A bailout 14000000. 00 auto workers in europe have been told to stay at home we talked to b. M. W. About the future of the industry but the Airlines Fight for their survival as governments impose problems come to the cost on others or. This disconnect between what were hearing from the scientists or the pressure of the United States senate to the democrats to try to turn a virus into a political attack president trying to i think ill be talking. With. Eric. Hello im Richard Ginsberg and youre at the listening post among the media stories that were covering this week donald trump this information and the coronavirus the white house and its sidekicks at fox news have been producing fake news of the most dangerous karl i feel like the more i learn about this the less there is a story i was saying china throws out more american journalists as the media. Addle between beijing and washington heats up and uprising in lebanon where protesters want to bring down the political establishment and that includes the news media and the biggest captive audience ever so many people in lockdown producing so many quality mean with the coronavirus grinding life to a halt around the world the millions holed up at home people are desperately searching for reliable information but what if 2 primary sources of news the government and the most watched Television News channel are setting aside medical science in favor of politically driven fiction thats what americans are dealing with for 3 years now President Trump has had the Fact Checkers working overtime but the stream of dissent from ation on covert 19 flowing from the white house has not only misled the public on the severity of the threat it has put lives at risk then theres fox news the channel politically aligned with donald trump its initial attempt to frame the pandemic as a hoax designed to take down the president has also been exposed as infection rates climb and the death toll mounts trump finds himself confronted with some facts scientific ones that not even he can deny youll notice a slightly different look to the following piece skype interviews lockdown style its part of the story our starting point this week is washington. Post our prediction about the coverage of the corona virus and misinformation it was made about 3 weeks ago on americas most watched news channel economic and emotional and home by misinformation is going to have much harder this virus and found of all the networks to sound the alarm about colbert 19 and misinformation that sound bite was on fox news it definitely is quite ironic us news has been a steady source of misinformation. The provirus peddling the idea that its no big deal the more i learn about this. There is torie i was about the same thing i was so the irony is not lost that fox news calling against misinformation while spreading. It would be difficult to understate the fox news factor in americas misinformation problem fox has taken a similar approach to the way it covered other white house scandals like russia and the subsequent impeachment hearings downplaying the seriousness of all ukraine impeachment saga pouring arctic wonder stand apparently goes on for attacking trumps critics as politically driven sham show and applied it to a Public Health emergency having so many people listen to one massive new source for information thats going to have that sort of bevels through people that you know are connected to their proximity are still going about their daily lives as if this is not happening. By a number of us and fox news that week that its not as serious as it actually is. The fox effect can be measured a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that fox news viewers are almost 5 times as likely as m. S. N. B. C. Viewers to believe that the media have greatly exaggerated the threat of the coronavirus given that fox is audience is the oldest of the Major Networks and therefore the most vulnerable the channels coverage is truly dangerous fox has moved on from initially playing the story down succumbing as the president has to reality coronavirus every virus as we have been telling you you must take it seriously but it took far too long in the network which thats where going to donald trump long ago and its coverage has mirrored the president s shifting position on the coronavirus story media dot com monitors broadcast News Coverage in the u. S. It bolted together a chronology of Donald Trumps soundbites on covert 19 over. A 6 week period as the number of cases in the u. S. Climbed alarmingly trucks message changed drastically how concerned. Are we pretty much shut it down a lot of people think that goes away in the next couple of days is going to be down to close to 0 theres huge cheers there wont spread its going to disappear one day its like a miracle for most everybody that we see is Getting Better but that it could be everybody should take that back scenes i think relatively so. Theyre not taking this seriously enough and that some of your statements dont matter what your goal thats what youre saying the singer that. Really works you know. The good things are going to happen you know i dont take responsibility at all but its something that we have tremendous control of i dont want to tell you how would you rate your response to this crisis. I dreaded it. Just a few days ago he really started using words like pandemic he said its really bad he acknowledges out of control but something years one began making him speak about it gently there have been reports that one of the fox personalities also who hes close to did start taking it seriously and we havent faced a medical crisis like this in living memory was talking to the president about how he did she change shes demeanor on it his message on a trunk and his allies try and manipulate the rhetoric and shift blame but they cannot manipulate the virus with the misinformation and we do have a free press here in the United States that will continue on their part out statistics of confirmed cases and rates and even though it will be getting that information trump and right wing media will definitely continue to shift the blame its particularly dangerous to lie in a crisis like this or to get people to do what they dont want to do to get collective action out of a group of people that have different ideas of what should happen you need a strong center. Authority who people trusts that has their best interests in mind by lying of course removed that element of trust. The Trump Administration had a trust issue with the governments own scientists although that too is changing in the early stages the white house was doing most of the briefings and dispatched its economic officials to calm the markets but the actual medical experts at the centers for Disease Control the c. D. C. Were initially sidelined anthony felt she who heads the National Institute of Infectious Disease is doing more public speaking now but as recently as march 1st when he had 5 different interviews set for the sunday morning talk shows the white house told him to stand down in favor of those fishnets like Vice President ial mike pence im very confident were ready the administration has been silence and scientific voices at the very start of its administration objectively in regards to Climate Change and environmental protections theyve been dismantling the Scientific Agency is particularly in this case trout had just now called the office that would have been of working on Pandemic Response to be fair. The c. D. C. And a number of other executive Branch Agencies have a fairly long history of increasingly being reluctant to discuss things with the public or the price directly this was true during the Obama Administration as well journalists could no longer speak to officials from the c. D. C. Of course in the troubled history of this is gotten exponentially worse but it would be unfair to say that this was a trump innovation that weve seen sort of a litany of. Lies really from the administration. Of science and when it comes to Climate Change of course thats a huge issue thats sort of a long term. Bigger picture thing right now the administrations antiscience talking points over the 19 were going to be going out and meeting people are going to get scared if they are listening to mr asian. In being elected to office and managing to stay there donald trump has proven that facts dont matter the way they used to that lies just dont stick to president s the way they wants to but the coronavirus story is difficult its about medical science 1st politics 2nd the facts are right there in the numbers the body counts and they are in contest could it be the Donald Trumps fake news narrative has finally been exposed met its match in something he has never had much time for science every word of these i just said that you know so much about this maybe i have a natural ability maybe i should have done that instead of running for president both would be nice to think that its meant as match once external reality hits it however im much more skeptical of the broader breakdown is that people are accepting that criticism even good faced criticism is a sign of anything that there is you cannot take criticism without assuming that the critic is your opponent politically so in an ideal situation yes one would say that look this is reality we have to reject the lights but it is not preordained outcome that in fact the lies may defeat the truth even when the truth is obvious this is a buyer is not a Political Movement and it doesnt have an ideology and it doesnt care about your ideology it just has a way of attacking our our bodies. Lack of clarity he attempts to not really grapple with the threat that the whole world is facing us just time. And maybe it cost lives. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar with one of our producers minox rafi mena news broke this week that the Chinese Government is expelling at least 13 american journalists from the country lets start with who is getting deported richard these are journalists who have covered china for years people like amy chin and palmer sort of the New York Times the other newspapers whose journalists are being expelled are the Washington Post and the wall street journal now Chinas Foreign Ministry announced on tuesday that these journalists would have to turn in their press cards and have to leave in 10 days other media organizations such as Time Magazine and voice of america which is a u. S. Government funded outlet have been allowed to remain but must adhere to strict rules they have to provide in writing Key Information about their staff finances operations and real estate in china now theres been plenty of tension between washington and beijing over the covert 1000 pandemic and its origins trump for instance has labeled it the chinese vitus but this battle over Media Outlets goes further than that this is just the latest in a long running tit for tat between the 2 countries involving one anothers journalists chinas latest move is a direct response to the trumpet ministrations decision last month to classify 5 Chinese State media organizations operating in the us as Foreign Missions theres also a big story coming out of pakistan the arrest of a media baron there now the pakistani media are often at odds with the authorities the country never does well in those global press rankings but still this arrest represents a Significant Development it does especially for those who hope that the election of imran khan in 2018 as Prime Minister would mean an improvement for pakistani journalists now the media owners are tested is need shock a lot of man he is the c. E. O. And editor in chief of the junk group now the jungle stands largest private. Media organization it owns numerous newspapers and t. V. Stations including geo news one of the most popular all the language t. V. Stations in the world now one was arrested last week on charges relating to land he bought 34 years ago its an ongoing case hes been attending all the hearings so this arrest prompted protests from pakistani journalists who see it as nothing more than an attack on press freedom now weve reported before on how juniors has been a frequent target of the authorities for its Critical Coverage not just of the government but also the military juniors has repeatedly been taken off the air sometimes mid broadcast and some of their top journalists have accused the authorities of being behind attacks against them sometimes even on their lives of thanks alina. Were turning to lebanon now which is declared a coronavirus state of emergency this is in a country thats already 5 months into a series of antigovernment demonstrations the biggest since lebanon won its independence back in 1903 the protest movement bridges classes and sects citizens are revolting against a political system that is defined by sectarian identity and has failed to provide them with the economic basics its an ongoing story that has also revealed much about the failure of lebanons Media Outlets too many of which are skewing the very coverage since they are split along the same lines the politicians are were looking at one news site that said to change the media mix and mess with mainstream news narratives megaphone is an Online Platform that produces punchy social videos and boundary pushing Opinion Pieces critical takes on the news and the way its been covered the listening posts terek nothing now from beirut on a news outlet thats tapping into voices left out by the mainstream. Bring down somebody who works for the past 5 months has been the everything all been uprising that has taken leverage on to his political pull people who have had enough of a dysfunctional power sharing system a broken economy and in their selfserving believe they have a mantra which is good and not a good look were not going to be all of them which means doing away with the entire. Which include establishment media. Isnt that. Banana strap on a no. No to. Feed. Stock the phone. They were nonexistent and then suddenly they were to go to the go to use outta there. Yes i might not. Get home. For me on the plane is so good at bay by the way. They opened that was a space for many of the thinkers and opinion leaders in lebanon make a fun weekend ya know what it is so typical. Megaphone and its not the only media outlet chronicling lebanons uprising but it is the most dynamic through the protests started in october 29th seen the collective was producing round true videos among the uprising demanded more megaphones mostly volunteer john many of whom work a day job. To keep up with the rhythm of the street. They were soon publishing as many as 2 or 3 videos a day including an unedited snapshots from the street and street talk which amplified voices of the uprising. And. The content of slickly produced and has occasional megaphones videography in the crosshairs of the authorities. It is often barbaric we have people on our team who were physically attacked just because they were carrying a camera but i dont believe that these methods will silence any of our primary aim is to target a specific age group who no longer get their news from television or newspapers because they are disgusted by the rhetoric and also because the former is simply not appealing to many made them innocent not. That the street surprised us and we were shocked at how politicized people became and how much they wanted to consume political content. And this forced us to address issues more responsibly and with output that is more critical than before. And then like i mentioned. We are trying to produce something that empowers people who were previously disconnected from politics to follow understand news developments and of course to react and eventually hold politicians accountable. Eventually. One of microphones my successful formats came from my frustration with politicians getting too much time and too little pushback from our mostly. Speech deconstruction skewers politicians with their own words. The shams. And then the police. Exposing for example the ways in which they have tried to plant fear about the protests when. Television gave these people the freedom to give speeches for as long as they want without giving anyone the opportunity to respond it was a popular format because it hasnt truly been done before in other media there is no need for the audience to watch politicians to our address they were able to understand the bottom line and at the same time deconstruct and challenge arguments being made by politicians family of argument or tactical. Critical journalism can be hard to come by in a country where politics business and media are well mainly a Family Affair just 12 found me most of which are directly involved in politics control close to 50 percent of the media the remaining 50 percent are run by Political Parties all the state in lebanon media of politics by other means but one channel has taken more flak for its coverage than any other oh t. V. Is the mouthpiece of present. And michel our own and his party the Free Patriotic Movement the channel routinely depicts protesters who look at prints of violent means. To monitor what i do. Not clearly what 5 im. Getting get but also a part of the conspiracy of the opposition as part of a foreign funded plot look im not claiming that but if he does not have a point if you were guarding socalled evolution actually no means is neutral i dont think theres no need to. See if we had of needs both of you to present a certain political view which is known from its name and from its political love belonging however it has been fed in its coverage but you cannot control completely any guest that appears on air either on the ground or in our studios and maybe sometimes some of our guests have said things which we do not but people in the street link them directly. As if you station definitely. Received the most heat in terms of their Media Coverage and the extent of it from the tory record from the views of it not to be over the top which is really people up course at one point because of how much heat they had they had to comment on brand of microphones. But also their horseplay though in a very Important Role helping the political leaders and the elite kind of reshape themselves in light of these protests. The lebanese Media Outlets have taken such an aggressive position against the uprising b. C i just did and seemed really cool and strong the person i spoke when they began and october last year their coverage was wall to wall and a significant portion of it was sympathetic with correspondents around the country playing the role of interview a couple therapist im doing an open mind to protest is to let it rip. The focus of coverage were never going to allow levanon family made up of powerful businessman and formal warlords most of whom own the countrys biggest Media Outlets if the debts survive i think channels like l b c and i should be moderated thats hard and some would say going back to doing what media in lebannon do best. Platform for politicians all these outlets are run by businessman or politicians or people with political ambitions of sorts so there is a certain pressure that they have in order to maintain their legitimacy of the surely lebanon among the elite however the way that they have given the space for major politicians and bankers and so on is beyond you or the right of reply at the beginning of the year of the revolution or the uprising the the majority of the t. V. Stations in lebanon they were one sided they were only covering the point of view of the people who are with that evolution and who are saying lets say all the political spectrum in lebannon media has to reflect the change not make the change the media has to cover the change. It does not have to make a change or it will become politically motivated media. Which is far from being fair and from being professional. Might be more convincing if lebanese media werent so resistant to change so utterly compromised unable to touch themselves from the. Unwilling to the church on lebanons elite. Lebanons media like its politics broken a reckoning with richard that if i could with it is very difficult for one to think about political change without a fundamental change to people source of information when journalism confront some challenges the fairest official narratives put forward by the sects all the parties all the factions then we can actually change the rules of. Again in this country so it is not a detail the media is a fundamental pillar in this process whose role is to deconstruct a regime that has lost too long and cost the country too much or too big challenge Going Forward is that because we called lost faith in traditional media is how for us journalists are trying to create alternatives that are based on accurate reporting investigative work inclusive narratives is how without trust back because now what were seeing that people are relying on means things shared on lots. And lots of rumors they dont want to look at me traditional media anymore as long as the media landscape remains the way it is and you cannot expect any significant change in the. Finally imagine if this corona virus story took place 30 years ago youd have hundreds of millions of people around the world stuck in their homes with no internet to connect to each other just phone calls letters even the World Wide Web has made this social distancing thing a lot more social videos have been showing up in all of our affiliates of the many creative ways that people are keeping themselves entertained while in isolation boil them down and the basic message is you can quarantine us you can put us in lockdown but the memes will keep on coming well see you next time youre at the listening post you know they are going to notice and im going to let me just say much of this is one hour a. Day. From. Google. Hidden away in the room a 1000000 japanese on the outside world one o one east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on aljazeera. People have come to expect a lot from aljazeera over the years reporting the commitment to on the reporter places the commitment to the human story. But its also the idea of challenging those in power if a politician comes on this channel they will be challenged and thats what people expect of us they want the questions answered. That is what people waste but we will continue to do. The coronavirus spend demick spocks tabulates in the global Aviation IndustrySingapore Airlines is grounding almost all its fleet and the u. A. E. Suspends all passenger flights. This is al jazeera live from our Global Headquarters in doha also ahead signs pointing to the 2020 tokyo big speeding bus bones canada says it will not send out at least to the games this summer