u.s. mainstream media rapidly losing its audience as more viewers tire of a narrow news diet people are increasingly looking for more accuracy and objectivity outside the scope of corporate controlled outlets as it is more important i reports. believe me i'm not a boy he's the most trusted fictional name in news the lead character of h.b.o.'s upcoming series newsroom is on a mission to tell the truth in the face of u.s. corporate and commercial pressures when you ask what makes the greatest country in the world i don't know what i'm. venting their lives and their work in the world of nonfiction taking morgan holding its annual shareholders meeting america's corporate owned news networks that rarely challenge the status quo might want to take some cues from h.b.o.'s fake show and i report awards last month c.n.n. is raving's dropped to their lowest in a decade here on the nominees in march fox lost nearly twenty percent of their viewers and for years and as n.b.c. has consistently remained least popular among all three if you went into the board rooms in the executive suites of these media companies

u.s. mainstream organizations agree not to reveal what they know until the white house says so in a case like, but the white house can't really control the whole communications world. it's quite the quandary, isn't it? >> especially in the world of social media. we can nick walsh reporting earlier that day at the presidential palace in kabul that they were told to clear it out. they didn't know why. it started the buzz about a vip visit. whether or not that led to the news report that then led to the tweets that then led to the story and then all that had to be taken down or undone. >> so give us an idea of how this transpired. what was said exactly and, you know, how potentially dangerous was this? >> it's always very dangerous when you have a head of state, a president, going into a war zone. afghanistan is still a very hot war zone. and the president coming there has to come under cover of darkness. air force one is blacked out. we heard john king talk about his trip with president bush a few years ago where he had to come in and they almost had to corkscrew down to make the landing. on th

the mainstream media says the u.s. is interfering in chinese affairs and should back off. >> in terms of how they're perceived and in terms of how they're opening up their relationship with the u.s. and we have these talks with hillary clinton, how should they be approaching mr. chen's situation? >> they value his ability to engage in society. i think they need to also stressed that media freedom and allowing journalists [inaudible] allowing foreign journalists' access to him and others in his situation is vital for the protest. >> are you not concerned that by having or by trying to gain access to him, we're not in danger in his position? >> i think that is a valid concern. i think that he and other dissidents recognize the risk involved in speaking out. once they are willing to take that risk, it is up to reporters in the u.s. and around the world to broadcast their own wishes. >> thank you very much for that. we can cross live to pictures from beijing. those high-level talks are now under way. we can see that this i

u.s. encircled by with missile defense systems of russia and china and the mainstream media would not touch this issue and the speaking tour that i do have so the american people don't really know very little about it but instead we hear a lot about how russia and china are expanding their military which of course is happening largely because the u.s. is militarily circling both those countries today now office says it will develop brand new weapons to counter the myth out over concerns the shield could intercept current technology does this have the hallmarks of a new arms race here. sadly i think it does i'm against any country developing more weapons these days but we don't need a new arms race we have a big problem on this planet called climate change that we need all the countries of the world to help deal with but in fact when you're being surrounded as russia and china is today one begins to understand why they feel the need to increase their military especially when the united states can't come in and his war gaming a first strike attack on china every year and now for the past seve

thing though we have seen a rise in support from parties outside of parties outside of the mainstream in the u.s. i can't like ron paul and france a party like the national front so i'm president to report do you think we'll see a continuation of support for parties outside of the mainstream and what impact do you think this will have on western economies no of course you see that the political system agrees as parties which didn't exist of five years ago change years even in germany you're starting to see the new parties arise i mean in germany in a prevention election sunday new party got eight percent of the vote eight percent come from nowhere so you're going to see more of that you're going to see it certainly in the us not just in the rest of the world you're going to see it here too because people realize the mainstream as you put it the mainstream has gotten us into this situation mr a pox on both of their houses the democrats and the republicans got us into this situation you and i didn't get us into this situation the democrats and the republicans so now people are starting to say well

u.s. and russia in fact i see in mainstream media across our country here in the u.s. that russia is increasingly being demonized as is china and i think there's no there's a reason for that and i think it's you know whether to make. russia and china the enemies in the coming period it will benefit the military industrial complex but i think the greatest issue here is the competition over declining resources on the world with the climate change it's happening which by the way is our real problem we should be investing in that rather than a whole new arms race on all sides we should be dealing with climate change but as we see the arctic melt increasingly they're now saying that they're going to be very well corporations are going to be able to do drilling for oil and natural gas in the arctic region which puts us in huge conflict with russia. so i think that this nato expansion of this missile defense systems going into poland romania turkey and so in other countries throughout. the russia's neighborhood is all about trying to control russia and russia has access to re

u.s. officials towards china's human rights record one of those situations that you better get right or shut up but what's interesting about this case is that it's one of those rare stories of the mainstream media loves to pick up on and roll with again because it has all the right elements because china is frenemy number one to the u.s. and these kind of very public diplomatic tensions they think matter more than others because to hold a moral high ground over china the u.s. actually need to tread carefully can be more different when it comes to certain countries where our war on terror is playing out the shadow war countries where nobody. pays attention to human rights records and the fate of a lone dissident or even a journalists now the country is that where our government doesn't even like to acknowledge the deaths of civilians due to our own counterterrorism policies like air strikes and drone strikes they are just considered collateral damage and the media takes the same line and the reason to bring this up again is not only the extensive coverage has been given to chen guancheng but also because yesterday was world press freedom day and yesterday president obama issued a statement

minutes past the hour here in moscow still to come for you that of biased backlash mainstream news outlets in the u.s. are rapidly losing viewers to alternative sources as more people refuse to swallow the corporate spin. montreal boiling over people of all ages and walks of life joined local students venting their anger over jewish and hikes and the authorities protest the crackdown. julian assange and the occupy movement phenomena much ignored and condemned by the mainstream media now though for the first time the two come together here on our t.v. to discuss how the corporate alliance plans to change the world. now recognize that public policy outcomes on happening at the national level and the policy makers actually the ones who are national parliaments they're elsewhere and the ones who are exciting policy on any way counts or not them that's what some steps and that's a global phenomenon i mean should we all just have a global financial crisis we have a global political crisis because our institutions no longer function yeah exactly and this is one of the points of the global justice movement w

piece thank you so much for joining us this morning still to come by is a backlash mainstream news outlets in the u.s. are rapidly losing the u.s. to alternative sources as more people refuse to swallow the palm print spin. that the montreal boiling people of all ages and walks of life joined local students venting their anger over to wish in hikes in the authorities a protest crackdown. joining us on in the occupy movement of an ominous the much ignored and condemned by the mainstream media now for the first time the two come together on r. and d. to discuss how the n.t. corporate plans to change the world exclusive show in full tomorrow at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a taste. now recognize that public policy outcomes on happening at the national level and the policy makers are actually the ones who are national parliaments they're elsewhere and the ones who are exciting policy on anyway accounts or you know one of them where plans to announce a global phenomenon i mean should we all just have a global financial crisis we have a global political crisis because our institutions no longer function

these are kind of mainstream u.s.have looked at the obama healthcare law and come up with the obvious conclusion that it's going to raise healthcare costs and cost a lot more money, not just to corporate america but to average americans who have to pay for the new man dates out of their own pocket. martha: they say that would come from higher taxes, that it would come from fees and bureaucratic burdens according to this report that is entitled higher costs, more confusion and less coverage. the other side, the white house basically says that this is a part son report as i mentioned in the event throw, they say it's misleading, inaccurate and contradictory and that democrats have come up with their own list of companies who say that they think it will indeed lower their costs. >> well, you know, facts are facts. you can interpret them different ways, but here is two facts, there is an individual mandate, every american has to have health insurance, so you're going to cover a lot more americans, and that is going to cos

case about freedom and justice for all americans this is what the mainstream media chooses to miss. announcement on today that the u.s. is prepared right now to use military force on iran if it needs to to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons that announcement comes on the heels of a series of meetings scheduled between iran and six world powers the united states france russia china britain and germany well the u.n. has already implemented four rounds of crippling sanctions against iran with another round set to go into effect this summer they're hoping to persuade iran to stop its uranium enrichment program entirely today's announcement seems to be another warning lights to iran that the u.s. and israel aren't messing around here to discuss this is lawrence wilkerson retired united states army colonel and a former chief of staff to colonel. colin powell excuse me colonel wilkerson thanks so much for being on the show and i guess i want to ask you i thought today's announcement sort of in two different ways i thought on one hand as being sort of a warning to iran on the heels of these talks and on the other h

u.s. citizens i noticed. no coverage of that ruling anywhere in the mainstream media though that they're going to focus on the horrible story of the u.c.s.d. student and what he was put through and rightly so the da deserves to be called out but they pick and choose they haven't spoken about the d.a.'s case for the most part and they won't in the future because that they choose to miss. well today is the national day of prayer an annual observance designated by congress where the people of the united states may turn to god in prayer and meditation at churches in groups and as individuals at the day that's earth quite a few people out there who feel that government endorse holidays such as this violates the idea of the separation of church and state and so today has also been marked as the national day of reason started in two thousand and three as a secular response and last week representative pete stark from california explained the day is one that celebrates the application of reason and the positive impact that it's had on humanity he also called it an opportunity to really of farm the constitutional sepa

mainstream media decided to miss. what she's been called the most classified woman in u.s. history but now after a long battle with government secrecy the. whole story is finally been written so belle edmonds took a job as a translator for the f.b.i. just five days after nine eleven and she was fired from the bureau in april of two thousand and two after raising suspicions that one of the other translators in her section perhaps being a member of the american turkish council and this organization was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of congress drug trafficking illegal weapons sales money laundering and nuclear proliferation and every step of the way at this faced resistance not only internally at the f.b.i. but within congress remembers backed down to pressure flows within the courts were not once but twice the justice department used the state secrets privilege to silence her and even in trying to publish your book face a nearly year long f.b.i. campaign to prevent its publication so we finally get a chance to talk to the whistleblow

stream keep it as the kind of vanguard movement of the mainstream whether it can do that or not i don't know we'll have to see what role do you see for u.s. banks and u.s. corporations how else if not through them can the economy get. overcovered well the the not only are we not in a recovery i mean the the the banks are playing some very dirty game the fact that we've not regulated the banks the fact that we bailed out firms like goldman sachs and are in essence lending them free money what's the big zero one percent interest or something means they're all back to the speculative games and that's what they are games they don't produce anything they bed against one of the reasons the price of petrol is rising is because they're buying up futures and hoarding which is what they do with commodity prices you know basic staples of food rice and everything else and we are headed for another implosion and some of our most respected financial reporters gretchen morgenson and others at the new york times walking around saying this we've done nothing to curb them we have permitted the largest transference of wealth upwards in american history the

u.s. and started working as a journalist. what is interesting about this blog is that while being a journalist and being in the mainstream mediaept blogging and has kept his connection to the blogosphere. we found that to be very valuable and significant progress what can journalists do in free countries to help their colleagues in places where there is little or no press freedom? >> that is a good question. we can think about things which we probably -- which probably shall not be done by people in the outside, that includes essentially assuming that any sort of education from the outside can happen. people want to prison for mission into countries, and journalists and a bagram like me, if i were to try to sort of -- and blotters let me, if i were to try to push the leadership and educate people, people would back off and said these countries. it is important that we give them credit for them being the activists and being the real force for change. essentially, we would want to ask this question for people of iran. ask, what do you want, rather than giving them a list of things to do. i find that to be very important, from a

u.s. law enforcement. the movement it was sidelined because they didn't have any money i mean they were marginalized by mainstream media which at first said these are lazy unemployed americans they don't have anything better to do with their time or use on the weekends even employed americans were joining movement well some some media some media i think the far right media did like the fact that there were very clear examples of class warfare that weren't invented by stalinist that live in america i think it's very clear that people here already trying to destroy in new york city they're not trying to destroy america they're trying to save this country from itself and from the people that have continuously profited from its destruction the next people to take now the occupy movement was calling on the ninety nine percent to not go to work today to refrain from purchasing anything just to show that if they remove the labor and the spending power that that it's really the wealth of the one percent that depends on the participation of the ninety nine percent we see new york is still moving people are still buying pe