ted rall, who is a syndicated editorial cartoonist, a columnist, and an author. ted, thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate your time. thanks for having me, rick. appreciate it. so what do you make of this? i mean, i use russia as an example and you know, they're going to have their reasons for wanting to have what many in the west call this fake news laws. but isn't this something that almost every government is going to have to be dealing with all over the world? well, every government always has to deal with messaging, positive and negative no matter what. so the question is, how do they do it? and culturally, and politically, every regime has its own way of doing this. the u. s. tend to try to do it through their connections to corporate media and to sell access to public officials. and they tend to, you know, you can't really say that they call up the new york times and tell them what to say and what not to say, but the influences there, it's more subtle. russia says that if you're reporting on their country and you go there and make a, what they wou

certainly has a lot to say about this because he's been looking at it and he's been writing about a ted rall, who is a syndicated editorial cartoonist, a columnist, and an author. ted, thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate your time. thanks for having me, rick. appreciate it. so what do you make of this? i mean, i use russia as an example and you know, they're going to have their reasons for wanting to have what many of the west call this fake news laws. but isn't this something that almost every government is going to have to be dealing with all over the world? well, every government always has to deal with messaging, positive and negative no matter what. so the question is, how do they do it? and culturally, and politically, every regime has its own way of doing this. the u. s. tend to try to do it through their connections to corporate media and to sell access to public officials. and they tend to, you know, do you can't really say that they call up the new york times and tell them what to say and what not to say. but the influences there, it's more subtle. russia says that if y