it comes to questionable practices by adam davidson and the planet money team and mark ames and yasha levine are the founders of the web site shame or shame on the hacks that abuse that media ethics mark is here with me in washington yasha is in our studios in los angeles mark let me start with you and we'll get to some of the other things in a moment but let's just talk specifically about this interview definitely at several points in the interview got very fiery but why couldn't this just be adam davidson doing his job you know asking tough questions like journalists are supposed to do here's the thing when when this interview happened people were shocked nobody understood because you assume adam davidson is sort of this gee whiz dweeb you know guy just trying to discover what's going on just as much as the next person nobody knew that the sole funder of his sole fund or the guy who was paying him his money was allied bank which is g.-mac which was one of the poster child banks of of fraud subprime fraud foreclosure fraud it was. over seventeen billion dollars in bailout money and it had j

deeper into the questionable practices of planet money i was joined earlier by marking ames and yasha levine founders of the website shame which stands for shame the hacks that abuse media fix now i started out by asking mark ams why this couldn't just be another situation of a journalist you know asking tough questions with adam davidson. people were shocked nobody understood because you assume adam davidson is sort of this gee whiz dweeb you know guy just trying to discover what's going on just as much as the next person nobody knew that the sole funder of his soul fund or the guy who was paying him his money was allied bank which is g.-mac which was one of the poster child banks of of fraud subprime fraud foreclosure fraud it was. over seventeen billion dollars in bailout money and it had just arranged to deal with planet money to be their souls and exclusive sponsor and this wasn't disclosed and at the same time that davidson attacked. elizabeth warren our bank was spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and you know here in washington lobbying to kill what warren was trying to set up

alright well really good to talk to both of you shane website founders mark ames and yasha levine thanks so much for coming on the show today. so i had on our team it's no big secret that big brother likes to pry but not just unsuspecting and enemies of the state the u.s. government is spending billions to monitor its own employees up next we'll show you how far it's willing to go to protect state secrets. a client of american power continues. things in our country. might actually be time for a revolution. and it turns out that a popular drink of starbucks has a surprising in radio. put a picture of me when i was like nine years old on the. she told the truth. i am a total get a friend that i would probably get caught is that the entrance. was kind of a. very. old with a split. what i want to talk now about surveillance on the government level on the ways in which it's increasing despite calls for more transparency last month we told you how several employees at the food and drug administration were the targets of a major surveillance program by their employer after it got out that they

including myself with this report right and i should tell you we have the them both on the show yasha levine and mark ams were on the show just a few hours ago talking about it as well but you of course we want to talk to you as well because you wrote the article another controversy foster surrounding adam davidson was that he took speaking gigs for events sponsored by big banks big banks like bank of america and j.p. morgan i know you actually reached out to a r. and the new york times who davidson also contributes to what did they tell you in terms of whether davidson broke company rules. they said that they did not in both instances and both companies have vaguely worded policies regarding this essential it comes down to you wouldn't speak to somebody whose industry you could affect and notably the new york times has let a few people off on this rule like their tech columnist who is a very widely read guy and he's taken multiple speaking fees and he's never really gotten in trouble he has a very very wide following whether or not this has something to do with the fact that he's never been