political and media landscapes yes even vince mcmahon and the w.w. we had to re-evaluate that they still want to go through with their upcoming special event in the kingdom and hipster darling establishment backed by cases now rethinking its connections to that sweet saudi money friday is reporting the biases and ongoing contract with saudi arabian publishing group s r m g to produce a series of for many documentaries aimed at promoting saudi arabia advices legal team is now reviewing the contract with s r m g all of this focus on who's getting paid what to influence who is is having repercussions and is also being conveniently left out of pundit biographies intercepts glenn greenwald. reporting

that last thursday the daily beast published an article about the saudi u.s. relationship with donald trump by david rothkopf the former editor in chief of foreign policy but what the daily beast and later amazon b.c. failed to disclose during rothkopf commentary was that he is in fact a paid lobbyist for the saudi regime is close ally the equally despotic regime of the united arab emirates and last month the roughed up formally registered as a foreign agent for the americas. this is important my friends because in politics and media just like in business money equals influence and now with the magnifying glass turned up to eleven on just how much influence money can buy we must once again start watching the hawks.

like you that i got. with that we. welcome on the watching the hawks i am i robot and joining me today to discuss how important the disclosure of influences in the media business and other businesses is the professor of journalism at george so you perceive chris chambers chris so it's good to be here on. well i mean i'm just want to start off just so people get an idea of this is how important is for a kid is it for a consumer of new is to always be aware of the context behind who or what he is reading or what journalist he's listening to or especially in today's age of kind of this bombardment of news every day that we're getting well you know there has to be full disclosure i mean the story you lead with with that the intercept broke if the daily beast in a mess and b.c.

had just even run you know something on the car you know this guy you know lobbies for the u.a.e. i don't think that would've would have made it an aseptic but it would have helped because you have news by pundit these days news by so-called experts and a lot of them are just paid shills for somebody be it with money at the basis or politics i mean back in the day you had a situation where both president bushes had people that were working for the. hannigan appearing on t.v. and not disclosing that armstrong williams is a friend of dr ben carson the trouble at the f.c.c. for that. and you know where where are those watchdogs now you cannot have an informed public without knowing who these people are you know it's interesting because in the cops case while he is criticizing trump's connections to saudi arabia and trump's kind of fondness for a foreign leader. as he wrote great fondness for foreign leaders even despite some

no murders and human rights abuses except for you know the outward sees appearing out of like a saying are failing to say that he gets significant money from the united arab emirates which is like you know complete buddies with saudi arabian are going in the destruction of yemen together which ok you're criticizing the president which run a good criticism of this president but you yourself get this money so i don't you know like readers need to know these things well that you know and it's not and the host or whoever is doing this is not going to cross that threshold with them because that's not part of the business model is just to let this person talk they might even be paid pundits by that by that or a news organization which makes it even another level of of of of you know almost chicanery at a certain point you know because let's face it i mean the kingdom has its tentacles in a lot of things and i think nowadays you're going to see people have to having to to

disclose what their what their connection is and the kingdom is the king the kingdom is the family the royal family it's not you know the united states of america which could be any number of thousands of officials it's the royal family it's the royal family no one thing is interesting too is this lack of disclosure by news outlets because we're seeing it more and more you mentioned you know back in the bush two era when you had you know the pentagon officials are x. pentagon approaches showing up kind of pushing the war of the depends on street. you know is is this something and columnist newspaper printers well is this an outlier in the industry or is this pretty much common practice now the we just have to suspect that most of the pundits we see are the experts from the institutes or whatever they may be might actually have some kind of hypocrisy with the story or was trailing money behind all this is going to i mean to put you know because you have people funding these think tanks you have people funding universities all departments i mean you know even my university georgetown you know we have to kind

of watch who's giving money but at the same time now you have a situation that i think i'm going to go on a limb and say it's a little strange because you have the kingdom of saudi arabia and these billions of dollars that could that are anywhere from grants for wonderful educational programs to bribes you could call a foundation that somebody sets up they're setting up a foundation with the world bank now at avon trump's prompting for women entrepreneurs you could say all that's so wonderful but one hundred million dollars of oil money that's been used you know basically to shed blood. is it well let me ask you this as someone who comes on programs do you you know look at it like ok here's my history teacher i work at georgetown does that factor for how you choose if factors into account for how i choose and you know luckily in a university setting things are pretty transparent but when you're dealing with the

. saudi arabia you know it's it's there's an irony there it's transparent it isn't i mean it is there it's transparent in that you know that they are throwing around billions of dollars it isn't in that you don't know where it's gone and how it's channel and how it's laundered even so you know but i think that you know u m s n b c the daily beast did their viewers are and readers a big disservice you know it's interesting too is you may. it's kind of more of a it's like news especially with the introduction of cable news it's become more pundit journalism it's go to this person who's the expert they talk for a minute maybe they battle with this person is this kind of. what we're seeing with this deceiving practice of withholding certain elements people black or is that basically because we're become pundit journalism rather than just here's the story make up your own minds rather than have two people oh i doubt it yeah because you know if you have the circus atmosphere of the two people fighting you have this

other kind of business model where you can you can kind of spread the cost around by having people come on either free or for some minor you know honorarium and you know it becomes it's using the basically the sports model the e.s.p.n. model that kind of predated this a little bit where they saw they could get ratings by having you know old old fat x. fleets come on and talk about how a quarterback that they never played under performed and how they would have done it differently and that generates the ratings and that generates the eyeballs and generates the money is that dangerous for delivering the news and informing people oh yeah i mean i think if you're not vetting people properly or if you're using them basically as props as actors then it becomes and that's pretty much what's going on it's not the story that the vetting i mean on fox they don't necessarily vet the pundits they don't people know who they are it's basically the showmanship aspect of it and the conflict and what's interesting is we're you know we've been

talking about kingdom money and things like that but we also can't forget you know i think everybody's kind of guilty of this in a certain sense because you also talk about you've got the influence of corporate advertisers here in the u.s. they have a huge influence on who shows up and who says what and what channel you know is bias and new. you know is it pretty much on avoidable at this point i mean is everybody kind of tainted by some kind of money at this point or or some connections to something that anybody could point to and say yeah it's no good. you could be a purist and say you could even trace it to somebody like n.p.r. because they have corporate sponsors but i think that we get into that situation the problem is that there's not enough professionalism in the in the profession to counter that i mean i keep saying and you know i've been saying or t. for years and you can have a point of view you just have to be fair and the fairness in the professionalism will help temper the point of view a little bit and we just don't have the the fairness and the professionalism because it doesn't fit the business model i mean even fox news as

a business model it might be propaganda for the administration but it still they still they wouldn't be doing it unless they would make billions of dollars if they were big of billions of dollars that they would don't trump it to do that because if they were getting the clicks there is. no it's not personal it's business how do we how do we roll that back is there anything that you look to and say ok you're you know as a consumer of news how do you do this is it really just every time i see someone on t.v. i go home and look up there a background like how does somebody sort through this well i mean you can do that i mean that's part of it i think what what what you need to do though before you do that is get informed of the issues first because that will take care of a lot of that because you can actually sit there and say i will this woman or this guy is coming from some weird angle here that doesn't quite sound right i think that there's enough raw material out there the problem is people just don't have the time to curated it and then who do you trust the person is curating it then you

know it because mark zuckerberg and then to do it you know people run twitter and going to do it you know be so says the good do it so i mean what do you what are you going to do i mean you have to try to find the source to run news and that is extremely tough because it's hard to do the news gathering without a legacy institution around you is independent voices. can do it be to some extent n.p.r. to some extent other outlets. r t you know and maybe i wouldn't even say the b.b.c. but they're a lot more professional than our three networks and our cable giants but they still have a pretty bad point of view sometimes too so i think you have to have a broad. broad appetite a broad diet and look at r.t. and then look at maybe n.p.r. and look at maybe. you know the b.b.c. and just try to try to eat those in small bites and not go to the cafeteria that's

selling candy which is going to be fox c.n.n. and the three network of fast food the fast food. and what's interesting too is you know we got a little bit time left but what's interesting too is i never realized i was expected to cable news to a certain extent you know ok they got it for all these faces up there all day long they've got to have this guy talking to this guy fight but i always assumed a lot more in print journalism that you'd have more disclosure because it's print you have the time and that extra space to put that is what that's what kind of surprised me a little bit and i don't know i'm not going to go as far as say the intercept to say it was something nefarious a lot of times and looks like the daily beast are going to have deadlines and they're going to have they're going to have to beat people to the punch and they're going to recommendations hey just see roscoff last night hey you know who's that ok let's out let's talk to him and a lot of time is just is just rush rush rush rush rush and they don't have the budget that the new york times does the york times does something like this then

yes i would be extremely upset with the beast i don't know i'd be like you know among a search of say a chris i got to thank you for coming on always a good conversation. or so. as we go to break card watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered a facebook and twitter and see our full shows at our dot com coming up our own sean stone discusses the issue of islamophobia in u.s. politics with former republican candidate for michigan house. it was rob wire and artie's latasha sweet as the latest on facebook's new war room against political influence stay tuned to watch and all. the.

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who was. in the ongoing contest death battle of one controversy to rule them all the galactic first amendment insanity surrounding facebook censorship has definitely taken a leap into the pole position in the last few months starting with mark zuckerberg is hilarious display of tech millionaire explaining how twenty first century communication works to the ancient in age in mind u.s. congress to the recent free speech be asco surrounding the censorship of over eight hundred profiles facebook has been taking shots from outside lately so naturally their next step is to build a bunker well actually

a war room yes facebook has built a war room just ahead of the twenty eight ten midterms to handle the alleged fake news and to keep reminding us all that we are not allowed to read our own news feeds and think for ourselves artesian the tosh are sweet as more. according to facebook their new war room is designed to prevent election meddling both in the u.s. and brazil results at least one point three billion accounts have been removed while the company says these were all fake accounts some facebook users are questioning to help these were done actions are but nonetheless the war room is a major part of facebook wanting to repair itself the technology utilizes artificial intelligence that facebook says has been antic behavior we have actually made huge advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning and we've been able to block in the recent six month period one point three billion fake accounts

from for me in addition to the ai there are some twenty teams working to shut down fake accounts and other abuses on facebook this includes fact checkers and even members of the associated press so internally we're monitoring things such as reports from users of election related content that either violates our community standards such as heat speech or voter suppression interestingly enough in addition to the u.s. midterm elections on november sixth brazil's second round of presidential elections takes place on october twenty eighth was brought to our attention that an english translation of this post in portuguese initially both candidates only reveals one name. to facebook regarding this post yesterday as of news time today they have not responded to our inquiry no final word if a spokes war room will be made permanent facebook hardback says it's

a constant arms race and that quotes this is our new normal in los angeles and tweets are. tragically in the game of politics the strategy of fear. the go to move for those who seek power but don't have the patience afforded to earn it paying off irrational play. the rational for years and dumbing down complex issues into simple blame games is the bread and butter of this new politics of fear and nowhere is that more apparent than in the islamophobia that is but on parade throughout the current us political landscape according to a recent study by muslim advocates the legal advocacy advocacy group there has been a sharp increase in anti muslim writer rick from election campaigns in the state and local levels watching the hawks on sean stone recently sat down with former republican candidate for the michigan house of representatives rod wire to discuss the islamophobia if you have seen him state and local lecture. split

there are those in the republican party that are very accepting of muslims in islam and in fact one of my there was a person that was actually a district chair in my state who mentioned that he has several muslims in his family so yes the republican party. is accepting of those over at the islamic faith and muslims but then you also have those on the other side that that want to spread false hatred false information for their own personal gain. so tell us a bit more about that i mean what if you experience directly and. frankly what has been called islam a phobia and the spreading of that mentality. well. in the end part of the party here. there's a couple organizations i don't want to name names because i don't want to give them any publicity but the have been worked very hard to try to silence my voice in fact

my campaign in my district was sabotaged by this group to try to make sure that i did not win the seat in my district i didn't make it past the primary. but these people they know the truth i have actually given the. historical evidence as well as verses in the qur'an the counter dicked some of their or their hatred and their misinformation that they continue to go ahead and spread misinformation and hate across members of the party for their own personal gain. to my understanding some of the refugees that had come over from the civil war in syria that the tourists lee had you know support for some of the various groups that are operating against the assad government coming from you know the obama administration and from the u.s. and other countries basic facilitating those those parties in the in the war it was

called civil war. as syria's descend into this violence and chaos refugees have been accepted into. parts of michigan how has that how is the reaction been let's say from the political side of things do you do you find a lot of rhetoric against you know refugees from countries like syria is that a very hot topic issue. you know a few years ago it was it's kind of cooled down a little bit but actually i will say this our republican governor governor rick snyder was actually very accepting for the syrian refugees in fact he wanted to bring in more syrian refugees i've personally firsthand i've seen what the syrian refugees have done in the city of detroit proper for saying they've taken neighborhoods that were completely rundown but you wouldn't feel safe walking down the sidewalk on in the middle of the day into bright vibrant neighborhoods the

homes that well maybe were it's worth two thousand dollars and it was said you could buy a house for two thousand dollars now are selling for one hundred thirty to one hundred seventy thousand dollars you could walk down those streets at three am in the morning and not have to worry about anything so i think people are starting to see the positive impact that syrians and even other refugees from the middle east are bringing here to the metro detroit region which by the way has one of the largest arabic populations in the country as an insider with the republican party i mean i'm not a say an insider but someone who is a republican. what is your take then on trump's sort of rhetoric and how much has he stoked the overall let's say racism against arabs and other ethnicities including latins and mexicans and also stoked you know fears of islam has that have you seen a change since he has been running and come into. power. well you know that's a good question but you know he i think was pandering to

a particular group and i think he was working to get the groups. that groups support it's a fringe christian group that kind of controls some of the politics of the republican side and you know it would. be a great secret an expose here you know that fringe extremist christian side has pushed out good catholics and has pushed out muslims because my background is as catholicism and the catholics have gone to the democrat party muslims have gone to the democrat party but it's odd because if you look at the party platform about family life and and freedom of religion and limited government and just being able to be who you want to be. and practice your own faith that is the republican platform that fits what catholics and muslims believe in but there is

a push to keep muslims and catholics out of the republican party and kind of leave them without a voice because the democrat party doesn't technically represent muslims or catholics either because they're not the party they're they don't believe in religion and they believe government is god so there is a group huge group of people that just don't seem to have a place that they can call home and one of the things that i'm working with a shot of i'm getting involved in interfaith here in metro detroit fact i was at an interfaith organization yesterday meeting that was all well attended by several hundred people we had catholic priests and we had a mom's from the local mosques here and the local churches here talk about how we can get together and how we can break bread and get to better know one another and coming from a catholic background and being a historian studying islam i've seen how close to follow cism and. islam to one another and in it's amazing how close. are we done today not with

a vision but a sound hawk watchers take a listen. haunting spruiking maybe some call soul what we are actually listening to is the sound of the ross ice shelf in adding article winds whip across its snow dunes and waves and of surface vibrations are created the sound was actually discovered by antarctic scientists by accident when they noticed that the top snow layer on the shelf was by braiding all the time the when these almost nonstop seismic tomes play at a frequency that actually isn't a model to human ears at around five hertz. to the installation of thirty four seismic sensors on the ross ice shelf from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen we

can now hear with the end of the earth. the ends of the earth truly sound like you know it's amazing to watch as it's amazing just what you may hear if you stop to listen that was one of the most strangest sounds i've ever heard but neat and nature that's the sound of nature so listen up sometimes. all right everybody that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are told we can. tell you all i love you i am i robot to keep watching those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. when

lawmakers manufacture can be sentenced to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. from the real news room. after world war two we rule the world we have the most gold we have the sound this

currency we have low interest rates and we were american century ready to go and like the awful good lottery winner that blows it all here we are twenty eighteen having kind of what. was. going to be. a series of bomb scares rocks the us suspicious devices have been sent to bill clinton and barack obama while the c.n.n. office in new york was also evacuated for suspect packer's was delivered to the building. also a solid europe plan it's transatlantic i was kind of that and the u.s. appear unwilling to reconsider weapons sales to saudi arabia that's in the wake of the killing.