don't think you can just assert it and that was filmmaker and blogger at news dissected dot org danny schechter now from the media possibly pushing revolutions we don't know to lawyers and activists pushing pornography you heard me right there saying pornography and guess where public libraries they're arguing in many libraries perusing porn is your constitutional right your right to be an american to watch porn are saying that is not the answer to that so that's how that's working out new york. a library a place of serenity and peaceful contemplation but if only these walls could talk. must have been filling the silence rooms browsing porn online in public libraries is legal in the us. i'm not really sure what to think i mean i do believe that people have the right to do whatever they want but at the same time the library also has the right to do or not to do whatever they want to hide why not provide a little bit service they want. and some of these services are causing a public outcry locally across america internet policies of libraries need to for one thing libraries do is put a ban on for

things is the maker and blogger at newsday sector dot org who dissects all of this for his job danny schechter thanks for being here danny so first of all do you do you yes or no do you think that the mainstream media has been too one sided its coverage of syria. well you know like in many other conflicts the coverage tends to reflect the often the political outlook of the countries you know for whom you know the t.v. networks work i mean the countries in the gulf area some of them have very good relations with syria so the coverage hasn't been as sharp as it has let's say in other countries and the the question of armed groups is not you know definite on one side or the other there are have been some armed groups there there are reports of headquarters of the bass party being burned down and the like so you know that gives credence to certain syrian claims but in the absence of having journalists there from around the world to investigate all of this to look into it the assumption is that the syrian government is lying which it may well be but what does a station let's say like a network like

proposed draft resolution and you know it's going to council critical syria and author and blogger danny schechter says it's not right you jump to conclusions without clear evidence of what's happening in syria. like in many other conflicts the coverage tension reflected the often the political outlook of the country for whom the t.v. networks work and the question now. armed groups is not definitely on one side or the other there are have been some armed groups there there are reports of headquarters of the basque already being burned down and the like so that gives credence to certain syrian claims but in the absence of having journalists there from around the world to investigate all of this to look into where the coverage of these conflicts has been so poor and many many countries that you know you have to kind of not rely on just t.v. images you have to also look at social media you have to repress accounts in some cases press reports differ from country to country about the very same incident so i think you just have to be suspicious and not jump to conclusions because a lot of what you're w

nene's i spoke with someone with a little experience in this field the news dissect or himself danny schechter to start off i asked him and this is the price of being accepted by the white house and state department that you have to adjust your coverage here's the take. you know for us of all let me say and acknowledge that i write for the al-jazeera website so i'm not a spokesman for the channel and i'm not claiming to be but i think this story is a little off kilter here you know the united states government tries to pressure influence and otherwise put content on to every channel in the world they have a twenty four hour monitoring apparatus which watches t.v. stations everywhere and they try to get the american government approved message out and they try to get other messages off the air messages they don't like so of course particularly during the war they were very vigilant about trying to stop all anti-war and critical coverage and al-jazeera came into some criticism there and i'm sure that they came into criticism through the protests to the government of qatar which pays a lot of the

experience reading between the media alliance he is filmmaker and blogger and news director dot org danny schechter and in the course of our conversation i asked about media bias specifically with al-jazeera and their coverage of libya a recent report took aim at congressman dennis kucinich that they ran they titled it at least online secret files u.s. officials aided gadhafi and in a report al-jazeera alleges they could senate she's been a vocal critic of the u.s. intervention in libya well they allege that he was actively aiding gadhafi and his regime they cited a document that they found in a libyan officials office so my question to danny is was this a smear piece well here's what he said. i think a copy of a report of because synergise views on the conflict which were very critical of president obama for going in without congressional support into libya for acting in ways that were perceived as unconstitutional not just play because senate. republican says well that doesn't constitute direct support for khadafy it can be spun that way i don't know that would be what happened but i haven't hear