Nearly 30 others were taken to a hospital. Among those treated were four ambulance workers and three police officers. Investigators are looking at the restaurants heating equipment. And one of the worlds most notorious drug lords is behind bars after a nearly 13year manhunt. Joaquin El Chapo Guzman was captured. He is the alleged head of the sinaloa cartel, a group that has been blamed for the kidnapping and murders of rival drug gangs and police officers. The taliban is breaking off talks for a Prisoner Exchange with the u. S. American officials are negotiating for the release of this man, u. S. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl, but a spokesman for the militants say a, quote, complex political situation is the reason for them freezing the talks. The taliban wants five prisoners at Guantanamo Bay released. Coming up in the newsroom at 2 00 eastern time, well have the final medal count from the winter Olympic Games in sochi. Can team usa overtake the russians on the last day of competition . Im Fredricka Whitfield. Reliable sources starts right now. Good morning. From new york city. Im brian stelter. Its time for reliable sources. We have a terrific program ahead for you today, a whole lot of stories. Heres whats coming up. Why cant journalists call out hate and prejudice when its staring them in the face . Communist nurtured subhuman mongrel. When the news turns ugly, reporters need to grow a backbone. Then, stories that dont have two sides. Scientists all over the world agree Climate Change is real and its here. But on television, you never know it. And donald trump. He pretends to run for office and reporters keep covering him. But when one person calls out his bluff the donald goes ballistic. Dont we ever learn . Oh, yeah. Sometimes we do. Lets talk about not talking about that guy. Donald trump. The press rarely passes up a chance to cover the donald, on fox and friends every monday, a standing invitation there. In my opinion this Network Sometimes takes him too seriously. Constant presence on twitter getting into fights which result in more coverage. The real estate mogul and ralty tv star and hawker of president ial birth certificate myths was taken down on buzzfeed by the writer mckay who got to hang out with trump at a political speech in new hampshire, flew on trumps plane and spent the night at trumps passion in palm beach, florida. Trump was expecting a glowing profile but got this, the quote, trumps political career a long con the billionaire has perpetrated on the country for 25 years by repeatedly pretending to consider various runs for Office Finally appears to be on the brink of collapse. The reason, nobody seems to believe him anymore. Trump was livid. He got rid of the aide who talked him into doing the interview, attacked buzzfeed, attacked coppins wife. At the mansion he showed a picture of his wife and baby he said thats a good looking woman. Trump took that back and claimed this on twitter. That coppens was a slob of a reporter who doesnt understand my sarcasm talking about him and his wife who wrote a foolish and boring trump hit . Boring . I think not. It raises an important question, why have reporters taken trumps political flirtations so seriously for so long . Will they just finally say no now . Joining me here are mckay coppens and Maggie Haberman a political reporter for politico. Maggie, since you have written stories about trump over the years, i want to start with you, do you think were at the point he shouldnt be taken seriously as a political figure . I think when he fake ran for president as we would put it in 2011 because he never ran, he never declared, what he did tap into was a real sentiment in the Republican Party base that the other candidates werent tapping into. There was a reason the numbers went high, a reason he was covered. I would argue this gubernatorial flirtation is a mistake, hard to take seriously. The new york governorship. And the person who seems to be helping the most is andrew cue more the current governor, donald trump is having a debate of somebody thinking, rob easterino. I think you will see diminishing returns on this for trump, less and less coverage, but for trump the dissonance is between the new york media and that crewsy bell which he was used to and the National Media he got exp e exposed to in 2011 and i dont think hes adjusted. Do you agree with that, it was worthy of coverage in 2011 . I think so. I mean, the thing that you have to remember is that in 2011, virtually every serious republican candidate made the trek up to trump tower to kiss his ring. Right. They wanted his endorsement. He managed to get, you know, mitt romney to go up on stage with him and accept the endorsement in person. So there he was a real player in 2012. I do think, though, that there was kind of a sharp shark jump moment for the end of that cycle. There were many shark jump moments. By the end really everyone on all sides of the aisle especially in the press were rolling their eyes. And so i think that by Going Forward the gubernatorial thing, 2016, i just dont see it getting the same kind of play it used to . In your piece you acknowledge how meta this is, talking about whether he should be covered. What was your reason for wanting to write a long profile of him . I admit at the top of the story im part of the problem and have been part of the problem. I think that actually what drew me to this, i mean partly i wanted to call out the long con as i call it. More interesting to me was what is it that makes this billionaire whos already famous, rich, so obsessed with getting the Political Class to take him seriously, right . Why is he so interested in this. And you concluded what . My conclusion was that, you know, at the end of the day, hes already done real estate, hes already done reality tv. He has fame. What he wants is credibility. What he wants is for at least some segment of the population to look at him as a serious person. And the problem and kind of great tragedy of him is that he doesnt know how to do that. He is a tremendous manipulator of the media, always has been and i dont say manipulator as pejorative. He knows how to work it. He can teach others how to do it. Correct. This has been one of his really impressive characteristics. I will say to mckays thing, saying hes part of the problem, we now have a big twitter fight where trump is attacking mckay and some of these tweets have gone too far. On for days. Its getting buzzfeed attention, trump attention, people want to read about trump. That doesnt mean theyre going to vote for him. At the end of the day people want to read about him or mckay would not be reading about it or you would not see tweets be a about how irrelevant the guy is. The key distinction he thinks this gets him credibility. Everybody pointing and laughing at limb doesnt necessarily made him a more credible political figure. Entertainers are pointed at to be laughed at. I tried to do that with my piece. I dont think anyone came away reading that thinking we should take him any more seriously than we have been. I think that in the future, people are not going to stop writing about him, right. I think that in the context of a political campaign, yeah, i think the Political Press could do a little better. This is myself included. Making clear that this is not a real political candidate, not a real political figure, this is a side show. Mag ki, you raise a good point about the new york governorship. If he does go further down that road maybe theres a difference between that and these threats to run for president in the past. If he runs for governor he is running for something and that all goes away. It stops becoming this is a fake candidacy which is what everyone is saying on twitter, thats been the heart of this issue. I am skeptical that hes going to run for governor. I think at the end of the day its going to be rob or some lesser known candidate who challenges cuomo. Again, some of this is also to be put candidly on the new york Republican Party which is sort of entertaining this in the first place. Its not really just the medias fault when you members of the state senate and state assembly and county chairs who all as mckays said, trek to trump tower to kiss the ring and do some dance here, we are we obligated to cover that or not cover that . That is the other question here. Hes also still flirting with the idea of president , at least on twitter wrote this the other day, someone wrote to him and say why are you not running for president in 2016 hp he couldnt resist saying, well see what happens. There again, injecting himself into this will he wont he sort of debate. Right. Even when i was with him he tried to convince me this was a real possibility, he was going to do it this time. The moment we can appropriately start taking him seriously as a president ial threat is when he has filed papers and giving speeches to sweaty crowds in iowa. Until that moment we just treat it like a side show. Since your profile came out youve been attacked by him and his yes men as you call them. What kind of names have they called you . What has it been like . It makes you think about whether this guy can ever be a serious candidate if he treats reporters the way hes treated you. Theres been a long line of politicians especially here in new york who have made their bones picking on reporters. So i dont know if that for sure. Excludes him from running. But yeah, i mean its been nasty but as i expected trump fights dirty and really the whole all the blowback and everything hes done, kind of confirms the premise of my story hes a little thin skinned and takes this stuff very, very seriously. Im going to put up i want to put up a tweet from david korn who wrote this the downside to the trump mckay cur fulle is the real donald trump may steer clear of the media his hash tag was oh, no. Will trump dodge the press for a little bit . I dont think trump is going to host anyone on his plane again any time soon. At the end of the day trump and the media have a symbiotic relationship and that will continue. Thank you for bheerg and having a meta conversation about not covering donald trump. Thank you. When i come back ill be t talking about what is arguably the biggest story in the world and some keep getting it wrong. Stick around. Youll want to hear this. Yeah. Try new alka seltzer fruit chews. They work fast on heartburn and taste awesome. These are good. Told ya im feeling better already. [ male announcer ] new alka seltzer fruits chews. Enjoy the relief introducing cardioviva new alka seltzer fruits chews. The first probiotic to help maintain healthy cholesterol levels without a prescription. Cardioviva. Welcome back to reliable sources. Lets begin with an important journalistic statement something i mentioned in the last segment some stories dont have two sides. Some stories are simply true. No necessity to give equal time to the quote unquote other side. One of these Climate Change. Depending on which study or expert you consult between 95 and 97 of scientists agree the Climate Change is happening now, that its damaging the planet and manmade. That seems pretty definitive, right . Why does Television News feel compelled to stage debate between those who represent the 97 and those who represent the fringe . Case in point last weeks meet the press. David gregory interviewed bill ney the science guy, not a scientist, and congresswoman marcia black burn a skeptic with no particular expertise in this subject. Whatever meet the press was trying to accomplish i dont think they did it. Joining me to talk about this and Climate Change more broadly, mickey the named physicist cbs news contributor and author of books the future of the mind out next week and jack, a Senior Editor at the Huffington Post who covers the media world titled meet the press how not to cover Climate Change. Youre the expert here. Tell us how definitive is the evidence, any room for debate . Climate change is the 800 pound gorilla in the living room that media dances around but in the Scientific Community its a settled question. 95 of scientists believe this is happening with 100 confidence temperatures are rising. With 90 confidence we believe is human activity and not Natural Cycles that is driving the increase in temperature on the earth. When you see a Television Segment that features a denier, how do you feel . Do you feel that network or newspaper or website do you feel theyre being irresponsible . Its a free country. However they should present the facts that is that the overwhelming majority of scientists who have studied the question believe the temperatures on the planet are rising and if there are skeptics let them present their Computer Program so we can pick it apart and less us understand because science is touchable, reproduceable and false fible. And you dont see people who are skeptics presenting those programs . I see them giving no numerical results. We present our Computer Programs, theyre testable, they present unfortunately mainly ideology, theyre looking at a scientific question through an ideological litmus test which is not responsible journalism. Before we get into meet the press in particular, jack, what do you make of the amount of coverage of Climate Change in general . Often times i read onsites like yours and others about the complaints about lack of coverage in the press. There is a lack of coverage in the press by and larges especially on television. Media matters just a few weeks ago did a study looking at all of the broadcast News Coverage of Climate Change. They found that on the sunday shows in all of 2013, there was 27 minutes total combined on the big four shows on snbs, cbs, abc and fox. One show meet the press did no coverage at all. Face the nation on cbs had the most. The broadcast evening news shows covered it more probably because they do more coverage of extreme weather events and so when you talk about extreme weather often you find yourself talking about Climate Change. By and large were talking about a huge issue really under covered on our major outlets. And so we would think as we have last week, three of those sunday shows covering the topic think that would be a god thing. Right. You said it wasnt. Why is that . Well, i really focused on meet the press, face the nation and this week did coverage. Face the nations was especially good. What those two shows did that meet the press didnt do was they talked to scientists. They both talked to either climate scientists or meteorologists. Meet the press had a debate which the other two shows really didnt in the same way, about whether Climate Change is happening. Even though the Host David Gregory started out by saying that he didnt want to have a debate, he still brought on someone who denied that Climate Change was happening in the first place. Right. He said he wanted to talk about the policy, get beyond whether its happening or not, but having a skeptic on they seemed to get muzled in the issues that have been debated endlessly. It makes a lot of sense if you dont want to have a debate about the facts, you dont bring on people whose primary focus in the segment is going to be to debate the facts about whether Climate Change exists or not. It was why do you think shows are compelled to do this . Journalism in general is compelled to find the other side to create what people call false balance . I think these shows, they usually cover politics and theyre usually covering, you know, the clash between democrats and republicans. Right. Thats a formula that works pretty well. But once you get out of certain issues, you know, you can talk about well should we raise taxes or should we lower taxes and thats a real ideological battle you can have, but when as you say, youre talking about something that actually doesnt have much debate around it, such as whether Climate Change is real, then i think these shows struggle to be so definitive about something and really break out of the paradigm they set themselves up with a lot. Doctor, what are the risks that are involved in false balance . What happens when people hear two competing sides of something that doesnt really have two competes sides . There are real consequences for agriculture for our cities and the economy. I travel in europe a lot because people come away with confusion about the issue . They dont plan for the future. In europe its a settled question. Global warming Climate Change is a reality and they prepare for it. In amsterdam, how do you prepare for the dikes and levies. In venice, what happens if venice goes under water. If youre in switzerland whats going to happen to the tourist industry. Theyre looking at concrete consequences. In this country we have to worry about agriculture. Summers are getting longer, wiptsers shorter. We have to worry about drought, potential water wars. Potential new hurricanes like sandy. Whether or not we should brace ourselves with new levees and seawalls. As a consequence were not going to be prepared for the future. Youre saying its not taking place at all and jack youre saying when it does take place in the case of meet the press they go about it all wrong. Right. I think there is definitely a debate to be had what to do about Climate Change and thats an important debate. Doctor, do you think theres some room at the table for skeptics . If i was to write a story about this topic in, quote, nine scientists who believe its happening should i be quoting one who is a skeptic or is this so settled theres no room at all for Something Like that . Scientifically speaking its a settled question. The averager. Out there hears the skeptics an the person with the arguments have to be addressed. Theyre out there anyway. In the Scientific Community its pretty much settled. In the court of Public Opinion it is not yet settled. Its good to present the balance but you have to say that with 95 of the Scientific Community behind this theory, it has more weight than another theory. Language matters here so much. Do you think the term Global Warming is one that reporters and anchors should avoid using because it conyours up the idea just of climate of the climate getting warmer as opposed to the idea of extremes . Thats right. Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings because you as you add more energy into the atmosphere it sloshes around. Energy doesnt simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100 year floods here, 100 year forest fires here. Its becoming monotonous. 100 year x every ten years. Do you find journalists in general the ones that interview, do they have enough knowledge and background to explain this to their audiences or are they lacking some of the scientific background they should have . I think theyre lacking the background and they get intimidated. The skeptics are not fools, not stupid people. They read a lot but then they put it in an ideological context and they see everything through this lens and they dont do the homework. They dont do the Computer Programs. They dont krits seek the mathematics. For us theres nothing to debate. We cannot debate them because they have no programs, no data no farm laformulas, nothing but ideology. Thank you for joining me. Thank you. I have to take a quick break. When we come back an important story i think has been gravely undercovered. Even has been shrouded in mystery. One of the mysteries of the afghan war and well share it in a moment. [ female announcer ] most of the time its easy to know which option is better. Other times, not so much. So its good to know that Mazola Corn Oil has 4 times more cholesterol blocking plant sterols than olive oil. And a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. Take care of those you love and cook deliciously. Mazola makes it better. Of the dusty basement at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. And the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. This magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. And of those who believed they had the power to do more. 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Now to a regular segment on this program, undercover where we look at stories that merit more attention than theyre getting in the National Media. Start with a name, Bowe Bergdahl. Ever heard of him before . Im sure some of you have. His name came up in the news this week for the first time in a long time. But Many Americans i venture to say most havent heard of this man. Hes a prisoner of war, americas only prisoner of war. Why dont we hear more about him . Hes 27 years old, from idaho, deployed to afghanistan in may 2009, captured less than two months later. Since then hes been seen in a number of taliban propaganda videos like this one. Every day i want to go home. The pain in my heart to see my family again doesnt get any smaller. Get me release me, please. Im begging you. Bring me home. Bring us all home. Back to our families. Very hard to watch. Theres a lot more to this story than often told. Many ways its a mystery. My next guest jake tapper has been following this case for years an author of book titled the outpost. Thank you for being here. Thanks, brian. It was a segment on your show the lead that got me thinking why we dont hear about Bowe Bergdahl more often. What do you think are the main reasons this p. O. W. Doesnt gain more attention in the National Media . Its a complicated story to begin with. Probably the main reason that stories of americans being held captive either by foreign nations or groups like the taliban, the main reason is because generally speaking the u. S. Government and the families often request that the media not cover it because the more you cover it, the more power you are theoretically giving to those holding the american prisoner or hostage. Thats not always the case. Sometimes families ask the media to cover it because they feel the u. S. Government isnt doing enough, but when negotiations are starting to heat up the media is requested to not cover the story and quite often the media does that because obviously were americans, human beings, we want the persons end to captivity as well. Tell me if im wrong but the muddied circumstances of this mans capture as outlined by Michael Hastings in Rolling Stone a couple years ago seemed like theyre not the traditional kind of story you hear about p. O. W. In any war. He was disillusioned with the war, apparently walked off the base, that led some people to call him a desserter. Do you think those are because the story is muddied is that one of the reasons it doesnt get more attention . Absolutely. The fact is you mentioned Michael Hastings and he got some emails that Bowe Bergdahl sent to his family, emails that suggested that he wasnt just disillusioned with the war, he had become he turned against the war. He didnt think the war was a good idea. He left the base on his own. The American Military does not refer to him as a p. O. W. They refer to him as missing. Thats an interesting detail they couldnt call him a p. O. W. , why the country doesnt realize theres a p. O. W. One of the reasons i would think. And the murky circumstances of why he left the base that night, definitely makes the story different than other p. O. W. Stories where a soldier on a mission is captured by the enemy. Its different. Thats not to say that he shouldnt be freed. The u. S. Government shouldnt be doing everything it can. But in terms of how much his cause has taken root among activi activists, i think thats one of the reasons why you havent seen outside of his family and some troops and veterans, a huge push. I think some of those people who would normally be supporters, normally be calling for the u. S. Government to be doing more, they are relatively quiet. Has it been hard to book members of the family, for example, if youve tried to reach out for them for interviews . Q. Have they stayed quiet through the years . The father pops up here and there. He but generally is tough to book. Hes difficult to book. And i imagine the reason he is tough to book is because of what we mentioned at the top of the segment just the idea that you dont want to do anything to jeopardize what might be going on if you empower his captors in any way, if they feel like oh, look, the American People are really paying allot of attention to this, we can demand not just three prisoners from guantanamo, but ten, that can scotch things and so that obviously complicates things. We should mention that negotiating with terrorists which is what the u. S. Would have to do in order to negotiate for Bowe Bergdahls release, thats something the u. S. Doesnt like to acknowledge that it does. Because the fear is it will empower and encourage other terrorists to take americans hostage. And the last thing the government wants is if it is secretly negotiating is any coverage of that. And we have seen headlines about that in the last few days. Last question before we go, i wonder if one of the other reasons that one of the overarching reasons for the lack of attention on a story like this is the lack of attention toward the war in general. You just dont see that much coverage of the afghan war on television or even in the newspapers these days. You and i have talked about this before. Its something we try to fix on my show the lead as often as we can talking about troops, talking about veterans. But look, the sad fact is, that the American People are very weary of war. We have been involved in a war since 2001. Its now 2014. And a lot of these stories are sad stories and the American People have grown weary of them. That doesnt mean we in the media dont have an obligation to tell them as much as possible in terms of what americans cant do, the most recent story we did about veterans had to do with a new program having to do with service dogs helping out wounded veterans, but it does make the task more difficult because you want to be telling stories that help you sell newspapers, attract viewers and right now the American People and obviously i think this is not a good thing, the American People have largely tuned this war out. And there are excellent sources for the information youre describing but its hard to find because people tune it out. Thank you for joining me on this. Thank you, brian. Time for a quick break. When i come back a moral dilemma for journalists. Why dont we call it what it is. A chicago communist raised, communist educated, communist nurtured subhuman mongrel. Thats hate speech. ll dive minutes. 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So call. To talk with an Insurance Expert about everything that comes standard with our base auto policy. And if you switch, you could save up to 423. Liberty mutual insurance. Responsibility. Whats your policy . Welcome back to reliable sources what is it with texas politicians and the has been rock guitarist ted nugent. Greg abbott has been campaigning with him and ted cruz considered campaigning with him too. As far as im concerned thats appalling. By now youve probably heard what nugent said about president obama. But if not let me play you the clip. I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod and not shame enough americans to be ever vigilant not to let a chicago communist raised, communist educated, communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the Acorn Community organizer gangster Barack Hussein obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority of the United States of america. Somehow nugent managed to stick every paranoid right wing rant against the president into one sound bite. Lets put aside politics for a moment and talk about journalists. Shouldnt journalists call this for what it is . Not some ramblingings of a colorful texas character but hate speech. Thats what it is, hate speech. One journalist did stand up this week and i found what he said to be inspiring. Heres what wolf blitzer said. Do they know the history of that phrase, subhuman mongrel . Thats what the nazis called jews leading up and during world war ii to justify the genocide of the community, they called them subhuman mongrels if you read some of the literature that the nazis put out. Theres a long history there of that specific phrase he used involving the president of the United States. So why arent more journalists showing backbone saying this is not the time for objectivity, there is nothing objective about outright prejudice. Joining me to talk about this is kristi hoppy, bureau chief of the dallas morning news. One of my producers referred this to click bait. Click the link or watch the segment but its not appropriate for journalists to be a repeating and giving attention to it. What do you say to that . Should journalists call this what it is . I think it is important because to judge a politician some of it is the company they keep and i think greg abbott made a decision to appear with ted nugent for three reasons. Gun, guns, guns. He liked ted nugents stance on the Second Amendment and highlight a difference between him and his opponent wendy davis who has an ambivalent feeling about the Second Amendment than greg abbott does. He his staff dropped the ball, they didnt look at google, they didnt see these other statements by ted nugent and they thought everybody would just look at the guns and not at the whole picture. So youre saying it is deserving of attention because this leading candidate for governor is making it deserving of attention. Right. The governor is of texas and the next one will be a national figure, just like rick perry was, just like george bush was, just like ann richards was. They are the leader of a large economically strong state that has a lot of pull in this nation and they get a spotlight on the things they do and greg abbott didnt expect the spotlight to spread as wide as it did when were looking at ted nugent and who he chooses to appear with. Have you seen any journalists in texas take a stand and speak out against this language of ted nugent . Do you think more should. I have seen columnist and editorial writers take fierce stands. Theres no doubt when you call somebody a subhuman mongrel, thats a dog whistle with braces and in a in a Republican Party that needs especially in texas to reach out to the Minority Community and growing Minority Community, ands in a governors race where the suburban woman will be an important vote this was a huge misstep and thats one of the reasons that got so much attention. This was a fail. In one of your stories you quote greg abbott saying i dont think theres anyone in the state disliked more than barack obama. Shifting attention away from news than barack obama. Do you see any signs that the campaign regrets the appearance with the appearances with nugent . Backtracking at all from this . Quietly they feel like that it was a mistake. At the same time, were texas. We like to say that and things happen big here and the truth of the matter is, politics in texas has always been a contact sport. So you know, its we have big characters and big races and a lot of fur flying. Were used to some national attention. Thank you so much for joining me and sharing something with us. Thank you, brian. Well be back with more reliable sources in a moment. Welcome back to reliable sources. Now i want to show you a movie clip, one thats played on television thousands of times but it really never gets old. In fact, the most chilling thing about it is how current it feels. Even though the Movie Network was made almost 40 years ago. Watch. So, i want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, im as mad as hell and im not going to take this anymore. Thats the actor peter fitch and his tirade as outraged news anchor howard beale in the 1976 film wrstill resonates today. Thats the most remarkable thing about this movie today, how much that character reminds you of people on television now. How much does it remind you of bill oreilly or Chris Mathews or to be fair, maybe piers morgan on this network . Dont get me wrong here, all of them are talented journalists and i dont think any of them are as crazy as the howard beale character but its a big part of television now. How did he know . How did he know the future of news looked like that decades before it happened . My next guest is a culture reporter at the new york times, my former colleague and the author of that is hell the making of network and the fateful vision of the angriest man in movies. Thanks for being here. Reunited and it feels so good. Thats right. You wrote about the making of the Network Years ago. This book is the result of that. How did paddy know . How did he foresee all Television News the way he did . It comes from a couple things in hiss career. Certainly he got his start as tv writer in what we consider the golden age. Hes writing marty, which became an Academy Awardwinning film. Then he kind of wanders in the desert, working in theater, motion pictures, trying to get back into tv but never satisfied with the work he was doing. In the mid70s, hes using his entertainment clout to get access to go behind the scenes at the news divisions of all the major networks. Abc, nbc, cbs. Exactly. Theyre letting him walk around and observe and see how he does business. They dont know what kind of script hell write. He doesnt even know. But he turns it into something thats deeply satirical and really does kind of its the story we know of a crazy an korman at a fourthplace net work that just wants to do anything it can to get peoples attention. You interviewed a bunch of current anchors, bill oreilly, stephen colbert. Did any of them see themselves . What did they tell you . They say their xetd or thes are howard behl, not them. But they embrace the idea something about Television News itself clearly changed in the era after network. Very helpful was keith olbermann, a huge fan of the film. I believe it came out when he was in college. Something happened in the 1980s before cable came to dominate. But something the film anticipated wz news could not be a loss leader for the networks anymore. It had to make a profit just like anything else on the network. Exactly. Thats when news became part of entertainment. Thats what happens in the film. You have the oldschool newsman, faye dunaway the newschool entertainment executive and she wins in the end. We see time and time again in surveys and anecdotes we can get all over that people want more straight news, serious news, the kind that gets harder and harder to find. Is that one of the messages of the movie . I think the film is in some ways its vividly a commentary on media, but its a larger story about alienation. The media has a vehicle for that. There is also the love story between holden and faye dunaway and how theyre, you know, driven apart and corrupted. You know, pad ti, the central character of the book, he was a very deeply feeling man. He was very attuned to a lot of things that were going wrong in the country. A little bit of a paranoid person as well. Which caused him drama during the making of the film. Exactly. Hefls literally on et every single day, unheard of for a screenwriter. In some ways he even had more authority than the director to really say this is how i want each scene shot. You know, if you said even one word of a line of dialogue wrong he was there to make sure that you said it the way he wrote it. Thanks for being here. Great to see you again. Well be back with more reliable sources. [ female announcer ] you get sick, you cant breathe through your nose. Suddenly youre a mouthbreather. Well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38 more than cold medicines alone. So you can breathe and sleep. Shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. 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We begin with news in from the ukraine. Opposition leader yulian tim chain coe released from jail this weekend says she does not want to be the countrys next leader. She spent more than two years in prison and addressed a cheering crowd last night. And president viktor yanukovych, who was voted out of office, apparently tried to leave the ukraine last night. Now no one know where is he is. The goldmedal hockey game was one of the highlights of this last day of the olympics competition. Canada wins. The russians werent even in it. But russia won the overall medal count with 33. Team usa finished second with 28. And drivers, start your engines. In just about an hour from now the daytona 500 begins. The annual race kicks off the nascar season. 43 drivers are vying for a win today. Among them reigning nascar champion jimmie johnson. And a restaurant manager is dead after a Carbon Monoxide leak last night in new york. 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