still ahead here on r t the ratings for m s n b c has fallen in recent months the network's growing focus on talking heads has sent viewers elsewhere a look at their rating challenges when we come back. the same story doesn't make good news no thought no poppy food some tough questions. in a month filled with breaking news m.s.m. b c's ratings continue their nosedive the may ratings were the lowest the network is seen in four years and it's even worse for their prime time lineup which is at its low in six years will the left of center news channel struggled to keep up with its competitors and is now right for among other major networks it was taken over by c.n.n. for the second month in a row and breaking news and now lags h l n which spent a month covering the jodi arias trial critics over him s m b c argue that they're out of touch and champion french politics an anecdotal commentary over hard news or is it the viewer as a whole who's just more interested in salacious content to discuss this with me what's bringing him s n b c down i was joined earlier by georgetown university journalis

and michelle at the head table it's not just fox it's every corporate news entity from reuters to m s n b c but the costly dinner isn't the most absurd part of all of this the lavish parties hosted by these same media organizations that according to the washington post will shell out as much as two hundred thousand dollars each to entertain their of the guest list that's right well they're laying people off in droves and cutting corners and journalistic integrity they're dropping mad g.'s to spend a night can you believe that the rich and famous and of course these mainstream bashes wouldn't be nearly as good without the financial backing of their corporate sponsors for example and it's n.b.c.'s party was funded by starbucks smart water and mercedes benz and d.c.'s premier publication politico posted an event featuring representatives from corporations like eighteen bank of america coca-cola chevron goldman sachs contractor northrop grumman but the most unusual gathering of them all has to be the atlantic publishers' pre-dinner party which hosted an exclusive preview of a national gallery o

well there are precious few things in the world that could have fox news m m s n b c unite except when it comes to the protection of the fourth estate so naturally media outlets band together to blast both the u.s. justice department as well as the obama administration for going after the associated press as phone records are to correspondent liz wahl takes a look at the backlash that the administration is facing as a result of this caesar of phone records. amid the justice department scandal perhaps more than ever before journalists and citizens are raising questions over the freedom of the media to get news and talk to sources in private while details remain murky there are very clear guidelines when it comes to the justice department getting subpoenas of the news media because our standards the d.o.j. sets for itself let's take a look at them now. according to the rules the investigation must be as narrowly drawn as possible as of now the a.p. isn't convinced that this is the case that all the facts point to the opposite we know now that the justice department traced incoming and ou

and michelle at the head table it's not just fox it's every corporate news entity from reuters to m s n b c but the costly dinner isn't the most absurd part of all of this the lavish parties hosted by these same media organizations that according to the washington post will shell out as much as two hundred thousand dollars each to entertain their of the guest list that's right well they're laying people off in droves and cutting corners and journalistic integrity they're dropping mad g.'s to spend a night couldn't believe that the rich and famous and of course these mainstream bashes wouldn't be nearly as good without the financial backing of their corporate sponsors for example and this n.b.c.'s party was funded by starbucks smart water and mercedes benz and d.c.'s premier publication politico posted an event featuring representatives from corporations like eighteen t. bank of america coca-cola chevron goldman sachs and defense contractor northrop grumman but the most unusual gathering of them all has to be the atlantic publishers pre-dinner party which hosted an exclusive preview of a nat

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know if you were balls back around the public sector well in a month filled with breaking news m s n b c's ratings continued their nosedive the may ratings were the lowest the network had seen in four years and it's even worse for the primetime lineup which is at a six year low. the left of center news channel struggled to keep up with its competitors and is now ranked fourth among the major networks it was taken over by c.n.n. for the second month in a row and breaking news which now lags h l n which spent a month covering the jodi arias trial critics of m.s.m. b.c. argue that they're out of touch and that they champion french politics and anecdotal commentary over hard it is or could it be that the viewer as a whole is more interested in salacious content well to discuss this with me now i'm joined by georgetown university journalism professor christopher chambers hi there perhaps there are so what's this reason do you think for in this in these things do well there are a variety of things don't go for the out of touch thing that's kind of a kind of a kneejerk thing you know underneath t

media it's ridiculed i mean they literally do ridicule and scoff the idea just like when you're on m s n b c n. do you really believe this i mean why is it that this obvious reality is either framed as friends or completely omitted from the discussion and i mean part of it is because we you know we don't have a lot of journalists that are going to these countries and talking to the people who have been declared as enemies by the united states government i mean what i found when i went to be on province in yemen and met with tribal people who are tribal leaders who are rather receiving end of the drone strikes these are people that level these are people that want osama bin laden to with you know in the terms of lindsey graham and all these other people they have every reason to be against al qaeda but we're giving them every reason to say well enemy of my enemy is my friend and you know blowback is i think inevitable you can't conduct these kinds of wars around the world killing innocent people in the pursuit of a few bad guys and pretend that it's not going to come back to you i can't tell

official confirm to n b s b c news that the israeli air force bombed the military research center in syria and now israeli leaders previously said that the country would not allow weapons to flow from syria to lebanon earlier this week it is reported that the leader of hezbollah said that his group would assist syrian president bashar al assad if needed in the president serious efforts to defeat the opposition clearly the civil war that began an uprising that began more than two years ago the israeli strike also reported sure it also follows days and weeks of renewed concern voiced by washington and its western allies over syria's potential use of chemical weapons against opposition forces obama has previously characterized evidence of the use of chemical weapons as a game changer that would have enormous consequences but as we see the actions that are now potentially being taken against syria are not being. taken by the u.s. and its western allies here these newest reports are are showing that the actions are being taken by israel. as you say marino the u.s. is of course have been s

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