Dramatically changing the world living. In the lives of piracy. Counting the cost on aljazeera. The clinic now looks to be. A lot richer gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories were covering this week you can add to the list of countries dealing with political upheaval on the streets amongst the issues on the airwaves journalism from behind bars in prisons across the u. S. Inmates are reporting on a hidden world to ban or not to ban the issue is political advertising social media sites are grappling with it and the Washington Post botches an obituary headline and the internet is not going to let the paper live it down. Over the past month or so weve covered mass protest movements and the way those stories have been reported from hong kong to baghdad to beirut this week were looking at chile and the largest demonstrations there since the end of the pinochet dictatorship almost 30 years ago the unrest was set off by a price hike on public transport but the larger context to all issues include rising inequality plus an unrepresentative Political Class news outlets include chile has the most concentrated media ownership in latin america there is a lot of resentment on the streets directed at t. V. Channels accusations of too much airtime on looting not enough on either violations by the Security Forces or the underlying issues behind the civil unrest the historical backdrop is central to this story theres a deep lingering resentment of the news media which goes back to the pinochet era chileans remember that the 4th estate failed them utterly back then and theyre saying that journalists still arent listening to them today our starting point this week is the capital santiago. Theres a perception the journalist telling the truth. This connected to this to be. Mostly private interest. Most of the protest were shot by drones from really high in the air because they would have problems with a camera on the street their vans would be vandalized. And people say its a protest and they all want Something Better for the country. On the other hand you have things terrible story of violence. Bringing buses bringing car is. Total destruction. On the streets in a state. Of. Mind one from what have the seventys. And the body knows how it started and nobody knows for sure how will it. What began as a spontaneous protest over the rising cost of a subway ticket in santiago has morphed into a National Movement that wants to talk about a much bigger issue inequality in chile. Starting in the mid 1970 s. The country went down the neoliberal path embarking on a privatization binge the money markets approved but it left citizens having to shell out for a range of privatized Services EducationHealth Care Pensions which many chilean say do not deliver enough the richest one percent holds more than a quarter of the countrys wealth they are well positioned to affect if not control the news mary. Nowhere in latin america is media ownership as concentrated as it is in chile which partly explains why the conflicts on the streets are not limited to protesters taking on Security Forces those protestors are also targeting journalists. And. Television channels and mainstream radio have not carried balanced coverage and havent reported the ill feeling on the street what t. V. Channels have done is to remain on the side of the ruling class opinion makers and expert but what is the underlying issue is that the near liberal capitalist model is at the expense of social rights rights that was stolen during the dictatorship and which remains hijacked as near liberalism with deep and democratic governments in the cell that underlie. You know. What has happened here is enormous protests fueled by social outrage and the media has felt but willed it that i know how to manage the situation this is a movement that doesnt have leaders controlling the masses represents them who can journalists dialogue with how can t. V. Manage process and present the social movement. We have to remember that almost the entire media in chile belongs to private corporations that kind of power this president in the way they control the media so even when a journalist is trying to depict a kind of image of the mobilization ultimately what people perceive is that this vested interests are manufacturing the kind of news and the kind of portray of any type of mobilization. A recurring grievance of protestors is the chilean medias emphasis on conflict at the expense of context they accuse privately owned channels such as mega v. C. On and channel 13 of feasting on images of looting and violence while starving audiences of analysis of the underlying causes of the unrest the agendas at play are not merely ideological they are commercial to the ratings chase and t. V. And the National Broadcaster is no different like other state owned institutions in chile it has had a neo liberal make over t. V. And is reliant on ad revenues in a way public broadcasters in other countries are not leading to coverage that leans towards the sensation of. The. West see watching the news i remember very clearly the screen divided into this t. V. And on one side of the screen you had a fire in the street and this one. This fire on of the screen the most important thing visually was this fire and what does it mean fire in a context like this means riots danger. The form of media that dominates chillies streets is social its where protesters organize get their news and share stories of News Coverage that fall short and it isnt just domestic news outlets and reporters feeling the heat foreign journalists are too now the hike in the metro aljazeera is correspondent to resupply was targeted after this life get stuck at the fringes of a protest for technical reasons she had demonstrators going after her not for anything she said but because of what her camera will show you never. Know with any detail in. Detail. The social Media Campaign was aggressive complete with Death Threats she left the country after being assaulted on the street you can see on facebook and twitter and instagram all this hashtags like dont trust journalists dont trust the elite turn off the t. V. Turn off this particular station and there is this anger people in the street say oh you know youre not covering this youre not covering that you can get a t. V. Station a traditional news outlet to behave as a social media showing everything at the same moment in the same way so its very challenging and there is the lack of trust and needs and the media belongs to the elite. Looming over the media story in chile is some dark history of the pinochet dictatorship which lasted from 1973 until 990 and the countrys oldest bestselling newspaper elmer curio has more to answer for than most in the early seventys the paper was bankrolled by the cia paid millions of dollars to produce stories to destabilize the democratically elected government of leftist president Salvador Allende then went on to cover up beautiful human rights by. Nations committed by the pinochet regime which killed thousands of chileans many of the demonstrators have long memories and its no wonder that the papers offices in the coastal city of valparaiso were broken into and satellite. Media you know is being asked about their support for the 973 could and then with according to this being asked when they want to ban me a call they havent done it till now and theyre not going to do it so we need to know what perspective of this right away and Media Outlets how on reality is it trying to maintain the economic model is it trying to protect its business interests is it trying to retain its privilege and hedging you know with daily media sister got interested in miami. We have come from a dictatorship where the military had an Important Role this is a memory a painful memory you know the attack against selma could you know is symbolic it is a very important newspaper in Chile Associated with a right Wing Movement that was in line with pinochet you cannot talk about chile without knowing what could he has said in. The. Days into the demonstrations president Sebastian Pinera declared a state of emergency while surrounded by men in uniform it was a sharp visual reminder as though chileans needed one of the past. Later appearing before the live cameras thing yet i added that declaration of war against the demonstrators one in which journalists are more than just collateral damage. The media watch and geo Reporters Without Borders says media workers have been arbitrarily and violently arrested targeted with tear gas and shot at with rubber bullets and live ammunition. But unlike 973. This time everybody has a front camera and a chance to tell the story. So you have tons of footage of people reporting in the streets sure tonights hot based and you have to put this in a larger context is the one of 1973 and the coup detat. It can be if we in 7 days we have this time 630. 00 showing the cross it is committed by Police Officers so. Can you imagine the level of violence committed by the time. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers johannah whos joe along with hate speech fake accounts misinformation the big social media platforms have been grappling with this issue of political advertising weve seen a lot of talk on it lets start with Facebook Whats the policy there and why is the Company Getting so much flack over well Richard Facebook has become an integral part of political campaigns around the world and it gets a lot of criticism for running political ads without Fact Checking them c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg was question last month at a congressional hearing in washington and this is how he defended facebooks policy to democracy i believe that people should be able to see for themselves what politicians that they may or may not vote for if you really want take it out there for themselves also deny that facebook hands off policy was designed in mind he said political ads work on for just 0. 5 percent of facebooks overall revenues next year but still if you break that down facebooks is forecasting total revenues next year of 66000000000 dollars 0. 5 percent of that is 300000000. 00 nothing to scoff that. Is also getting some stick from some of his own employees a number of whom signed a letter objecting to this whole. Let users figure it out for themselves approach calling it a threat to what facebook stands for then twitter c. E. O. Jack dorsey jumps in and he announces a policy change on vaclav form no more political acts if you look at the timing richard this feels a little bit like a case of corporate trolling well facebook flounders on this issue here is twitter with what sounds like a well thought out policy for killing all political ads dorsey tweeted political message reaches the urns not blogs and the pain to reach voters has significant ramifications that todays democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle and across the internet people were tagging facebook and zuckerberg asking why they couldnt do the same as twitter but its worth noting though that twitter doesnt make nearly as much as facebook that is from political ads so dorsey is not turning his back on as much money but from a p. R. Point of view it clearly did zuckerberg no favors this week ok thanks joe. More than 2000000 people live in american prisons thats roughly equivalent to the population of a medium sized city locked up across the country the stories of what really goes on inside are seldom heard which is striking since fictional depictions of prison life have proven to be more than marketable films like escape from alcatraz tapio the shah shank redemption more recent t. V. Shows like prison break and orange is the new black there is something about in person ration that seems to fascinate audiences however nonfictional accounts of life on the inside are much harder to come by for journalists who have tried access is the issue with prison authorities usually controlling who gets in and what stories get out but some prisoners are determined to make this a beat of their own the journalism that they produce from behind bars has real value both for audiences and the reporters involved the inmates seem to find journalism to be a useful form of rehabilitation a listening post flo phillips now on the ultimate inside story prison journalism in america. Roland melissa get this thing cracked lets get it bring it. Community from the bay of San Francisco one state prison this is. Broadcasting from inside one of the oldest prisons in the United States. Is a brand new radio show. Uncut is about telling us stories from our perspective its the latest product from a unique media project san quentin radio which operates out of San Quentin State Prison in california supported by volunteers and donations inmates to try to tell their story how to be the chronicler of their own experiences under. Loud and theres a market out there awash with depictions of prison life if youre not going back on my door not going. To start any fights in there with reality shows like americas toughest prisons true crime documentary series like making a murder and dramas like prison break the worst of the worst for their break list. Goes on. For Troy Williams one of the founders of the san quentin Media Initiative it was clear that people on the outside wanted to know about life behind prison walls so why not tell them the real thing you watch a lot of shows that talk of operating and they never like same they get my story right and so thats when i came up with the idea of producing and saying when president ford and from there things just began to take off that was back in 2010 when williams was still serving a life sentence at san quentin for robbery and kidnapping using donated equipment he began producing his own video and audio programs about life in jail he got out in 2014 and continues to work as a producer. Williams is not an anomaly across the United States as a small press corps prisoners telling stories that might otherwise never get told. Some right mostly for their fellow prisoners like kerry miles sentenced to life for 2nd degree murder a crime that he the victims family and the investigating detective all say he did not commit he spent 2 decades writing and editing a magazine the angle light produced out of a maximum security prison in the way. His sentence was commuted and he was released in 2060 i think ive wanted to do that i wanted to write since i was 5 years old and so when i was sent to the out of state penitentiary they. Told me into the prison print shop where i stayed for 5 years i got to know the editor i got to know the rest of the staff and when an opening came up i certainly took took the opportunity to do that the angle light is a chronic color of not only events that happens at the prison but the angle light has also been a conscience of the criminal Justice System in louisiana and. Policies nationwide than there are in maids whose journalism has jumped beyond prison rules John Jay Lennon is held at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in new york state hes serving a 28 years to life sentence for selling drugs and murder he writes speeches about life in prison for outlets like the Washington Post the new york review of books the Marshall Project and is even a contributing editor for esquire magazine. Story comes from the characters so im constantly in conversation with dr hears im sort of taking notes whether it be in the yard and you know i have my pen and pad and im talking to the person and then ill go back to my cell and ill sort of transcribe those notes on my typewriter you know i dont even really do too much of my own research whenever i see a story and something i think im bringing im looking at this the story is a little different from my angle right. Above the media setups in the u. S. Prison system right now san quentin is where prison is interested in journalism want to be theres a newspaper san quentin news theres the radio show on cops you can see the infield where we see video in here and theres the hip hop cost a house you can hear more dragging closest of all put used by inmates on the inside and its not just about the variety of media on offer prisoners at san quentin can even get something of a journalism education from professional reporters like former wall street journal tech reporter yukari cain these men have learned. How to be articulate have learned how to write well and they have become experts in criminal justice from the inside theyre personally affected by policy and law and important discussions that are happening now and and theres an opportunity for them to be part of the discussion and the debate outside not just through their own articles but through beds. And hearing these perspectives giving them a space in the main street is crucial. America has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world but nicu lack of transparency around prison conditions makes coverage from the outside especially challenging. In our interviews with John Jay Leno and kerry miles from Troy Williams the key point they cool kept coming back to it was their access to its own parallel they do the kind of reporting no one else can. Expose the practice of a state court of appeal. The 12 years had essentially thrown all pro se supervisory writs into the garbage can meaning of. A writ that was filed an appeal that was filed by a prisoner without a lawyer got exposed because the staff director committed suicide in his office and sent all the documentation to an attorney who happened to be a friend of mine had i been anywhere else no one would have cared we expose that practice and that practice. Changed i wrote a piece for the New York New York magazine and it was called publish the Marshall ProjectAndrew Goldstein is the new tory of sky the suffers from schizophrenia he was psychotic 20 years ago off of his meds and he pushed kendra webmail in front of the subway and that case sort of sparked kendras law which sort of mandated that people with schizophrenia have to take their medication and it gives them more help and i could tell the story i could interview him and thats what i did. Easy really like. Telling me stories isnt just about good reporting and access from the inside its completely dependent on maintaining the trust of present authorities many of the im a journalist that we spoke to said they did not experience direct censorship but they did acknowledge that there are certain limits on what they can report and those boundaries are 2nd moment said by prison Public Information officers. This is lieutenant sam robinson the Public Information officer it sank wednesday present and i approve this story at san quentin lieutenant sam robinson is the man with the final say we do you want the newspaper to be the voice of the man inside and since theyre away and i make a decision on not the ability of the article but whether there is something in it that may have an adverse impact on someone who lives here inside prison someone another facility are very dangerous public safety. Were not here to censor im not here a sense of the paper he gives us a lot of freedom to do exactly what it is that we need to do just because we came to prison doesnt mean that our rights and our citizenship stopped at the gate that i say everything right well let me check with sam sam had that sense. That you think i could be a Public Information officer in my day. Giving prisoners the opportunity to report their own stories isnt just a means of ravening the complex truths of prison life it provides a rehabilitation catharsis for some journalism as a way of life behind bars at the end of the day i guess. I would say im a storyteller and i look forward to telling stories and i will say you know i may live in prison but im no longer a criminal. It gave me an ability to think of myself outside of the box of just a prison that. I could put out through this media of a product that could change the face of how people are viewed in prison or even how we view ourselves in prison. When youve been deprived of speaking talking for years on end and someone says all of a sudden a man im going to tell your story there is where the magic weve got the might never. Finally writing headlines can be tricky and what you dont want to do is write one that makes headlines elsewhere for the wrong reasons when the Washington Post published its obituary for Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi the ice a leader killed by American Forces last week its 1st headline described him as on a steer religious scholar thousands of complaints later the al baghdadi headline was transformed out with the scholar in with the extremist leader by then though twitter was littered with parodies of possible post headlines and how the paper might describe a range of historical figures well leave you with a few of our favorites and well see you next time youre at the listening post. Jail you are at the mercy of the state but in the land of the free shareholders have a stake it is this profit motive that continues to interfere with Adequate Health care being provided to people who are detained and incarcerated across the country. Lines investigates how the outsourcing of health care. In american jails is impacting the lives and deaths of those behind bars sick inside. New yorkers are very receptive. Because it is such an International City they are very interested in that global perspective. Im sam its a with a look at the headlines here al jazeera at least 15 people have been killed in an overnight attack in thailand south suspected separatists are believed to be behind the shooting at the security checkpoint in yala province groups have carried out attacks in the muslim majority region since 2004. Has more from banco this attack targeted Defense Force volunteers the people from local communities who are trained by the tie military. By the Time Military base