Kind of news theyd be getting however now just a few months into this pandemic according to pew research here in the United States numbers of majority feel that the us news media has handled coverage of this pandemic rather well in fact 69 percent to be exact in fact the percentage of those who say the media was exaggerating the threat of the virus has dropped from 62 percent in march to 48 percent in april that includes a decline in the portion saying the media have greatly exaggerated the risks as well from 37 percent to 24 percent but these numbers do not mean the u. S. News media has been beyond reproach in their tactics nor have they seen the upswing in profits either as the Washington Post reports people are consuming news like never before but spikes in readership are coming alongside huge drops in the advertising revenue. A New York Times count estimated 36000 media workers have experienced furloughs pay cuts or even layoffs from vice to buzz feed to corks to condi nast there have been massive layoffs in the business of news both in print and on line since the start of this pandemic and that has only been in the 1st few months my friends and of course just because we are in a state of emergency that hasnt stopped the by part of the partisanship battles between liberal and conservative news outlets from blaming trump and blaming cuomo blaming obama blaming dr blaming china blaming just about everybody else on and on and on and on how many talking heads and news editorial have we now seen and read that laid the blame on the leadership of one side while excusing away the failures their own side played in the deaths of now over 90000 u. S. Citizens so today lets examine the good the bad and even the censorship that weve seen from the u. S. News media during the covert 1000 pandemic as we start watching a home. In a city. You want to. See as this. State. Great city displays systemic deception is so much. So when you go. Well when watching the hawks i am tyrone and im mr kroft and joining us today to discuss the state of the news media in the age of covert 19 or 2 books or no stranger to news media criticism both in the giving and receiving the host of r. T. Americas eat the press Steve Malzberg an investigative journalist cohost of arties boom bust mr reality check himself was on thank you both for coming on today guys. Thanks for having me so i want to start lets start with just looking at the coverage across the board of this poll. So far steve what do you feel has been the best and worst aspects of the u. S. News medias handling of this outbreak steve you can go 1st. Wow the best and worst aspect i think you know you hit it on the head when you talked about that the partisanship the blame game the fake news by omission which which ill throw in has been its been unavoidable and its been consistent so i think while the coverage i think it depends who youre watching and i think that that poll would you probably get to in a little bit will show that theres a party line disagreement on how much they trust the media and how good a job they think theyre doing i mean youve got. A sin maybe murder that was committed in new york state by Governor Cuomo has orders to take sick patients and put them in Nursing Homes and the Mainstream Media really couldnt care about that now the more conservative media is harping on that where is the Mainstream Medias going after trouble for every you know everything he does and everything he says so you hit it right on the head in your introduction so i dont think you could say notwithstanding what the people think in my opinion i dont think theyve done a good job covering just the facts i think Everything Everything is slanted. Burn your thoughts yeah i think i think its true that everything is slanted loves them from the left or the right doesnt matter that covering stories from a partisan viewpoint is not journalism theres plenty of space out there for there to be actual journalists who are just focusing on the facts of whats happening where this thing came from what you know whats happening under the law whether or not civil rights are being violated whether or not you know these these governors orders are even constitutional there are so many questions out there and the problem is is that number one media is not really asking those questions theyre played this constant game yes they want to jump on everything trump doesnt trump gives the lots of things to jump on every day they want to you know criticize anything they dont like at the same time. Theyre not being sincere i dont think in terms of just looking at whats happening in terms of the virus itself its bread there are there are massive things guys that are that are taking place right now the talk of Contact Tracing apps that would be tracking everyone in the country the idea that states would put in these in a place the fact that were looking at the new health care version of the patriot act and hardly anyone is talking about these issues that will affect all of our lives not just today and tomorrow but for the next generation. Can i throw in real quick and i should but the Washington Post today to what ben is just said is touting how great hong kong and and south korea have been how their models you know what they do if theyre infected people they take him out to government facilities to quarantine mass quarantine this has been talked about by w. H. O. Talk of course was really the only one playing the w. H. O. Official who said that we may have to go into peoples homes and take them away now today the Washington Post is laying the groundwork i dont be very careful and right on target. And feed this ones for you as well in terms of partnership partisanship and News Coverage pew also notes that while 2 thirds of democrats 66 percent say the media. Coverage has been largely accurate just about 3 in 10 republicans 31 percent actually agree steve that this poll reflects what youre hearing from conservatives about the news and the Media Coverage on the ground and given how divided the political and pundit class is in this country is that even possible in todays day and age not to be considered bias regardless of how you present a story. No its always going to be you know thats a good point theres always going to be somebody on the other side with a different opinion because everything is presented in a political spectrum its so hard to escape it again if you watch the clip people news stations and channels theres no way to get away from it if you read the newspapers the Washington Post the New York Times theres no way to escape it if you watch fox told. Extent but still in all theres no way to escape it this land is out there and you know its its its inescapable and its going to people are going to watch it and say wait a minute you know enough already with this lets talk about that x. X. X. When you have a site when you have a who one day says we can never shake hands again but the media ignores that he said if you want to have casual sex and hook up on line if the 2 partners are willing thats up to them well shouldnt that discredit found she should that be made a big big issue you never hear about it so my point is everything is presented in a prism and nobody is presenting 100 percent straight news anymore i think its very true and ive begun to say was there sort of a prison prism that you speak of either give its true for both sides whether its conservative media they have their prism and liberal media has their prism as well but i want to ask you one of the interesting aspects of this coverage surrounding this president is what many are viewing as you know very social media subs are shipped by Companies Like you tube and facebook of any videos interviews or alternative news reports the contradictory raise questions about the official medical or government response to this virus your own coverage of the as you mentioned earlier with of the Contact Tracing bill thats coming down the pipeline and the funding of the war on lebanon china and possible american dollars that have been going into the place before all this happened but is this a dangerous we are walking when it comes to press freedoms or is any possible misinformation in a Public Health crisis a potential danger to the public and needs to be policed them some fashion how do you feel so obviously i have a pretty clear point of view on this because as you mentioned ive had 2 stories that have been censored by facebook heres the problem with that is that both of these stories one is about the lab receiving u. S. Funding that is an absolute fact it has been proven time and time again ive put up lots of proof for it the other one is about this bill thats on its way down the problem. Is that the socalled Fact Checkers who have fact checked these stories in one case it was political act and the reporter writes in the story he didnt bother to fact check the story he literally says the 15 minutes report that swan presented of which we did not fact check the why are you doing a fact check if youre not going to actually watch the report in fact check it the other one is on the level that was done by a usa today story that never even looked at our report they simply looked at a Facebook Post someone else put up saying Obama Administration gave 3700000. 00 to the war on lab and then declared that any Story Associated with this was false and heres the problem with this guys it is critically important Fact Checking organizations like snopes and political fact and usa today are being given the authority on facebook to fact check information when your story is in my case is labeled as being false news or partly false Facebook Says number one you have no recourse to appeal that and to say to someone heres proof as to why its not wrong the 2nd thing is and this is also critically important not only do you not have that but Facebook Says we can take action against your page and if you go back and correct the information it does not change the fact that we will still take action against your page now as a journalist you guys know for instance a few months ago the w. H. O. Said dont wear face masks a few weeks later they said do wear face masks a journalist reporting what the w. H. O. Said before and then again later as with all journalistic stories you find that new information comes along you have to have the ability to present information as you find it and then to continue to build on that the idea that a journalist can not get anything wrong when in fact you know Washington PostNew York Times fox news c. N. N. Everybody gets stuff wrong and then they run retractions if its wrong but in this case it is a very clear effort to say if you put up something we dont like well we will declare it fake news and then well remove you from the platform and by. By the way one of the point on that the reporters who were doing the stuff i also did a report about one of the socalled Fact Checkers for facebook was actually an employee at the wu han lab who was receiving money there so how is that person then going back and checking journalists and deciding whether journalists are accurate of what theyre reporting theres a huge conflict of interest there most definitely and according to the New York Times the chief economist and indeed dot com 3rd new listings for jobs in media and communications have fallen 35 percent in the 60 days before april the 3rd with the math of layoffs and these major losses and job openings what do you think the future of news media will look like after comit 19. Well if its addressed to me i think its going to its going to look a lot different a lot of these newspapers and print media that are feeling the hardest effects right now of layoffs and closing and firing etc pay cuts they were going down anyway they were a dying industry anyway and anybody who says we need to prop them up because of the virus thats just thats false and thats so thats going money down had a dark hole so they were they were going out anyway because of the the new way of the news media however as you point out its beyond the newspapers its the digital its its you know the people you would never think would be affected its its the buzz feeds in and its kind of the nested suits its everybody and that a lot of that has to do with that one ties thing but some of it doesnt have to do with that protesting or lack thereof because of the virus a lot of publications a lot of folks platforms are saying ok maybe we could take advantage of this in do more with less and do it under the guise of the coronavirus and use that as an excuse im not saying that everybody is doing that i think thats the main i think Going Forward youre going to see in much different media a much tighter media and a much much more to war with much much less in general thats. Kind of dangerous is it not better when you see these newsrooms shrink and shrink and shrink. It is dangerous and its dangerous to see them shrinking by the way one of the biggest reasons why Online Publications and websites and newspapers that are online are dying is because i know i say it all the Time Facebook and google because facebook and google between the 2 of them control about 95 percent of the ad market on the internet thats an insane thought to think that 2 companies completely dominate the entire ad market but they do and so if you dont use google to sell your ads for you and youre not getting revenue through facebook at their control in that space then you cant survive out there as an individual you know web site that says ill just go out and sell advertising it doesnt work that way anymore and thats one of the the biggest problems right now about it most definitely doesnt ban steve i want to thank you both coming for having this great discussion with us pleasure as always having to both on. Thank you guys. Are going to break remember that you could also start watching our show on demand for the brand new portable t. V. Which is available on smartphones from google play on the web store were searching portable t. V. Or you can stream us to your t. V. By downloading the portable t. V. Up on apple t. V. And online and portable t v coming up we examined the valuing of black communities across the United States the darker gray area offers a fascinating book you know your price valuing black lives and property American Life through watching. We go to work so you straight home. Every single culture on earth has prohibitions against you. At the same time virtually every culture of the earth world were born to you enormously if you use killed the right person in one setting it is the most horrendous damaging single match in the world and in the other setting is you know wondrous thing that they will give you a medal for that people will vote through you because of that the people will mate with you because youre good at doing that sort of say. No team no crowd. No shots. Actually felt. Well stress over this 12. Point show your thirst for action. The. Black americans seem to always get the short end of the stick from Ballot Access issues and Voting Rights the rights to health care and housing americas model seems to be white is right black get back the devaluation of black innovation and contributions to American Progress all well documented but one thing we dont talk about enough is the confessed to the valuation of black property would of course in white supremacy. You know your price valuing black lives and property in america is black 50 delve deeper into the store called bias and present day implications of the valuing blackening joining us now its author spell out here. Thank you for coming on with us today i want to say your book explores the multifaceted and generational issues associated with black property and black communities being alternately shut out of the Economic Growth and value we see in their white counterparts what are some reasons for this and how is this devaluation reflected today. Yeah 1st of all thank you for having me on the devaluation the valuations that are the complicated but yet easily understandable issues particularly when it comes to housing one of the studies in the in the book was i looked at housing prices in black majority cities where their share the black population and the greater that that the percent high compared to harlem cards is in neighborhoods where the the prices the homes or or their black population was less than one percent and i control for education crime walkability all those things the zillow metrics so i can get an apples to apples comparison of home prices what i found. That growth in black neighborhoods are devalued by 23 percent 48 out of her home a cumulatively that amounts to about 156000000000 in lost equity now we know that people use the equity to lift themselves up that that money should go toward folks to start a business or to send their kids to college it could have funded actually more than a 1000000. 00 College Degrees based on the average price of a college to a Public College which then it could have funded more than 4000000. 00 start up businesses but that money is a sense the extracted by the perception of the neighborhood that reduces the bout you. Now certainly that occurred in appraisals that occurred in lending practices in the occurred in Real Estate Agent behavior and the overall economy as well but its clear that if you can from our research that if you take a home in a black neighborhood and place it in a white one it increases in value by nearly 50000. 00 and thats centrally a metaphor for how we live. Today and im in america. And theres an interesting chapter that you reach recently mentioned in the web in our hosted by the Brookings Institute titled having babies like white people the title i thought was pretty riveting because we know that if that mortality in postpartum death is high if the mom black women what is the link between that and community valuation and why was that chapter important. Yet there is a long standing there to the conditions of black studies the. Direct result of the individual behavior of the people and. Who and how that pertains to birth and birth and a lot of people look at the disparities in birth birthing outcome and they say hey look what are you to look at your diet you have diabetes and all these other issues but they miss the fact that its really the structures of employment. Criminal justice of education all these Different Things into ones one that influence your health but they have a Large Bearing on the amount of stress and overall outcome from people who are not so when we start saying hey sore point the finger at mothers and saying hey you have to stop eating this and stop drinking that were missing the influence of the environment why thats important to me my wife who is a physician struggled we struggled to have a child and i have still in that trap as well criticize. I think what she was eating criticizing her exercise habits but so we all fall in that trap and but eventually we did have a child and it took a lot of resources luckily we had the financial means and so and and we really had a gestational carrier with our to have our child but that shouldnt have happened when we should eliminate the Structural Racism and you shouldnt have to have to be wealthy to in order to have these treatments and so the title of that chapter having babies like white people is actually a response from a relative when they found out how we were having a child that while youve really made it youre having babies like white the but when but the reality is that we should not have struck so race to them that suppresses early how come we should not blame others for those for those ill come and more importantly we should have programs and initiatives like they do in you do you take for instance that a lot of. Coverage for fertility treatments. You know there are many many reoccurring themes throughout your book its a fantastic book regardless of the black you know city mention the recipe for ignoring it or participating in a sting my eyes seems to be the same how can we move beyond devaluation and get back on track to try to get move society past those of us track that its. What it really does take investments in people that interesting thing about how that is that if he invested in her and if we have invested in business is done with bets in these good assets that youll see a return but we dont invest in them and so you dont get the return the point of showing devaluation is to hate these are strong assets theyre not broken theyre just. So we have to go back to and investing in these things that interesting study that my colleague Jonathan Ross well the gallup and David Harshbarger at brookings did we look at a business is in black communities and what we saw our own im sara lee we will we scraped up data to get a sense of quality of businesses all across the country what we found that businesses in black neighborhoods owned by people color actually score higher on yelp than their white counterparts but they get less revenue thats because folks are not going towards black. Neighborhoods but what we are seeing in this code moment people are calling these businesses theyre calling the black owned restaurant the jamaican spot the ethiopian spot the soul food spot and having it delivered and so that they know they recognize the quality but and under north normal circumstances theyre not going to be its not now there are elders used to say that our ice is just as coal because they knew if you dont go to quality you distort the market in a way that suppresses the economic mobility of the People Living in in the neighborhood and so our ice is justice we just that black Business Owners back home owners rennert they dont need some kind of program to build them. They just need investment now weve been down this road before to remember going to approach and how we got all the depression we invested in or we just excluded black people from the new deal for major parts of. The same thing is true today if we want to get out of this one in this pandemic that the recession and deal and deal with the underlying causes that hurt black folk we have to invest in the people as well as the communities in which they are most definitely i couldnt agree with you more. But your book does a really good job of showing that thank you so much again for coming on once again know your price valuing black lives and property americas black cities great perry thank you so much for coming on sir. And a thanks for having. You know already that is our show for you today remember in this world we are not told we are loved and up so i tell you all i love you i wrote one for an anime chicago keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody you. Dont. Know. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or a maybe in the shallows. Cold war 2. 00 targeting china is off the ground gaining momentum some see china must pay because endemic well others flee the she is an existential Security Threat to the washington world still others see washington and can see he lives in a new. Part of something is better than 100 percent of nothing and so losing money is part of the Money Laundering model as a model of Business Model and we look at these unicorns these startups and Silicon Valley like the ones you mentioned we work. That way fair guber. We were left there all losing money exponentially so many after the asters stuff well maybe the model is to lose money and so who is laundering the money who is laundering the money. However. The way to go for food. Ballot itself nor to see it on. 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