Trumps taxes are the story of the day, all over television, all thanks to this New York Times headline. Trump tax records, he could have avoided paying taxes for nearly two decades. This landed on the front page of this mornings paper. How did the times get ahold of these records. September 23, reporter Suzanne Craig walked over to his mailbox and pulled out a pile of mail and spotted a manila envelope. It said trump tower. she was astonished. She wasnt sure if she believed it. Here to tell us the rest of the story is reporter Suzanne Craig. So you received this envelope in the mail. What were the three pages inside and what did they tell us about trumps records of taxes . There was three pages, and tay tell us, in short, there was a very large number with a negative in front of it, and it was his net operating loss. That number told us in short he had racked up enough losses over the years to essentially move that forward into future years, and be able to reduce his taxable income to
Nicole carol about what we need to preserve and protect while so much of media is changing. Lets take a big picture view as we begin this hour. This was the decade of streams and screams and the shared notion of truth. To see what has changed, look at some of the words that have been added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in the past ten years. There is bingable. Thats a new one. Screen time. Cyber safety. Also airplane mode. Plus click bait, emoji, meme. Thats a new one in the past ten years. And deep state, truther, alt right, idiocracy. Think back to 2010 before any of those words hit our lexicon. It was the year the ipad launched and the year instagram started. In 201135 of adults owned a smartphone now that number is up to 81 and still rising. You wake up and if youre anything like me, you wake up and we start scrolling. All day long our phone addictions have taken hold. These addictions start at a young age. New platforms keep popping up changing the way we communicate and chang
overturn the election, but we didn t know the extent, the extent where he used the legislative branch to try to overturn the election. it wasn t just overturning an election, it was the attack on overturning our election. that s an attack on our democracy and there is nothing more serious in our democratic policy than that. we need to dive into our responsibility to make important stories interesting. we need to keep the pressure and the focus on this, because it is urgent and it is not a past concern, it is a present day concern. to that point, david zurich, how should the media make this interesting, bring these stories to light? brian, this is such an important story, but the problem is it s very hard to convince citizens who are not engaged in this life how serious this is. what i mean by that is people, and especially people who might
to be unacceptable to make it. what about threats to journalists? we all agree there s been a rise of threats against journalists partly because of the president s rhetoric. got to change. got to stop. some things that don t need to change, some things we need to hold on to. number one, support of the fishs first amendment. we can t take our freedoms for granted. we have to choose them and defend them. defending the first amendment is the most important thing we can do for the health of journalism moving forward. david, what about you? we have to hang on to legacy values. we can t say we can compromise on this one, we can compromise on that one but we ll keep that one. that s the difference. that s what earns us the guarantees we have under the constitution. we have a public obligation to serve those values of truth, of giving citizens information they can trust. if we don t have a verifiable,
independent professional local news. local news strengthens communities and that s not going to change. david and nicole, thank you both. we are just getting started this hour talking about gathering and producing the news. it costs a fortune so who s paying? two billionaire families have two very different ideas about the direction forward. paul huntsman is the publisher of the salt lake tribune and mark benioff, the owner of time magazine , hear his prediction about the future of media next. s hundreds of travel sites and filters by cabin class, wi-fi and more. so you can be confident you re getting the right flight at the best price. kayak. search one and done.