Be that many people now accept obviously false information as the truth. The founder of shes the founder of. The founder. Over the past several decades the media have become more competitive their goal is not to provide their own interpretation of the days events or an interpretation of the truth as they see it their job is to stay ahead of their competitors so they all go out and cover the same stories that means that just a few big reports will make it onto the air or appear in print and other topics wont be covered at all. Once they finished covering a story journalists pack up their gear and move on to the next one. This behavior could raise doubts about their motives. Are they doing it just to keep up with the competition. Or are they trying to create a social consensus that could benefit business or financial interests. Look at how awful the wall street coverage is how wall street bankers or little more the thieves got away with all these kind of criminal acts which they dont get
Twenty sixteen was an exciting year the results of the u. S. President ial election in the bronx and referendum in the u. K. Surprised a lot of people in the run up to those votes there was a lot of fake news floating around some observers said that facts have become less important. The post truth age had arrived. At the time i was working on a film about journalism and i wanted to find out more about this new phenomenon. I had always believed that the truth was the truth and that anything else was just false so i decided to talk to colleagues and experts to see whether this was actually the case. I dont accept the. Kind of postmodern. Ideas that truth doesnt exist i think it does we can try to find there are certain levels of truth theres verifiable truth. That means that what you wrote cant be verified so we need a media that. Is able to filter those lies out expose them so that we can. Shape our society and the most honorable way that we can the government always lies they may not b
Good afternoon everyone. Welcome back from the break. We hope you enjoyed some coffee and refreshments. We had a terrific panel this morning and this afternoons panel or earlier this afternoon and this next panel promises to be just as informational and jam packed. So im going to turn things over to my partner and friend former ambassador to canada, currently a member of the u. S. And Global Boards of dentons. And just an all around good guy. Gordon. I hope somebody wrote that down. Welcome. Im biassed but even in the presence of my friend ambassador gary durham will claim this will be the most interesting panel of the day. And we even recruited an american to be on it. You were there playing an american i think, north american. So im honored to be here as the person facilitating this conversation. To my left physically but not idea logically is the former Prime Minister of canada, Steven Harper. To his left which may be true, im not sure, is the former speaker of the house Newt Gingri
Will be the one breakthrough in bipartisan negotiations. The release of two americans held by north korea. Kenneth arrived at a military base outside washington. North korea sentenced them to years of hard labor. There is no ill will. He would not have wasted the two years upon himself. I think he looks back and he wants good to come out of all of this for everyone involved. North korea says Matthew Miller was trying to investigate the countrys human rights investigation. Residents have overwhelmingly voted for independence. It may force spains Prime Minister open talks with officials. They have a number of gripes with the spanish government, including budget cuts and taxation. A year of austerity. Plus, a deadly ignition switch problem. Gm ordered a half a million replacements which is almost two month before telling the federal government there was a problem. This is according to emails by the wall street journal. Viewed by the wall street journal. This led to the recall of more than
Real estate portfolio worth as much as 30 billion to blackstone and wells fargo according to a person with knowledge of the matter. An agreement could be reached as soon as tomorrow. The firm says credit sius may shut down the government that and for next date foreignexchange business and put the securitization up for sale to an american competitor. Deutsche bank says credit suites may scale back their fixed income business in emerging markets. John paulson has merger strategy gains 10 this year thanks to consolidation among drugmakers. Bloomberg has learned the firm posting again last month using leverage to is using leverage to amplify returns. And has declined from a peak of 38 million in 2011. We have less than an hour to go before the close of trading. Scarlet fu is looking at the action on wall street. Looking for direction seems to be the name of the game. Scarlet muted is what i would call it. We are getting a little bit of a lift, but this is within a very modest range for the