it didn't come out so late in two thousand and five so it's part of this collusion you know the u.s. media like to lecture the rest of the world about the need for a free press and how the state should not control the media but when it comes to national security in our country there is all too much collusion between the elite media outlets like the new york times the washington post time magazine n.p.r. there is too much collusion between these institutions these press institutions and the institutions of the national security state so you're saying that too often the media works with the government instead on trying to expose their wrong doing the government no doubt about it i mean what kind of what kind of reporter would do this kind of think of this sort of helpful p.r. role for the cia and then the next day turn around and try to expose possible wrongdoing. by that agency to the american public you know people it's unlikely and as i say the problem at the new york times as we saw from the reactions of the bosses here not just this reporter has not spoken but the reaction of the new yo

response to these are the administration response to these they've sold the u.s. media that these are the answer this is the way to defeat al qaeda look all we need to do is kill al qaeda leaders and al qaeda will be done the the the media mocked president bush when he did this in two thousand and two and two thousand and four and two thousand and six and they're right on board because top because access is given the top levels of the u.s. national security council to to media personalities and so they're basically eating what what the people like brennan and others tell them and that's that is why there is very little critical eye in the u.s. media given to this program and look i believe the last the polls were like eighty two percent of the american public supports the drone program you know of course the administration is going to do this it's a political winner it makes them look tough and it allows them to say they wanted to that they were able to defeat al qaeda and allows them to do what they want to do which is disengage from afghanistan and basically disengage

well the media likes to blame the public or the media goes for the u.s. corporate media the newspapers the new york times days for years and years without serious coverage and then blames the public as if this were some sort of public generation of lack of interest i think the media doesn't cover it and so the public doesn't talk about it and as you mentioned the two parties than the two presidential candidates agree on it so there's not a dispute there's not a partisan disagreement so there's nothing to be mentioned it doesn't factor into elections never mind that in every poll about three quarters seventy percent of americans say get out of there all they would let me let me stop you i wanted to put some of those numbers up on the board you were talking about the public and their take on the war will if the public if the public may not be quite as interested but they do have. some and you know some ideas about the war and we want to talk about troop casualties as well the first thousand troop deaths was reached eight years and five months into fighting a

. >> the fact that it was from a u.s. media, they should be supporting our athletes and they ripped me to shreds. i thought that was crazy because i worked six days a week, every day for four years for a 12 second race. >> jones says she hopes to compete in rio four years from now. >> after germany's robert harding won in the discus, he took off his shirt, and went down the track hitting nine hurdles without a stumble. he may have a second calling as a hurdle jumper. china continues to win more gold medals, but the u.s. has more total medals. london has 22 gold medals so far. this afternoon, the gold medal is on the line for the u.s. women's soccer team as they face off against japan. this match, of course, comes just days after their nail biter win over canada in the semifinals. later the u.s. women's basketball team will try to keep their hopes alive in the semifinals. and usain goes for his second gold medal in the men's 200 meter finals. romney tries to undermine the democrats. we break down another crazy day on the campaig

u.s. media turned away from. reporting. from then on independent journalism was regarded as a collateral and a. after the terrorist attacks of september eleventh two thousand and one the bush administration took the chance on trying to control the media and manipulate american public opinion. i think the bush administration absolutely manipulated. the media in america at the time in hindsight of course there are justification for the war were more spurious and besting and it just they were they were falsehoods one of the things that was most disturbing about the nuclear issue was that. in november the inspectors went into iraq to look at whether there were weapons of mass destruction or programs to. model bartered put out reports that they were unable to find any trace and while it was not possible one hundred percent the thing that's going on it was a very very high likelihood that nothing was going on and this got very little coverage following the government's conception a large number of the american media demonize sadd

thompson will have his work cut out for him as he pushes forward with restructuring at the u.s. media group. >>> some japanese innovators are trying to find a new source of power in ocean currents. they want to develop more stable alternatives to solar and wind energy, affected by weather conditions. the people at machinery maker, ihi corporation are joining hand with researchers at university of tokyo. they plan to set up a propeller to convert the energy of ocean currents into electricity. the propeller 40 momenteeters i diameter. they will start testing in a large tank and help to put what they learn to commercial use in 2020. >> it's very difficult to build a device for an environment like the ocean. but we am to overcome the obstacles by relying on our experience in building vessels and marine structures. >> other firms have set similar goals. the people at the engineering and ship building want to tap power of waves by using buoys floating on the surface. and engineers want to develop a propeller based system of their own. they will use power of water currents at the bottom of t

but then to get angry with the media, first of all, u.s. mediare to support her, we are there to cover her and that's what the journalists do we report on these issues, we are not the pr people, and i understand why she is angry, i think from our perspective, howie, we do have to cover athletes the way we cover other news. it's journalism and sometimes it's not always easy but it's what we do. >> obviously a bit of a delay from london. i agree with you. i mean she did pose news for espn, the magazine, out there talking about her virginity, sorry she missed a medal by .01th of a second but there that the media is there to pump up and support u.s. athletes, but that's not your role, is it? >> no it's not. i can understand the confusion by these u.s. athletes, howie, most other nations, they are the cheerleaders. for example, in the press center, which is not too far from where i'm talking to you now, in the presenter, we will hear cheers from the press offices, the wire service of other nations when their teams are playing in gold medal games or in

u.s. national security council to to media personalities and so they're basically eating what what the. people like brennan and others tell them and that's that is why there is very little critical eye in the u.s. media given to this program and it looks i believe the last polls were like eighty two percent of the american public supports the drone program you know of course the administration is going to do this it's a political winner it makes them look tough and it allows them to say they wanted to that they were able to defeat al qaeda and allows them to do what they want to do which is disengage from afghanistan and basically disengage from the middle east and fight a war on the cheap ok jane you want to jump in there. yeah what i really chris said about if it's a militant that's ok i mean what's a militant who is a militant who defines who's a militant that's sometimes i'm pretty militant about things i believe in passionately and i don't think i should be subject to a challenge strike but you know this is the this is this is a real this is a real problem in terms of the due proce

are advocates yeah and a lot of times those numbers even are really sort of played down by the u.s. media certainly wiki leaks was able to give us a better picture of the civilian death tolls a lot higher than has been reported by our leaders both military leaders and political leaders so that's i'm going to think about as well let's talk david about some of the pictures that we do get of what it looks like on the ground in afghanistan you may remember an article back a while back in rolling stone written by michael hastings that article called the runaway general and it led to general stanley mcchrystal as resignation and also painted a different view for americans i want to put up a quote from a private first class interviewed in the article he said we should just drop an f. ing bomb on this place you said and ask yourself what are we doing here david what is the u.s. still doing in afghanistan. what well it's still those that have bases and weapons there afghanistan is strategically positioned next to china and russia and the middle east it's still hopes to another guest place wind run

have been accused of executions and abuses against regime supporters even so revelations in the u.s. media claim washington is funneling more covert aid to the opposition historian gerald horne says america could pay for stoking extremism in syria. it's well known that washington basically has perfected the idea of the two trucks or policy that is to say on the one hand you can smile when the other hand and mike in the back that's basically what's happening in syria all of this blather about negotiations with the regime is no more than that either they would like to see we've seen change although as usual i don't think washington has caught up with the consequences that is to say that there is a real danger that al-qaeda like forces will be coming to power sooner rather than later in the speech and then washington will be faced with a replay of what if helped engineer in afghanistan where they helped to engineer the coming to power of the taliban which opened the door for either to gain influence there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh two thousand and one . but the war cries

just bringing up the whole controversy issue that i think it's really the favorite word of the u.s. media sometimes and in this particular case it's not really clear what this controversy stems from because we have country. that make up the general assembly at the united nations we have the secretary general of the united nations we have a summit about non-nuclear proliferation and iran is hosting it what is really the controversy here i don't see that you know the the summit is ongoing as we're speaking right here in moscow so we'll have to see how it pans out but the having our u.n. correspondent live in the studio with great pleasure thanks for coming into town. where you're watching r.t. live from the russian capital the u.n. chief ban ki-moon has said he's planning to use the visit to address the crisis in syria in just a few minutes here on r t we look into the latest developments in the country and how world powers can make the media withhold information they don't want the public to see. now ukraine's highest court has rejected an appeal by former prime minister yulia timoshenko a

growing flow weapons from neighboring turkey through a secret transit hub and revelations and the u.s. media claim the white house has also rise to more cover support for anti assad forces despite their links to al qaida author and historian gerald ford says america's repeating past mistakes by stoking extremism in syria. it's well known that washington basically has perfected the idea of a two trucks foreign policy that is to say on the one hand you can smile when the other hand and mike in the back that's basically what's happening in syria all this blather about negotiations with the regime but you don't want that either they would like to see regime change although as usual i don't think washington has what the consequences there is to say that there is a real danger that al-qaeda like forces will be coming to power sooner rather than later in the past and then washington will be faced with a replay of what engineer in afghanistan where the engineer of the coming to power of the taliban which opened the door to gain influence there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh two thous

the fact it was from a u.s. media. they should be supporting our u.s. olympic athletes. instead they just ripped me to shreds. i thought that was crazy. i work six days a week every day for four years for a 12-second race. the fact they tore me apart, it was heartbreaking. i'm not -- they need to do the research. calling me the anna kournikova. i'm the american record holder. i'm the american record holder, two titles. just because i don't boast about these things, i don't think i should be ripped apart by media. i laid it out there for my country. it's just a shame that i have to deal with so much backlash when i'm already so brokenhearted as it is. >> you have been such a public person. you have bared your soul. i wonder how you look at it now. you can't help but put your heart out there. that's just who you are. are you sorry that you did? >> i mean, putting your heart out there, obviously it opens you up to a lot of negativity. at the same time if i can just reach somebody out there, maybe a little girl out there who doesn't think she can be an olympic athlete. she s

now in the top 50 u.s. media markets, all of the affiliates of all the major networks have to post online basic information about who is paying how much money to put political ads on those stations. so for example, now we know without having to drive to wsyx in columbus, ohio, and sweet talk the receptionist there and have a lot of dimes ready for the copy machine. now we know over the course of one week the coke brothers right-wing group americans for prosperity, they bought 40 separate ads to run on just that one station in just that one week. neat. for that one week on that one station in that one media market in columbus, ohio, in that one swing state, the coke brothers group dropped $23,000 running those ads. that makes you appreciate, when you learn that, you appreciate where all the millions go in politics. however much it costs you to make a political ad, it is really the cost of putting it on tv and all the media markets in all the different states all across the country. that is where the bills really a

now, in the top 50 u.s. media markets, all of the affiliates of all of the major networks have to post online basic information about who is paying how much money to put political ads on those stations. so for example, now we know without having to drive to wsyx in columbus, ohio, and talk to the receptionist there and have a lot of dimes ready for the copy machine, we know over the course of one week, the koch brothers right wing group americans for prosperity, bought 40 separate ads to run on just that one station in just that one week. neat. for that one week on that one station in that one media market in columbus, ohio, in that one swing state, the koch brothers group dropped $23,000 running those ads. that makes you appreciate where all of the millions go, right? in politics. however much it costs you to make a political ad, it's really the cost of paying to put it on tv and all of the media markets in all of the different states all across the country, that is where the bills s add up. if you want to know w

now, in the top 50 u.s. mediahe affiliates of all of the major networks have to post online basic information about who is paying how much money to put political ads on those stations. so for example, now we know without having to drive to wsyx in columbus, ohio, and talk to the receptionist there and have

he has a law degree and served in the u.s. media and pacific and was in u.s. news columnist and later editor. most notably for many years, he served in the white house as an adviser to president nixon, ford, ronald reagan and clinton. when he was working from clinton he approached me about becoming a white house spokesman on foreign affairs. when that didn't work out, he suggested that i could become the spokesman of the pentagon. but, especially with the cold war ending it didn't sound very interesting to me, so i declined the offer. i really dodged the bullet. had i taken that job, and had i stayed on for a bit, when the monitor the lewinski scandal erupted and linda troup was involved both of those levies would have been working for me to the pentagon. [laughter] as i say i dodged a bullet. but that is a digression. in a recent interview, he talked of his concerns about the aspects of today's journalism. he's not against young journalists and certainly neither am i ret in his words, you want young writers who are really, really bright. but i think understan

there have been a few stories that i've really loved that maybe haven't gotten the attention of the u.s. mediane that i loved from a couple days ago. a guy named anthony obom winning the first medal ever for the country of gabon. he ends up getting a silver. great story for that country. katie taylor, the irish boxer wins the first gold medal for ireland since 1996. first olympics ever for a female boxing, and literally they stopped on the streets of dub lane apparently when katie fought her fight. it was a huge moment for that country. and then my personal favorite, david rudisha. usain bolt is incredible. david ruddisha is the greatest 800 meter runner in history. broke his own world record in the final. seven of the runners in that race had personal bests and david rudisha crushed them. >> talk about women and how theye medaling and overall u.s. medals. both incredible story lines. >> the u.s. is doing phenomenally well. they're going to win the medal count going away because of the great weekend we've had. but if you look at the women for the u.s., that really has been the story. 27 of 31

pointing us in the direction of accurate information there are more than twenty five thousand media entities in the u.s. but most of them owned by a very concentrated group of corporations in the relationship between the government media outlets and the corporations who fund them is complicated. turns out many media directors are former u.s. lawmakers some examples william cohen from viacom and former f.c.c. board members such as william kennard of the new york times and dennis fitzsimons of the tribune company this makes a perfect example of the revolving door between mainstream media and the u.s. government so why would anyone wonder why alternative news channels like r t would pick apart the quality of programming in search of bias how could the artsy motto be questioned more if we didn't ask how the board of disney who owns a.b.c. might react to critical news coverage on how labor and boeing companies who have executives on the disney board of directors consider this the us air force alone publishes one hundred forty newspapers and other media every week other government related institutions produc

u.s. officials and members of the media said was quite alarming and threatens the security of the u.s. some did not mince their words and i went so far as to call for his assassination and speaking of that want to take a listen now to some of the songes harshest critics. the reason i'm saying to you foreign terrorist organization is that they are engaged in terrorist activity. what they're doing is clearly aiding and abetting terrorist groups that using information against americans. information warfare is warfare and julian assange is engaged in warfare information terrorism which leads to people getting killed is terrorism and you loose on using gaves in terrorism i think the man as a terrorist. has done and there's so much you know everyone's going to it is an enormous damage to our country and i think he needs to be prosecuted to the full fullest extent of the law and if that becomes a problem i need to change the law one leaking that materialist deplorable agree with the pentagon's assessment that the people at wilkie leitz could have blood on their hands it sure looks to me on th

. >> it is on the u.s. media market.r to home here in the uk, the bbc is showing olympics. >> what is the commercial benefit from the olympics? >> the commercial benefit occurs from the sponsor, i won't name names but we know who they are redeploying their money into tuck around the olympics and placing more money this year than next year. more of a phasing benefit. >> are they going to get -- this is being, you know, generating such enormous interest and kelly has been traveling around. there seems to be a, this is a fantastically well supported olympics as good if not better than sidney in 2000 and fantastic filter. does that feedback into the sponsors? can they tap into that? >> they should be able to. i heard before the break one of your other guests talking about consumer confidence at an ebb. if this doesn't do something for the uk consumer confidence nothing well. so, big chocolate companies, big drink companies will latch on to this. >> you can't get any olympic venue you've been to -- the best thing was those li

. >> the fact that it was from a u.s. media like -- they should be supporting our u.s.or four years for 12-second race. the fact they just tore me apart, it was heartbreaking. >> by the way, we saw a tease with tim tebow with his shirt off. we're a visual society. broadway joe namath. if he didn't look like he did, there's a lot of guys that won a lot more super bowls than he would. >> the journalist asked to take this back, said, no, i thought it was fair. >> knowing how important it is to anybody who did a job, how do you feel about the timing? you knew she would see this. some athletes would say this inspired me. >> if you're an athlete and performing in front of a billion people, i think a comment about commercialism. >> it was a personal attack. >> it wasn't -- >> excuse me, he said vixen, virgin, or what was the -- >> victim. >> victim. that's a personal attack. >> people talking about how many people they had or didn't have sex with. i'm a virgin, that's part of her persona. >> let me make one other footnote acknowledgement. when she said in the sound bite, she s

he said weakly leaks is a populist share it is a news outlet something that the mainstream media in the u.s. says argued against them and only the same thing as the new york times essentially yes and they have constantly tried to differentiate themselves. mainstream media from julian a songe i think what they what they fail to realize is that if if a songe and or wiki leaks goes down domino effect new york times this next and everybody else is reprint of this so-called useless information from wiki leaks but it was a huge victory for free speech and at the same time though i don't know how it bodes for whistleblowers because part of the decision again is articulated by a putin yo was and looking at how bradley manning was being treated in the us number one looking at the war on with full blowers going on in the us number two and number three looking at the general anti leak hysteria that is currently sweeping our nation and then threatening anti leak legislation that would be quite draconian so this is definitely interesting timing here we have someone seeking asylum from western countries

and broke down in tears the next day while talking about the attack in the times and arguing that u.s. media >> just tore me apart, which is heartbreaking. i'm not, like, you know, he didn't even do his research, calling me the anna kournikova of track. i am the american record holder indoors, i have two indoor titles, and just because i don't boast about these things, i don't think i should be ripped apart by media. i laid it out there, i fought hard for my country, and i think it's just a shame that i have to deal with so much backlash when i'm already so broken hearted as it is. jon: broken hearted because she missed the bronze medal by a tenth of a second, she missed the gold by a quarter of a second. joining us, judith miller, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and author, kirsten powers is a columnist for the daily beast, both are fox news contributors. has either one of you ever been a female hurdler? [laughter] i didn't ask that in my research. >> i wish. jon judy, you think what the times did was terribly unfair. >> oh, i think even the ombudsman of the paper, arthur bris

u.s. state media says kim ordered the forces to deal a deadly blow to the enemy if a single shell is dropped on north korean territory. >>> and now to major developments in syria. rebels are saying the syrian vice president has defected but may still be in the country. syrian state tv released a statement saying "the vice president didn't think for one second to leave the homeland." our nick robertson is live in b d there now. how do we clarify the discrepancies? >> reporter: the best test may come tomorrow. it is the end of ramadan now. there will be a big service, a big service in damascus. normally you would get the president and the vice president standing there. if they're not there together, then i think that's the best indication that the government doesn't have their hands on this. what the rebels are telling us is they've been trying to get him across the border. commanders are trying to smuggle him out of the country. they say they lost contact with him recently. the government adamant and still commenting on going issues connected with the violence in the country right now. >> in