moscow and filmmaker and blogger danny schechter says media sensationalism is taking the focus away from finding the real scientific causes behind the bird and fish deaths. when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third said suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know they're calling it. you know for a flock of birds coming up with new catchy words new ad lives and the like obviously it's it's something that intrigues audiences even if there isn't a lot of explanation it seems to be a pattern of this sort of thing where you know alarmist headlines followed by a few examples which then you know lead to sober conclusions about the dramatic events and then there's no follow up for so you know if we really never find out what really happened and this is me in attention of the media maybe even the amnesia of the media the refusal to speak to the people who are most in the know because all of t

be the harbinger of some bigger disaster well let's discuss this story with filmmaker and blog danny schechter danny thanks very much for joining us there from the u.s. now these animal deaths are really quite unusual aren't they what do you make of all of this. well you know i really know how unusual they are but certainly when one set of incidents happens followed by another set followed by a third set suddenly it becomes a trend then it becomes a much bigger story in the media but it's still sort of a mystery it may be that each example is actually specific to a particular local set of circumstances we don't know scientists say they're looking into it they're concerned they're there they're some of more worried than others but certainly it's unusual when you have you know birds dropping from the sky you have bees disappearing you have fish turning up dead by the thousands in chesapeake bay in maryland a lot of this speaks to maybe climate changes and other you know phenomena environmental phenomena that we don't fully understand that is possible you know for things to happen in this world t

blogger and filmmaker danny schechter blames the republicans for failing to ban assault weapons such as the one used in that in the shooting. assault weapons ban which show republicans in two thousand and four laps this was a big battle over gun control and the republicans lined up against a ban on assault weapons that the gun that was actually used in the shooting would have been covered in that ban so actually the failure of having the ban you know made that weapon legally available to this young man there are many cases like this of violence that probably could have been prevented had there been regulations and laws in effect obviously you can't protect everyone from a from a lone nuts as this guy has been called are people who are you know a mental distress and who have access to weapons but clearly more could be done to educate people about these issues that have been a lot of studies about how the coarseness on t.v. encourages you know the sort of bullying that takes place in our schools and the violence in our communities people tend to see and monkey see monkey do usually wha

because all of this is sort of chitta lation for the public and yet it could be a very serious danny schechter from new york coming up in the program tonight the misplaced hope of immigrants in the u.s. . they really have that american dream of coming to the u.s. they know that they've invested in their education and they think that the united states is the place to put. that ambition to work with the greatest possible but in reality getting a green cards only the start of the adventure which ends up making many people long for the life they left back home to report coming up plus. balancing aged mysticism with a modern technology i'm john thomas and coming up on r t we explore the world of the siberian sharman. before those stories though tonight security is being tied to britain's main transport hubs amid fears of an attack by terrorists on european countries authorities say they foiled several serious attempts and that the wave of recent arrests is proof that they're coping. can offer ports next from austria where the e.u.'s asylum policies have come under fire for letting potential terrori

. >> danny schechter, high.oth of you talk a lot about naÏvetÉ but i hear a lot of naÏvetÉ here today. as of power in america is the presidents and certain members of the congress and that's it. there is no military industrial complex and no corporations. there is no wall street finance. there is no interest. there is only issues. there was only individuals. there is no money being spent, lobbying taking place. >> in fairness to roger --. >> what i'm missing here is that obama is not just operating as an individual unto himself but operating in a structural context here which has not been mentioned and the example that i haven't heard referenced here once tonight, today nancy pelosi is finally calling for prosecution on the foreclosure crisis. 14 million american families in or about to be in foreclosure. it is not just a house divided itself but a house cannot stand. in this particular crisis, there has been crying on wall street and there is ben financial fraud. that is massive and nobody's talking about it. s