Readings in the salyut us there are many things threatening the United States freedom of the press these days hawk watchers from Government Agency infiltration be a retired intelligence and security agents like John Brennan James clapper running around cable news rooms influencing news stories as pundits and experts to major Government Contractors like multibillionaire jeff bezos buying a major news outlet like the Washington Post but those are the show youre more center stage examples theres actually another more insidious major threat to our press these days and its name is wall street and its crushing local newspapers across the country olympia snow smith writes and take on wall street that all over the country private equity and hedge funds have been scooping up these cash strapped papers and looting them into irrelevance or bankruptcy in fact between 20042800 United States lost. More than a 5th of the local newspapers in newsrooms at these local newspapers they lost half of their employers employees between 20082018 while the local news is being beaten to a pulp by wall street its the fictional antics of a comic book character that has the nation on edge and speaking of course about the joker yes the controversial film has been making headlines over fears that the films plotline featuring a disaffected and bullied white man turning to Mass Violence could inspire real life disaffected bullied white men in their committing acts of violence even the United States military is now afraid of the film gizmodo reports that the u. S. Militarys warned Service Members about the potential for a mass shooter at screenings of the Warner Brothers film joker Service Members were instructed to remain aware of their surroundings and identify to escape routes when entering theaters in the event of a shooting they were instructed to run hide fight. Somewhere somehow or Warner Brothers p. R. Department is smiling with glee so all our media is being taken over by wall street and our leaders are being taken over by the incell clown posse i think its time to start watching the hawks. Its. Like you know i got. The memo on watching the hawks i am tyrrel been terms of a report dialogue over debate as to how to waltz myself bring you 2 distinct and informative discussions between a variety of topics and grass with unique political viewpoints starting with my very own perception perspective. Joining me today is the cohost of boom bust and the burrito r t america boom bust producer brant job or an r t america correspondent john hardy thank you guys for joining me thank you for the boom bust team for coming out and daniel i want to start and ask you actually these big private equity firms like all the global new Media Investment group who are buying up all these local papers all around the country and then slashing and burning them essentially how are they making money off of these scorched earth tactics like why are they even getting involved what whats the prize for them right now its a familiar formula similar to the essentially the same playbook that we saw in the 1980 s. Where people would corporate raiders would find need to stress kompany you know raid it divest it and then just get rid of the body essentially when they were done draining the blood and thats essentially whats happening in a similar way with these newspapers corporate conglomerates like as you mention. Although in acquiring the denver post a Gatehouse Media recently acquired gannett and they basically they go in they pile up debt they look at where we can cut costs thats labor is a big cost so you end up in this virtual vicious cycle i should say of staff cuts leading to less coverage leaving less interest and its and we see that happening and this essentially just rips apart local journalism and local journal is important and i want to ask you you know john and brad like how important is local journalism and are these local newspapers and the fact that were losing them is pretty dangerous as it is it absolutely is and you know what to Daniels Point i worked at i worked in radio before i came to television and the same thing happened with radio as you mentioned in the eightys they got the best of Companies Like Clear Channel now our media purchased up all of these especially small market radio stations markets what we would call about 50 to 250 because they were able to buy them dirt cheap they could fire most of the employees have 3 people working in the station and theyre not doing what they were built to do which is serve the public good and local radio not quite as important as your local newspaper but news radio stations keep you apprised with weather and everything thats going around in your town as well and we would see this and they would buy them and then they would of course find out they couldnt make money on it because they werent putting any money into it they would salame and then to back to a local buyer for dirt cheap and it was investigated journalism but usually gets caught right away is not i mean usually thats like one of the biggest expenses of them gets her hacked up its going to put yeah i started my career in print i was a local News Reporter i started in los angeles but then i looked more for a small paper in idaho and work in new mexico local news is vital you know the big papers arent necessarily going to be covering those local ag stories in 20 falls idaho and the massive very operation thats polluting the ground water and maybe that time. Or the post isnt going to be coming in there and doing a series of investigative pieces about that and i work for one paper that this exactly happened to a massive you know Major Company took control and not so much the paper i worked for but others were slashed were cut jobs were cut it went into chapter 11 and reorganized and on and on it goes and i got out of print i went i made the jump to the to the dark side. Because in 2004 the recession hit the jobs dried up there are hiring freezes across the board and so i mean with a tear in my eye i got out of print because i saw the writing on the wall sadly its true too because we even you know when youre talking National News interNational News although we feed that feeds us so its a feeder system ultimately you know a local story about corruption or whatever maybe may lead in the bigger corruption and then thats when the bigger the bigger papers and the more National Stuff comes and theres a good story lets see how it plays on a bigger scale and so when you cut the legs like cutting the legs off of good Investigative Journalism you see this happening over and absolutely and what you see now is sadly. Independent journalists are having to pick up that slack and they dont have the funding they dont have the time i mean sometimes you see people from d. C. In new york having to go out like we saw this with the Dakota Access i mean while it wasnt being covered i mean it was being covered on a local level but you see these independent journalists who are actually able to go there and dig deep into it to spread that story around the nation and thats what local journalism is supposed to do but in bismarck and Fargo North Dakota i mean its amazing that i dont even know today if they still have a daily paper they may only be out for 5 days a week now which is going to happen a lot around and i want to i want to move us over we. Want to move over to the should we be afraid of the plot of a movie in this case the joker should we be afraid of the movie to the extent that we are many of the u. S. Military now warning. People about going to see the theaters to see those movie jobs there would you should we really be afraid of his movie im looking forward to it i mean im going to go see it im going to phone going to go to the theater just because i get annoyed by people in the theater so thats just my own problem im not necessarily concerned about being shot so no i dont think so its a movie i understand there are concerns and i mean for the u. S. Military to be putting out is really unbelievable the f. B. I. To the f. B. I. Has is monitoring online chatter and monitoring any any Online Activity for any threats or anything like that its incredible that this day and age we you know a movie is going to you know generate this kind of not only buzz how about just the fact is it a good movie or is it just being hyped up because of this or is it actually legitimately does Joaquin Phoenix do a fantastic or an oscar worthy or if you know what i thought i know some of them go for. A batman comics fan and so as just as a fan i dont plan to see the movie i just deepens my doubts about the way theyve managed the d. C. Extended universe. But you know setting the fanboy concerns aside you know its understandable that i think theres a lot of misunderstanding people who arent in it who dont know comic books and dont also dont know just the modern subculture of disaffected young men that surrounds this they dont know the context and so theres a lot of fear that doesnt quite understand exactly what theyre scared about you can understand theres been a lot of Mass Shootings there are a lot of disaffected young men out there but you know one of the commentators have listened to on this is those legally who goes the struggle session podcast about sort of fan boy. From you know a progressive perspective and hes he raised the point that people should not be so quick to perhaps give pop culture over to the right or are nihilists perhaps in this case that. You know that we shouldnt necessarily say ok well lets let the pet they take ownership of this disaffected character that ever comes up you know its interesting but i dont i want to ask you this because its interesting to me we had movies in our past this movie it actually is kind of based on 2 major movies taxi driver king a comedy these movies released in the seventys when there was a lot of turmoil and all that kind of thing have we become less adults like you could release movies that dealt with hard subject matter back then but now suddenly oh were just we cant handle it well i think i dont know what people want to see from these films if this is a problem for them you know we have theres a lot of films about Mental Illness and unless youre locked up in an institution or something or crying in your bed then we dont think thats Mental Illness this is a whole nother form of talking about Mental Illness when my favorite movies in that genre is falling down the Michael Douglas film from early ninetys i believe but there were a lot of movies like that i dont think we see them as much anymore of people completely on raveling because the weight of the world has become too much for them and thats a reality of the world that we live in today and i feel like a lot of people when they criticize this type of film theyre saying no that doesnt happen thats not a real life situation and i only want happiness in my entertainment which is an absolutely ridiculous i thought i think this is the type of i mean obviously the violence is strong but its a movie its based on a character that daniel said who is already kind of has a violent yeah but. This is a reality of the way people feel yes its traumatized and made to be. A huge right but the fact is people feel like this every day that the world does not work for them and they should go out and kill people but it does make you feel like you have no choice and should we should we actually spend less time worrying about the real impact of a film a piece of art and more worried about ok well what brought us to a point where were actually worried about people who see this might be influenced by lets actually start looking at that and looking at all of the issues with society that made that happen in the 1st place you know young white males out there that might react badly to. Gun violence i mean after falling down which was a movie i see people banding their cars on the floor of the freeway including myself as much as i wanted to any time last time i saw i did last time i saw Something Like this was when Natural Born Killers came out and there sadly was copycat crimes by that but lets actually look at whats causing these kids to fall into that trap rather than blaming and going after the movie i want to thank you all for coming on absolutely leisure all right everybody is going to break watchers dont forget to let us know what you think of the topics to cover to be sure to check out watching our podcast which is now very one spotify apple can everywhere you listen the podcast coming up top of the wall it opens up the gallery on mass shooting drills at u. S. Schools and parents fear over the jokers influence over their kids and what to see that the watching the whole. Problem how wrong. Yes. And i think that impedes the elections will be the most. Recent American History because the stakes are incredibly party for both sides. Trump this stake is just implementation of his domestic politics but actually avoiding prison for the democrats of the stake is if we think even deeper crisis of the party and even basic survival of the traditional if the problem will suffice for both playing. Rugby and that comes out of. The set up one among them. A fine after 90. Not the high i my. Luncheon in front of the sun shone. From totally unknown to me just a lot of the. Fans here is someone who did the board. Leak didnt do anything. To. Thank you. Thank. You. Safety can be as simple as a. B. C. Always be careful but what does it mean when always be careful becomes always be terrified with over 20 deadly shoot School Shootings and 21000 alone parents and teachers across the United States are being told the key to keeping your children safe is through active Shooter Drills earlier this year during an active Shooter Drill an Elementary School in indiana teachers described an exercise in which they were asked by local Law Enforcement to meall down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning witnesses also told indiana lawmakers that the local sheriffs conducting the drill told them this is what happens when you just cower and do nothing the outrage from parents in the scientific studies tracking the Emotional Trauma and effectiveness of these drills hasnt stopped them this week in ohio Franklin High School in Warren County parents and students were told that during a controlled drill students and staff will be practicing barricaded in classrooms and evacuating the building in addition officers fired blanks from a shotgun and a rifle in total 2 officers fired 13 rounds each during the course of the drill Warren County Police Lieutenant gary massey said parents were informed of the grounds before it took place many feel it only traumatized the children and does nothing to stop a School Shooter who is most likely amongst the very children taking part in the drill and in movie news this week joker starring Joaquin Phoenix isnt just making the u. S. Military put out warnings but actual movie theaters as well the Alamo Drafthouse in austin texas posted then deleted a note on their Facebook Page stating this is not a joke joker is r. Rated and for good reason theres lots of fair. Very rough language brutal violence and overall bad vibes its a gritty dark and realistic taxi driver asked depiction of one mans descent into madness its not for kids and they wont like it anyway there is no batman so lets take a gander at the world of fake violence and real trauma and step into the gallery. Thanks. Thanks for joining me now is the host of news use hughes got email use an r t america correspondents fair and fronsac and rachel thank you so much for joining me today so ladies one of the things that as parents and psychologists concerned is this push for kids to be prepared to fight during Shooter Drills and or if theyre being attacked if theyre in that situation i want you guys to want to look at a clip from an Elementary School safety video here in the u. S. Take a look at this it is frightening and barricaded are not actions fight yell at the attacker or attackers throw objects and be aggressive this should be your last resort but it is something you should be prepared to do. Im going to start with the mom at the table is that what no. Absolutely not in fact any with the same person that came up with the idea of shooting bullets even even fake rounds into a school of Elementary School or high school probably can have that video and they should be fired immediately that right there causes so much trauma im traumatized just listen youre going to someone told my children that they need to fight like that im saying no you run you hide and hopefully you can protect others but you do not in any way engage that shooter yet you got so i i dont have kids i have nieces and nephews while i dont agree with going and attacking the shooter i come from the standpoint that when you have a lot of these School Shootings you often hear kids where they say well i thought it was firecrackers i dont know what it was and i think while it is traumatizing that kids hear what bullets sound like they need to know what they sound like because thats because that i think thats the reality of the situation today is you have kids where they dont know they all have video games so heres implode video game one thing thats also look at it from the standpoint of you have a little kids that are learning about guns from the standpoint of being innocent children in school and theyre lying about them from the Police Officers shooting them so why dont we take kids out of the gun range teach about about gun safety teach them how guns actually should be used so good as they ever find themselves in an incident like that maybe they will know that its a gun instead of a firecracker but at the same time we should be teaching them this fear and teaching them that the only time were going to see a gun is when its an active shooter or its a Police Officer that does not that are good for us right and i think thats something that kind of i think theres a confusion in the messaging because there is this idea that theres no problem guns are fine in their hands of the right people but we are constantly showing them the you know this idea and giving them this this sort of idea that theyre you know if you see a gun if you hear a gun now i understand the idea of they have to know what it sounds like or. So they dont freak out an audio tape of it if that if youre that concerned about heres what gets me on this and yes our Parents Group they had the nuclear bomb drove they had to go we grew up with a tornado just i dont like it that our children are having to go through these drills but guess what they do and there is a course of you do talk them through at least in the parents know this but it sounds like they did it 1st and then told the parents by the way were also going to be shooting blanks conversations happened going into this going that side of it this all across the board is a very bad idea night the point that you point out more than likely that she was going to be in that school right there so theyre getting the same training of what to avoid so therefore it is not making a point whatsoever except to cause more fear the same time you also look at the fact that you know any time we have a school that talks about Arming Teachers the Media Coverage of that is incredibly negative it talks about well how dare you give teachers guns thats not going to fix the problem but at the same time if a student is in a classroom and hes thinking about going and shooting the school up hes not going to do it if you notice if the teachers are armed arguably a lot of times when the School Shootings happen and happen in cases where the should know that theyre essentially shooting into a fishbowl because none of those kids can defend one of them doesnt know they dont have to know but there could be the suspicion suspicion alone especially the sage is a necessary trust me just as my kids the suspicion that im reading their Text Messages keeps the budget im sure it goes a lot farther than that with most yeah i think theres a bunch of stuff that kind of gets a little weird about whether or not you know how much do you let kids know about the realities have guns. You know games like right now i mean whats the biggest one right now this fortnight and theyre shooting at each other theyre shooting crossbows at each other i mean its like i feel its hard because again i dont have kids but i see where you know theyre already exposed to it in a video game element and you want them to be prepared but again like i just go back to that argument of and you know its traumatizing but again you see where these kids are like i thought it was firecrackers i thought it was this and theyre not as you know they might not be as prepared as they think i mean even the kids of parklane they were like we thought it was somebody shooting off stuff we didnt realize what it was being an adult and a Police Officer though theres no training thats going on here for you and the heroes that we do find out in these School Shootings its a natural reaction theres something inside them that you could not prepare for that they do something that allows them to be in the position they are seeing as the people who are trying to handle it dont handle it very well in the situation room or where people were supposed to train our calander are going to you know i dont know in my thing is no offense against teachers but i had a lot of teachers over the years. Any kind of. To say im out of adults across the board were dozens of the industry that im like. So and we dont have any. I want to get on to this story because then this sort of relates to it because theres this connection that everybody puts in like these movies or video games cause kids to be violent however so now we have the joker movie coming out one of the things that i think is interesting is that we never hear complaints or warnings or concerns when its a movie that has lots of violence and all the same same aspects when its like the hurt locker 13 hours stalin grad or Something Like blackhawk down these are very violent very realistic very traumatising if you dont know whats going on they can be moved is those are all really violent they glorify violence in a way whether its for patriotism or because youre angry like the joe. Things didnt work out in life the way you thought they would welcome the club. I mean i love the joker but really its late already it is your 1st day being president. So theres a thing about your why do you think there is that difference between why why are we concerned with telling kids like this is war and this is what happens and that why do you think there isnt a concern why dont the editors put out dont let your kids see how about why are we putting this out in the 1st place if we really are concerned that this is what is inspiring these shootings we were talking about taking away 2nd limit Constitutional Rights why dont we take away and not set the example in the 1st place i know that once you let the cat of the bag its really hard to get it back and in this case if its causing this much the f. B. I. Just issued warnings themselves theyre looking into it then why are we putting it out the 1st place what good is that for our society im sorry good netflix theres a lot of other things you can entertain yourself with when i look at it as im a huge batman and ive always known batman i remember back and its great when we were studying world war 2 we actually had to get permission slips to see the 1st 8 minutes of saving private ryan which you havent seen it its the whole opening of omaha beach that i could understand at that age but you know its one of these things where its a movie its a fake character its like the pre as to why he becomes violent its a movie and if someone i think is going to take this and say that this is going to incite violence. Its a movie its a comic book i mean i just look at it as is while yes it comes from where hes like you know the stand up comedian thats going through this madness if somebody is going to take this and use it to become violent or to go shoot up a school i dont know but i just look at it as its a bouvier i mean theres a lot of a more violent movies out there and keep putting out the warnings like this i just think its just its adding fuel to the fire little ask you something really specific weve got about a minute left we do you think that this is part of this is where were really focusing on this fictional movie or this fictional moment or this movie is is causing these problems do we not have any responsibility but our general rhetoric in society right now i mean were were a very angry culture all over the world absolutely and it does seem like theyre nitpicking in a way and i will say i actually had to childhood friends that were in the theater next to the theater where the Aurora Shooting happened as of a have gone through years of p. T. S. D. And anxiety and very real impacts that happen as a result of god so in a way to all of the people who did survive the shooting this is kind of a slap in the face to them to now say oh wait a 2nd watch out for this next one comes right along and so it does raise a much bigger conversation about how we conduct ourselves and how we look at violence and every day society and in our movies dont turn around and criticize us when these things happen so that we should act this way when youre putting this out there well there it is a lot to talk about another great week in the gallery thank you so much scotty now he is fair and runs and Rachel Blevins and thats our show for you today everyone as my cohost tells us remember everyone in this world not the left in the tell you i love you im tavis wallis keep on watching along and have a great day and night everybody. Gandhian by north beach so many people because they copied him you sure that even such a bad puppy sending. 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