today i have one of our biggest guests to date the legendary journalist author and radio host robert scheer his career spans 50 years he started a ramparts magazine interviewed every president from richard nixon all the way through bill clinton as author best selling books spent nearly 30 years producing award winning journalism for the l.a. times and the san francisco chronicle and his various radio shows have been syndicated around the globe he also founded and headed the award winning site truthdig and later in the show now only mcgill will also show us the hidden history of the pledge of allegiance but 1st here's my talk with legendary journalist robert scheer robert scheer it's an honor to have you on the show great to be here you are truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine in the l.a. times the nation true dig radio shows things have changed a lot over the years in some ways they're actually fewer gate keepers then when you started and you know anyone can post articles online and ostensibly get them seen by the world but on the other hand the mainstream media is now o

robert scheer it's an honor to have you on the show. great to be here yet you've added a truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine and the l.a. times the nation truthdig radio shows they have saved a lot over the years in some ways they're actually fewer gatekeepers then when you started and you know anyone can post articles online and ostensibly get them seen by the world but on the other hand the mainstream media is now owned by just a handful of massive corporations how do you feel journalism and news media have changed over the course of your career is it better or worse we should not under and underestimate the worse at least there used to be something about attracting eyeballs or having readers and so when i was at the l a times it wasn't easy to fire me because there were lots of people want to read me so there was a marketplace restraint that is gone now they don't need eyeballs with you targeted advertising with the surveillance that is the norm to the internet they can get all the readers of the new york times w

robert scheer it's an honor to have you on the show. great to be here you've added a truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine the l.a. times the nation true deg radio shows things have changed a lot over the years in some ways there are actually fewer gatekeepers then when you started and you know anyone can post articles online and ostensibly get them seen by the world but on the other hand the mainstream media is now owned by just a handful of massive corporations how do you feel journalism and news media have changed over the course of your career is it better or worse we should not under and underestimate the worse at least there used to be something about attracting eyeballs or having readers and so when i was at the l a times it wasn't easy to fire me because there were lots of people want to read me so there was a marketplace restraint that is gone.

today i have one of our biggest guests to date the legendary journalist author and radio host robert scheer his career spans 50 years he started a ramparts magazine interviewed every president from richard nixon all the way through bill clinton as author best selling books spent nearly 30 years producing award winning journalism for the l.a. times and the san francisco chronicle and yet.

she is the united nations special robert scheer on racism racial discrimination zina phobia and related intolerance and she joins me tonight from los angeles tonight it's good to have you on the program you know we've seen a lot in the last 2 weeks when when you consider the protests that we've seen in the u.s. and here in europe you also have to include the scenes of peaceful protesters who were cleared out by armed police near the white house last week i mean there have been scenes of looting and violence as well where does all of this leave you as you look towards the future for our planet. thanks so much for having me brant and i think it's very important that you're covering this really important topic i think the thing that stands out the most to me right now is that we're at an important turning point nationally in the united states but even globally in terms of how we talk about and even understand systemic racism as a general matter and then specifically in encounters with law enforcement so what you're seeing is a shift in the debate away from thinking that the issue is a few

today i have one of our biggest guests to date the legendary journalist author and radio host robert scheer his career spans 50 years he started a ramparts magazine interviewed every president from richard nixon all the way through bill clinton as author best selling books spent nearly 30 years producing award winning journalism for the l.a. times and the san francisco chronicle and his various radio shows have been syndicated around the globe he also founded and headed the award winning site truthdig and later in the show now only mcgill will also show us the hidden history of the pledge of allegiance but 1st here's my talk with legendary journalist.