A long time and its too late to fix it will be here with his take im Steve Malzberg lets see the press. Oh yeah. Good bye. You know folks it doesnt take a genius to understand were living through Turbulent Times during last weeks heat the press we talked extensively about the horrible death suffered by george floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police department that death soon led to the protests and riots that weve seen taking place daily across the country and if you think the media has been able to cover whats going on without their usual liberal biased guess again watch them watch them lie to you one after the other as you watch what youre watching and you see what youre seeing and theyre telling you no youre not seeing that. I want to be clear in how i just mostly have a problem just. Not as it is and im generally speaking honestly fires started and the 1st thing i want to be perfectly well this has been a little bit of harley as well about because its been a mostly peaceful protests but then they truths to move in many of these protests have been largely peaceful mostly peaceful mostly peaceful mostly peaceful so many good people out there who want change and who are demanding change. And leave it to the did miss falbe on television to spin things this way our country was started because this is how the Boston Tea Party rioting. So dont do not get it twisted and think that oh this is something that has not never happened before and then this is so terrible and where are we in these savages and all of that this is how this country will start making excuses making excuses for people who who beat up female Business Owners and riot in luton beat up cops wow thats don lemon and of course the president has come under fire during all this from the media imagine the president and his attorney general have vowed to restore law and order and of course thats racist he used the phrase law and order it was a very specific choice of words there and that of course harkens back to Richard Nixon himself when he worked for although i think the use of that phrase predates your time there but why do you think barr is using that why do you think that is something the administration is leaning so heavily into. Its a code phrase it is it you know its more than a dog whistle and you know its very different message. To the base. That im going to be talking and thats the point this next 10 years its not its not nuts for wanting to restore law and order maybe if the. Media would report on this the viewer might find this nuts at least 13 members of joe bidens Campaign Staff have donated to a fund that bails out those who riot thats right get them out of prison go ahead media report on this and lets take a vote of some sort lets see if the media favors bailing out those who riot or restoring law and order i think i know what would win well have more on all of this coming up in the desert segment. Free speech and big tech goes together like what oil and water and many would say that since the coronavirus has gotten a lot worse last week the president signed an executive order to try to rein in his perceived bias on the social media platforms well natasha sweet has been taking it all in and she has the latest steve these social media platforms receive a pass if you will through section 230 of the Communications Decency act but after the president was fact checked by twitter and facebook is acting as a news source instead of just a platform the president is now taking action and now conservatives are hoping their voice will no longer be silenced some would say theres a war and free speech when it comes to liberal platforms policing conservative ideals after twitter decided to fact check to a President Trumps tweets saying they were partly false information he said enough is enough today im signing an executive order to protect up all the free speech rights of the American PeoplePresident Trump saying when social media platforms like twitter decide to suppress edit blacklist or shadow ban users content that these are mere editorial decisions and these moves reveal that twitter is indeed not a neutral public platform he says they should no longer benefit from section 230. 00 of the Communications Decency act that legislation currently protects internet platforms from liability who publish information provided by others it states no providers shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information but the president s executive. Order would no longer allow social media platforms to have immunity since they are not acting as a mere platform for all what they choose to fact check and what they choose to ignore or even promote is nothing more than a political Activism Group or political activism and to take appropriate facebooks new Oversight Board just so happens to be packed full of liberals none of which support the president and at least 3 members have ties to leftist billionaire george soros so some are wondering if this Oversight Board will have any impact on whats being censored as we approach the upcoming 2020 election but according to an interview facebook c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg did with c. And b. C. He changes his tune and says an internet platform should not limit what politicians have to say i think weve been pretty clear on what i think the right approach is which is that i dont think facebook or internet forms in general should be arbiters of truth i think thats kind of a dangerous line to get down to in terms of deciding what is what is true and what isnt. And i think political speech is one of the most sensitive parts in a democracy well since 2016 these social Media Companies havent just been serving as platforms theyve been publishers you tube has recently been censoring content that disagrees with the World Health Organization facebook is working on their own news content and twitter is now claiming to fact check some are just wondering where is the media and all of this to help protect free speech reporting for in the press to talk to sweeps r t. Joining us now to talk about all of this is the founder of Less Government seton motley and add a list for a Young Americans for liberty and the op there by the way of the liberal invasion of red state america there it is on your screen christan be tape guys its so great to see you know a both lets get to. Right right to it seems lets start with you you recently penned a piece this piece as a matter of fact on tech and censorship then last week of course the president he issued an executive order designed to remedy what you wrote about in effect will it work do you think. I have not what im hopeful for is that they actually finally start enforcing section 230 they havent been doing that the platform versus publisher debate has been raging for recently much louder but ive been writing about it for years now its its section 238 of the 1980s Communications Decency act required requires these platforms to be open which means they get protection from liability for libel and slander and intellectual property theft and exchange for not pretending to be publishers not editing contact and theyve been editing content as you know steve for years and years almost exclusively conservative content or right wing content or christian goddamn and now theyre finally being called on it and being told im hoping in this executive order you have to comport to section 230 or you lose your Liability Protections other sentient being. Yeah you know its very interesting and of course that the president also pushing for legislation and good luck with that because i think both sides want Different Things christen from your Vantage Point your perspective with Young Americans for liberty when when your members when people of your generation see this censorship at such an alarming rate as it keeps apparently growing and growing what are you and what do they think the future holds well it is very alarming especially since the majority of young people get their news on social media oh no east social media platforms are overwhelmingly liberal its the worst kept secret in Silicon Valley these sacks trackers that the sites you are all laughter when with a few rare exceptions that you know facebook or twitter these are private companies not angels they should be allowed to operate as they please but as weve all been saying they cannot be treated as a as a platform a its got to be treated as a publisher welcome compete with c. N. N. And fox news because frankly these sites are not operating as nonbiased public sphere is for discourse i will say this though steve i get very worried when we talk about the federal government interfering with social media and online it is a very slippery slope you know we have donald trump in office right now and we like what hes talking about but it just takes one liberal and there was a bit warmer joe biden and that can be really bad if we give them power to add to control these companies so i like the idea of treating twitter has other companies as publishers not platforms but weve got to draw about why were government can step in because that can get really bad really. Our folks i hope we went your appetite on this we have a lot more to talk about with both both seton and christian so stay right where you are theres much more ahead on eat the press. Join me every thursday on the alec simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see that. You cannot be both with yeah you like. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. I mean that Dollar Dollar is what i was leaving. We got garrett over here we care the music with us. Were here with a drag here. By you know going to get rid of those who are not go away who will not die quietly. Real the hard to do what we do is the truth. And welcome back to the press im Steve Malzberg im rejoined by our great panel. Doing a conversation with kristen tate and steven motley now guys in what looked to be kind of a preemptive strike for of facebook a c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg he tried separating himself from twitter by saying this just prior to the president s executive order last week watch i dont think. He spoke or internet forums in general should be arbiters of truth i think thats kind of a dangerous line to get down to in terms of deciding what is or what is true and what isnt and i think political speech is one of the most sensitive parts and in a democracy and people should go to see what politicians say i dont know see who is this guy i mean did he just appoint a Supreme Court to censor everything and now hes saying at this political speech shouldnt be censored and again this is right hes for the executive order so do you believe him. To seized on this before one memory in a new member of facebook at a news feed for a while several years ago and they got rid of it they decided it wasnt working for them and then all the x. Employees came out and said oh by the way we show conservative stories way down at the bottom of the news hes and theyre trying to make up make good with conservatives he invited a bunch of conservative leaders out to value Grover Norquist where a bunch of bunch of people went. Mad slapped it was credit ahead of the American Survey you did not go because he he got the joke but no. Coverage is very good at saying the right while doing the wrong things and chris said do you believe us uk a burg. Adding we should be very skeptical of course hes right that free speech is a killer of any free society but i mean for years his own web site censored conservatives so i take everything he says with a grain of salt but i think the best way we can ensure free speech on all these platforms if you encourage competition but government has got to make it as easy as possible for new players to get into the market and compete with the big guys you know if you look at pew research the vast majority of twitter users in particular are liberal half the country is conservatives so there is a huge market of people out there who watch. That isnt censoring their views and seems like a great opportunity for another company to offer Something Different for half the country who doesnt want just to be bombarded constantly with liberal opinions and get censored. Well of course we saw what twitter did right after the executive order they had another trump tweet this one about the riots and what might happen as a result of those riots so they dont look like theyre making nice but guys. To both of you the media seems to have this interest of vested interest but some might say in keeping the economy shut keeping us Wearing Masks over everything and keep this a pandemic story how much saying its not a story and it being at the forefront. Kristen why whats their motivation you believe. Me at this point is an arm of the Democratic Party each day are rooting for america to stay else sadly seems like there is nothing they with more than to see the entire economy crashed you dont care who gets her in the process so that they can turn around and blame it on tom planned for the last and means to me it was to get somebody of all this where russia investigation that went nowhere plan b. Was to get him out of the ukraine investigations and mail them decent thout know where their plans are you know is. Not going to work either. Seeking about 1030 seconds. Is shes exactly right this is their leader this is grasping at straws but unfortunately because they control all the major. Straw manufacturers the media hollywood the Silicon Valley they can make the flimsiest of stories look very very serious for a very long to arm and we got that with russia certainly for years and now thats completely unraveled because the ukrainian call was weak and they got nowhere shes exactly right and they just because theyre so powerful they can make nothing look like something for a long yeah you have hate to see and kristan thank you both so much it was a pleasure of will do this again thank you so here we. Are. Hi folks one of the things we do here every week on the press is point out you know the left leaning nature of the Mainstream Media and now a former president of c. B. S. News is weighing in and he says its probably too late to fix that problem and we may just have to accept it and learn to live with it and joining us now to toss that around and much much more is media and legal analysts like no of line no media i like i dont lets get right to it my friend ben Gordon Souter who headed c. B. S. News back in the eightys. Writes this piece in the wall street journal and it says spin part 35 years ago im sitting next to a Jeane Kirkpatrick a one time democratic became a Foreign Policy advisor to president reagan and she was lamenting what she called the liberal leaning media and as the president of c. B. S. News he said i assured it was just a liberal tilt and it could be corrected she said no no no its too late and now he says kirkpatrick was prophetic news organizations that claim to be neutral have long been creeping leftward and theyre loading of mr trump has accelerated the pace im shocked but hes right on i would say what do you think. I dont want to be heretical steve but van gordon who now this is one of those things this is where people love to play the parlor game of you know there was a time in this country when we won is liberal steve its gone in journalism the way he thinks is dead people are looking today for news unfortunately i dont think so you dont think so but this is one of the this is like arguing the travelling rule in the n. B. A. Or foot faults in tennis yes youre right about this but he does bring up one thing which should get their attention this will affect the bottom line and thats what got their attention when he talks and to managing editors rather than bring about some journalistic rule he says this will ultimately hurt you in the pocketbook book in the long run and thats why its critical but but steve we all know this how many articles like this have you read and it was well done but but but apparently i think were kind of tone deaf to this its its like when people talk about dietary information they know that its but they enjoy just flashing that weve become so addicted to it so last week the President Trump issued his executive order in an attempt to hold social media platforms accountable and end the bias against conservatives as in which exists in his mind and in the minds of many 1st will it work and legally with this section 230 will it stand up. Ok executive order to stay believe it or not nobody knows what an executive order is dont tell anybody i dont want to but were not really sure its a double super secret probation its nice executive orders theyre good but its a start but it was a shot of cost about number 2 what has to be done is his f. T. C. And department of justice if they were to institute get this anti trust prosecutions sherman and otherwise that would get their attention what hes doing steve is and they hope he needs to to changes and ask this question steve are lees platforms in essence utilities can you majesty if you picked up your phone said something and all of a sudden your call was dropped because 80 and here sprint didnt like the subject matter you would say no thats ridiculous because the phone is in essence a utility its like its the dial tone we have to redefine what social media are today these arent little cute Bulletin Boards or billboards gentrified of an industry that have come up with this is critical once that is established it changes everything far far from it youre absolutely correct our excel 2 weeks ago you and i talked about a lawsuit against fox news yesterday that somehow far it wasnt entitled to follow 1st amendment protections because they werent over the air t. V. They were Cable Television and you had to subscribe to it cetera et cetera well that lawsuit is over and fox whens and it reminds us steve this people should refer to this it was a state court case which is nonetheless just as valid but steve this is another on really lending attack against the 1st amendment to try to come up with new ways and i applaud it i mean its most novel but the judge cites back the case where the Supreme Court ruled in. That stolen valor statute were were unconstitutional because you can even lie i said that to to regulate what a law is is so difficult even so big a simple haves as were you in the military or not steve this is a warning theyre not don and this is law fair not warfare youre going after conservative and non rule left ideology through the courts thats what this is about but luckily common sense prevailed here at least what what a way to end the segment common sense prevailed when will it be able to say that against our National Thank you very very much my friend appreciate it as always. Several weeks ago i introduced you to c. N. N. S Chris Cuomo who let his audience to believe that he emerged from his coronavirus quarantine this way all right heres your fish british police. Career c. D. C. Who will swear this worked out and. This is where you know literally for weeks of course it turned out that he was out and about with his family days before that so that was nothing but fake news now i wish that was the worst of what i could show you about chris cuomo but its not not by a long shot it seems that hes been encouraging or at least excusing violence as long as the violence is being perpetuated by people who have the socalled moral high ground and this goes back a ways watch 2 wrongs and what is right the bigots are wrong to hit anti for whomever anarchist or malcontent or misguided they are also wrong to hit but fighting hate is right doesnt cuomo get it all sides believe they have the moral high ground that they are right now that was 2 years ago but unfortunately during these terrible times were living through right now cuomo is still at it encouraging in my humble opinion encouraging violence as long as youre in the right watch doesnt make it ok. To riots says the majority but doesnt it depend why its happening a riot in Boston Harbor started the fight that amounted to america cities burned across the continent in 1968 again of stonewall and each of those cases it was the minority manifesting a desperate plea to be heard and for change just like now of course we really shouldnt be too surprised you see chris cuomo is a tough guy thats c. N. N. Anchor man chris cuomo lashing out at a trump supporter who insulted him oh no you dont he says theres a point when you see i think chris cuomo envies the writers would love to be one so what do americans want to do they agree with chris cuomo now the leftists on the air who are giving their point of view or do they want law and order to take back their streets well according to a morning konsole survey conducted may 31st through june 1st the media loses big time just 18 percent of voters oppose calling in the National Guard to supplement city Police Forces while 72 percent support the measure that included 42 percent who strongly supported doing so another 58 percent supported calling in the u. S. Military to assist while just 30 percent opposed it chris cuomo you are in the minority you rationalize and you excuse violence as long as you like the cause the people want their streets back and they want that back now. 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In America Today the winds of change are tends to with the smell of tear gas since that fateful monday evening in the latter days of may when george boyds encounter with 4 Minneapolis Police officers resulted in his violent tragic death the United States has entered a true period of reckoning a reckoning with a racist past a reckoning with our oppressive present and a reckoning with what our future will be its in this reckoning when the true colors of a citizen a leader an activist and an officer of the law all of us are truly revealed and in that moment we must begin asking the important questions that our Society Needs answered in the last 2 weeks weve been witness to tear gas pepper spray but tons shields rubber bullets chemical balls this boots yes even knees again unleashed on us citizen citizens and whats become an all too common sight on the evening new why in the last few days weve seen police in buffalo by only push a 75 year old man down to the ground with such sports that you could hear the crack of the mans skull d on the concrete before he lay motionless bleeding from the air while they all walk by why in denver we saw the police after they fire a chemical weapon at a car carrying a pregnant woman when confronted by her boyfriend the police opened fire with a hail of pepper ball shots on him and his pregnant girlfriend and the car why weve seen journalists