Worse by its president no longer recession proof more than 1000000. 00 Health Care Jobs have been lost to the u. S. At an angle about cost 500000000000. 00 euro plan to save the european union. County the cost on aljazeera. This prediction is going to land an experience kerry calling out thank you. For story corps. Social Media Companies you want to stop this morning going out. And maybe. Hello im richard yes but if youre watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that were looking at this week the human to human transmission of conspiracy theories around covert 1000 why is it that so Many Americans actually believe the family behind fiats automobiles now controls one of italys largest newspapers and lobby publica has taken a turn to the right home schooling in peru broadcasters are learning new skills theyre teaching and a Public Service announcement that. Urgency emanates to keep their social distance let me with the lets look at the middle. East one. At a time that muslims traditionally come together what makes reporting this pandemic so challenging is that so much is still unknown often the way in which data is collected and interpreted is inherently flawed scientists are guiding politicians and journalists but there is no authority of Scientific Consensus even the origin of the virus is still being investigated throw in all the economic pain caused by the lockdowns the heavy handed policies of governments and the result in the masses can be feelings of fear anxiety and powerlessness perfect conditions for misinformation to thrive and conspiracy theories to grow. The u. S. Is ground 0 for most of those theories not just because the president and outlets like fox news have long trafficked in them theres a market there for conspiracy theories one that can turn and obscure a filmmaker and a discredited scientist into internet sensations are a starting point this week is the place conspiracies go fire on the world wide web. Page or fires york it. Reactivated virus expressions i dont believe for far too many people already do if they handed out Academy Awards for best performance by a discredited scientist in a Conspiracy Theory video judy microfinance from plant demick would win hands down very career his family or my reasons or is. It too late never mind that theres no actual evidence that the story that mike is its we use accusing members of socalled global elites like bill gates and dr anthony of conspiring to profit from an eventual vaccine has been viewed believed and reposed by milk the film is the viral sensation of covert 19 Conspiracy Theory and now. Has they already happened there back again 0 evidence at 1st glance it looks like a network news broadcast very slickly produced issues presented as sort of this brave troops going doctor for exposing their deadly secret that minions of big pharma waged war on dr michael that destroyed her good name career and personal life in reality shes going to this discredited doctor to research extract it but it was really embrace by various Conspiracy Theory groups that have Strong Networks on facebook these videos like anti vaccine groups and these q. And a conspiracy. They knew that their video was going to trip the terms of service on you tube and that you tube and other platforms were going to take it down for health miss and so when they did it they created a website with a downloadable video on it and urged every day people to react load it to their own social media and this kind of networked amplification as a tactic and the fire all ness of the video up question status and. Neutral cross platforms rather quickly for decades here in this country experts scientists and educators have been under attack for political and social purposes you know the planet renews itself and i guess doubtful the man is causing the warming and whenever you have that situation a lack of public faith thats when conspiracy theories fill that vacuum in this case we have a lot of different news outlets that have understood that there is an economic benefit to pushing conspiracy theories now im certainly fox news has sort of laid the groundwork for that. Fox is getting some help in that respect specifically from 2 online outlets talk time scientists communism. And one American News corp opaque and its mounting evidence of a global of conspiracy its which are even more right wing and pro donald trump than Rupert Murdochs channelings on covert 19 they have outfoxed the competition now emerging reported after their links between china. And the you ask fox takes a more measured approach to misinformation and alleged conspiracy during the day it sticks closer to the new. And the prime time evening broadcasts are where the networks true colors are on display when opinion mongers like sean hannity and Tucker Carlson do their thing and certainly would like to use this moment to elevate themselves and crush you thats where the ratings are and where the. For the past couple years box news has really sort of promoted these various conspiracy theories about the Us Government the Democratic Party the media mob that the state have been plotting there were a bad check that manifested itself. Leading to death count or think a dead cow gee is this sort of dylan undermining trounson is this the guy into whom you want to vast all of your cast. This is the guy you want to chore chart the future of the country so theres really this dialogue between ridge groups on the internet and fox news uniforms news isnt coming out and saying you know something as outlandish as people on the internet it isnt just right leaning media that does it i mean there there are people believe in conspiracy theories across the political spectrum but a lot of right leaning media have engaged in certain forms of coronavirus conspiracy theories or pushing the idea that the virus has had its effects country exaggerated you have been led to believe it every hospitals are overflowing their bodies there in body bags at refrigerated trucks every doctor i am i want ever. The internet provides conspiracy theories with the means to spread largely unchecked 911 was a false flag operation intended to authorize the doctrines and funds needed for a new level of imperial mobilization such theories offer what are known as selfsealing narratives tell a believer their theory is unproven theyll say the real truth is being here. Present documented evidence contrary to their beliefs and they will come back with the authorities cannot be trusted to tell the truth and there was the covert 900 story which bridges the worlds of politics and medical science institutions Many Americans already viewed with suspicion and as a foreign chinese angle has all the basic elements may. Any conspiracy theorists are looking for in an increasingly complex world. Conspiracy theories arise whenever a complicated issue is replaced by a simplified and you know its are just about gaining control over the future rays limiting population living with eris that was created in a lab and so in this case we have a lot of problems economically politically socially the idea of globalism is being a problem around the world these are really really complicated things imagine some years back and a Conspiracy Theory comes in and just very simply replaces all of that complexity and says there are people who are against you and there are people who are plotting against you the mental processes for many conspiracy theorists are not that different than the processes for everyone else trying to make sense of a chaotic world its just the problem is that they have a worldview in which conspiracies are likely explanations or events and circumstances in which the Mainstream Media is often lying or covering things up and they often turn to bring out lots of information getting exposed to ideas that are largely conspiratorial but by and large the way in which people start to encounter that healthiness information in speakon someone in one of their networks is shared it or hell be watching a news video on you tube in an algorithm that youre interested in whats very contemporary about that 19 then it gives you something thats from a popular conspiracy channel. Donald trump is americas conspiracists in chief he pushed dubious theories about barack obama long before trump became president what a solution. And he has been preaching about the dangers of the deep state ever since in that respect trump is a leader for these times donald trump uses conspiracy theories. Strategically and what we found when we polled people during the 2016 president ial primaries was that he was attracting a different kind of republican and were other more mainstream candidate people who already are disposed to conspiratorial thinking and he keeps them in his coalition by constantly feeding them conspiracy theories and constantly acting as if he and them are under threat by powerful forces. Its when the conspiratorially minded come up against the rest of society that the issues arise the confrontations between the right to work crowd and front line workers conflict judy my kids describes accurately in planned damage if not intentional its beyond. Our shores. Types. Where theyre just driving us to eat and to disbelieve each other to the extent that if and when a vaccine is finally available a lot of people will turn it down theres a real risk here we have a large swath of americans who will not take this vaccine you see this not only among the antivaccination people but of course among people who believe things like obama gate and the new world order conspiracy and play endemic and unfortunately its going to hinder the fight against the pandemic and its going to cause real damage. That would be the message to any conspiracy theorist who happens to be tuning in that your unproven beliefs could cost you your life and cost others their say but then youre watching this on the mainstream news media and we would say that wouldnt we. Were discussing other coronavirus related media stories now with one of our producers Nick Muirhead neck youve been looking at italy where the buyout of a major media Conglomerate Company called jedi which is proving controversy at one of the newspapers they dont in what way. The paper were talking about which it is a lot of public which is one of the leading davids in italy its Parent Company j. D. Was recently purchased by x. Or which is the investment arm of the in any family the in any to have multiple business interests but they probably best known for founding fit automobiles now with the change of ownership has come a shift in the coverage at lot of public and what coverage specifically on the coronavirus are we talking about so when x. Short of the an Aries Company took over jedi the editor at letter public col over to delhi who recently interviewed he was replaced he was fired and all of a sudden the paper along with the new editor started pushing an editorial line in favor of state aid for italian carmakers basically arguing that the Automobile Industry is crucial for a few to get out of the economic downturn caused by coronavirus now of course thats very much in the interests of fear and therefore the navy family that a public is a center left publication so how has the takeover and all of this gone down with journalists there as you can imagine not very well last month they went on strike to protest against the firing of delhi and then on monday they released a statement saying we believe topics linked to the owners economic interests should be treated with care we will monitor that the newspapers independence is preserved and then just last week gab learned hes a leading columnist at letter public he resigned saying that he doesnt recognise the paper anymore but i think that the port issue here richard is Media Diversity in including the bulk of news outlets already lean to the right and now with the nearly takeover of a lot of public the concern is that that imbalances only going to be exacerbated ok thanks nick. In many countries its still far too early to send children back to school take more than 100000 confirmed cases among latin american countries only brazil has more one area where peru seems to a fared better than other countries struck by covert 19 is education within 3 weeks of declaring a National Lockdown the peruvian government commandeered public and private Broadcasters Television and radio to broadcast a planned though and casa or i learned at home 6 hours a day every weekday the goal to make the entirety of both the primary and secondary School Curricula available to all students including the millions who are without television and Internet Access the listening posts minox you ravi now on a parental and castle the t. V. And radio platform that school peruvian kids through the one. They made only in a few of them last about in the biggest employer in the beginning of march im putting months for us at the ministry of education its the time when we ensure conditions are optimal for school isnt going to reopen this year the reopening date was set for march 16th. Eliminate. That with the minutes unless youre not. As it turned out that was around the same time the Coronavirus National emergency was declared i. Guess and i mean nothing. At that time i was the presenter on t. V. Morning News Programme our focus was to communicate the magnitude of the pandemic. And i think every one of them and then one day i got a call from the chairman of the net one of he told me schools were being shot and so the Education Ministry had asked t. V. Program to produce a day. Catered education from home program put in their own class and then got. The then he said im calling you because youre going to be one of the presenters well since im a woman who likes a challenge i said lets do it. But i. I cant recall a situation before this in which private and public media have come together for the shared cause of education my mother was going to get you a place you know most Media Outlets have a sense of Public Service if they dont then theyre making poor use of their broadcasting license that are going to show. These days school days in who are different from 8 30 am until and then again from 2 pm to 6 classes are taught to be in the state broadcaster read your t. V. Piru private Media Outlets have been brought in on the lockdown Winning Campaign as well they air some of the classes on their channels the coordinated approach has been key to getting the widest reach across the country. Thus the program up in the one casa or i learned home has suddenly become the centerpiece in what is a Technology Dependent system of home schooling the kids who do the most what are the foremost in books would do this almost if this one must juden sanai we use whats up in books zoom email and of course appealing doing custom which is the basis for everything. Every day i tell my students to watch the daily episode on t. V. And then to read the material associated. After the post assignments on facebook as well as on our whats up group the children can ask me questions via email or sometimes theyll just call me on whatsapp or zoom and we can drill down into the details of your disabled also well be up out of the gaza and i receive audio clips about brando and cuss and catch which is the language we speak here in this area i have audio clips sent me because many of my students cant receive the radio signal in their homes i get the clips i listen to them and then i share the information with my students over phone calls Text Messages whats up for those who have it and i also film some short videos of lessons for my students that it. Has been hit hard by the called 900 pandemic the countries locked down misplaced and strict but case numbers have soared amidst all the bad news up in the wind looks like a broadcasting experiment gone right. What do you know your mini us media many of us but in knowing what it is that you only need very real to me to buy the ministry of education the program doesnt aim to replicate the classic school day that would be impossible instead why dont topics in issues are chosen to stimulate discussion reflection and to build knowledge in core subjects like language yeah i see but in most of the day also a text or sleep is to be looking better plus he was not the matter in the end there. And they were not going to get the specific up and sign and they brought. Up all their wealth of us all about a problem of going to us here 3 point out that i want to have back. We have certain advantages in delivering education through t. V. We have a whole team behind us could. Uses directors lighting experts its their job to make things appealing to keep children stimulated through the music images and background. For both we work very closely with a teaching coach he instructs me about how to communicate with children. Even for us and believe. Me my little. Much more and also can offer my most techniques a crucial and it helps me to work with the teaching expert dont they were. Watching the t. V. Broadcasts im struck by how dynamic the presenters are as photo if it is not as they brought a girl in though thats not as good and all the way that is about the subtle at the same time you know both the rather must get them a little miracle in their thought of alabama so it costs less to send. T. V. Has lots of resources and theyre making the most of them a teacher in a classroom does not have such resources of course if i had them use them glad you do we got going for them and of course and though. Not all the students are getting the same learning opportunities the social and economic inequalities in our vast nearly 21 percent of the population lives in poverty mostly outside the cities in ruby room where Internet Access is spotty there are mountainous villages and towns that even radio interdistrict t. V. Signals cannot reach and those arent the only considerations out of the long term goals of nowadays there are a lot of discussions about the phenomenon of education poverty our task was to provide educational material for Spanish Speaking students non spanish speakers and students with disabilities the other issue we had to consider is that we have gaps gaps in digital connectivity gaps in access to resources this is why we designed a printer and. Across different types of media although the internet can probably provide a more complete experience we wanted to serve the largest number of students and decided must include television and radio when im hungry or. When the children i teach have nowhere near the same resources that children and cities have for example when it rains or there are changes in the weather the t. V. Radio and internet signals which are already very weak just stop working altogether the children send me images of their screens miss this is whats coming up i cant connect what do i do i feel powerless because i dont know what to do i call them try to explain the lesson through phone calls or messages but theres always a void left. By your. As the country looks to ease its lockdown. Use of a back to school date officials are being cautious it could be june the ac or september but even when that day comes schools are unlikely to turn to their people endemic ways. Like the countless numbers of employees around the world who know the allies they can work from home who he is now know that they can to a great extent learn from home. And though in casa aspects of it at least is probably here to stay. You could have a lot less any sort of look i think that the public and private broadcasters are a powerful resource in an emergency situation like this one but my personal opinion is that the education in peru is an embarrassment as we know in a way families that dont have the resources for private education or who arent lucky enough to live in a region with good Public Education are denied opportunities the media are great in times of a Global Pandemic but they cannot be seen as the solution by our government. Not the whole you have to seek it all keep our doubts yes dont get to say what i think. Now with the pinned on costs at the start of a new process we have an opportunity to take a fresh look at education what should children really be learning at school what about what we teach them through socialization how much should they be learning from the internet we have a great chance to create the kind of society we aspire to but to get that we need to work from the ground up. And societys foundations are its children. And finally this weekend is outfit marking the end of the muslim holy month ramadan it hasnt been easy this year since ramadan is normally a time for families to come together and not isolate and the challenges in yemen a country with a humanitarian crisis are that much greater the number of coronavirus cases there is mercifully low for now at least and the yemenis would like to keep it that way so a Money Transfer a company there called Aqua Exchange came up with a Public Service announcement bringing together a group of singers and actors to encourage social distancing the song is called we wont visit you you wont visit us its an attempt to inject a little fun into an ied celebration that will be far from ideal well see you next time youre at the listening. To. The live look. At an event. You know. The fellowship which i spent. The night. With. 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