and earlier i spoke to journalist and political contributor david seaman on his point of view of the campaign coverage we've been seeing in the media take a listen. sure first of all thanks for having me on and covering this really i haven't seen anything like this before where one candidate is pretty much given a free pass and i'm talking about mitt romney of course the story will come out about him or his financial ties and it just basically disappears the next day goes no further than the blogosphere and then on the other hand as you were saying in the last piece. ron paul and even governor buddy roemer who's also running for president are not getting much coverage and when they do it tends to be negative and so we just took a lock at mainstream media this trend of literally embedding their reporters with candidates how do you think this practice and other journalism practices a fax campaign coverage so when you embed a journalist in a war zone for example that has some very legitimate journalistic uses because you have somebody on the ground with a camera who can speak to soldier

citizens david seaman journalist and host of the el show joins us now hi there david so the pentagon now says they can respond to cyber attacks with physical attacks in other words you messed with our cyber security bombing you is an option how do you feel about this first of all thanks for having me back on the show liz i think the term cyber terrorism is a real misnomer it's something to get the sheeple behind this ridiculous idea that you fight hackers with physical force with drones that drop bombs and with hit squads that literally come into your apartment and could potentially execute you in the middle of the night it's such a ridiculous response to what amounts to defacing government agency websites if you take down a government agencies website that is not terrorism you're not killing anybody you're not harming anybody you're creating an inconvenience to be sure and it's definitely a criminal activity but it is not terrorism and the same applies to you know leaked documents that surface online on some of these download networks that we're we're seeing around the world things

and that was journalist and political contributor david seaman. well it's an issue the occupy movement has brought a voice to and one we highlight here at r t the sad tale of two america but the income inequality gap growing in the middle class dwindling the american dream for many is dying and perhaps it's a new york city where this tale can best be told just miles away from the wealthy family jarius lifestyles manhattan offers is the nation's poorest district artie's on a stasia churkin and takes us to the bronx and gives us a glimpse into the daily struggles americans face there. welcome to the south bronx. where feeding garbage a daily fight for dignity it is the poorest district in america but yet just a twenty minute ride from the wealth of manhattan this is the stop for those whose life is largely a struggle a staggering quarter of a million people are living below the poverty line right here for many it's a tough life from the get go every second child in the area lives in poverty mothers like recently unemployed asia are livid is ridiculo

show david seaman. well here in the u.s. there is a lot of fear of iran and its nuclear program and if you listen to the mass media politicians ad g.o.p. presidential candidates it's not hard to understand why that's because a lot of fear mongering rhetoric has been heating up the airwaves recently this despite top military leaders saying iran does not have a nuclear bomb and has not decided to pursue making one so are these just scare tactics and are the fears being blown out of proportion artie's marina porn i explores how media coverage could be helping and the push for war with iran. kind of shadow war now being waged by iran around the world in the us capital of media and message it one particular story a unilateral strike keeps spinning round and round iran could attack the united states in a much more fear some way iran a hypothetical national security threat growing more dangerous by the day not only that new york could eventually be on iran to list we have to assume that hezbollah would be the proxy for iran well ca

show david seaman. and keeping up on this issue of cyber security twitter is being called to the stand prosecutors in new york believe one man's tweets could be considered disorderly conduct now the man was accused he was one of hundreds accused of. being one of the protesters there in the occupy wall street movement over there on the brooklyn bridge back in october protesters say they were practicing their right to free speech police say they were blocking traffic earlier today we spoke with the man whose tweets are causing all this controversy malcolm harris. well when i saw the email i thought it was a scam of some sort of these scammers use requests for twitter passwords all the time but when i looked a little closer i saw it was it was a legitimate subpoenas forwarded to me i was shocked surprised it was hilarious and only a little bit scary at the same time and why are tweets being called to testify well i was part of the group along with over seven hundred other people arrested on the brooklyn br