at a time to get some industry insight life to journalist and broadcaster neil clark neil welcome what straightening this decline in trust. it's interesting isn't it that the cutoff point seems to be 2015 or 2015 for the left certainly the left was reasonably satisfied with a meeting 2015 then of course we had jeremy calling coming into becoming the leader of the labor party and there's no doubt at all why any objective assessment media betrayal of corgan was almost consistently hostile and very very critical without much balance so i think that's one of the reasons to explain why the left if you like of both the trust of the media from the left as well on and the right to the political right to feels probably aggrieved over rex it covers the coverage last year about the brics they go she a sions etc so there is this problem and i think looking deeper the core issue union is the way the news has been presented and promoted the blurring between news and views has been blurred basically and we saw a good example of that a few weeks ago when emily made list the percent of the news not pro

well for more on this and i'm joined by journalists neil clark thank you for joining us for the make up like. what if 6 it's very bad news isn't it in the sense that as you just said on your lead in a story that the report the region in the region they stated were actually in correct saying they're taking on t 7 r 2 channels off because of the leadership of r.t. by certain individuals who isn't even the head of r.t. so i should very much hope that the that r.t. the the leadership of artsy takes full legal challenge to the latvian will caution with or it is on this and it's not just the the issue is that latvia has banned these channels it's what latvia is also doing latvia is actually encouraging urging other european nations to follow its own example and that of course really can't be allowed because it's basically banning r.t. for incorrect reason and i would hope that a strong legal challenge is made against the not being brokaw civil authorities on this all male some say this is down to russia 5 here in the west particularly in the baltic nations to the same tradition that oh abs

the paper old media outlets stunts with with visas and i think that's that's the core issue here neil clark finishing off about to report. for this news hour we're about to cross to some more great programs though in moments and i'll be back with all the updates affecting your world today in about 30 by for. you cannot be both with yeah you're right. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led.

contributor john gone to nor so with the journalist neil clark. i think the problem with the di from the b.b.c. campaign is it's too broad brush there are issues with parts of the b.b.c. programming of particular the news and current affairs but i think what will limit that campaign is the fact that people go to the b.b.c. not just for using try to 1st they go that fast for they watch football they watch weather reports and people are saying look if we don't have the b.b.c. where are we going to go for this stuff what i want to seize the b.b.c. to change i think we need change in the b.b.c. people accuse the b.b.c. political bias i think the vice is basically what one could call the dominant orthodoxy is extreme sectors of the left accuse it of being right wing of the rockies it being left wing but in fact it's it's kind of blairite blairite camera night kind of politics seems to dominate the b.b.c. many people myself included on the breakfast so i do believe that the b.b.c. was very biased in its coverage and this is now playing out in the black

>> clark: by "safer," what i mean is that it's going to be a much more secure outcome. >> neil albrechtson voting should not have happened in the state of wisconsin on april 7. it was dangerous. it was reckless. >> whitaker: neil albrecht is head of milwaukee's election commission. he tus scared so many poll workers, half of them over age 60, he could man only five polling places. he usually has 180. americans take great pride in our democratic system; did that system suffer on april 7? >> albrecht: it suffered greatly. a lot of people in the state of wisconsin had to choose between their health or casting a ballot. i don't believe that is a good representation of democracy. >> whitaker: the wisconsin health department reported 71 people tested positive for covid-19 after voting or working at the polls, but can't say definitively that was the cause. to avoid the virus, more wisconsin voters cast absentee ballots in the primary than ever before. >> albrecht: it was about an 800% request in absentee ballots. >> whitaker: did i hear you correctly? you had requests for eight times more abse

discussion tonight is professor neil joseph, the founding director of the center for the study of race and democracy at the university of texas, austin. and kristin clark, the executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. professor joseph, let me begin with you because i want us to consider with president kennedy on this very day in 1963 in what turned out to be the last year of his life addressing the issues that are before us today that the president of the united states failed to address in your state of texas today. it's an indication of how long we have been at this and how much ground we have not covered in the progress we wish we had made. >> absolutely, lawrence. i think it's a great comparison between what happened on june 11th, 1963 and today because i have argued and i have written before that that's president kennedy's finest moment. and i think as time proceeds, he's going to get more credit for that speech. but the revolution that he talked about in 1963 was similar to what we have experienced in the last two weeks. i'd say what we have experienced in the last two weeks has more white involvement. but remember th