new york times. spent much time talking about the vast amounts of fake news being put out by the media and how that fake news has morphed o into the phrase enemy of the people. sad. the new york times confirmed the previously off the record meeting and explained it was held at the white house aat the request of the white house. however, according to sulzberg the purpose of the meeting was to raise concerns in his words about the president s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric. that it s not just divisive but increasingly dangerous. that s his word. he also told the president while the phrase fake news is untrue and harmful that he was much more concerned about trump labeling journalists the enemy of the people. the president didn t seem to like that and tweeted this defense. when the media reveals internal deliberations of our government, it puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk. very unpatriotic. freedom of the press also comes with responsibility to report t
welcome back. i m david gura. president trump is targeting journalists again tweeting this today. had a very good and interesting meeting at the white house with a.g. sulzberger, publisher of the new york times. president trump continuing, quote, spent much time talking about the vast amounts of fake news being put out by the media and how that fake news has morphed into the phrase enemy of the people. sad. president trump s aides asked for that meeting, which was at the president s request, to be off the record, but obviously that changed with president trump s tweet. so the publisher of the times gave us his read-out of what they discussed. quote, i told him although the phrase fake news is untrue and harmful, i am far more concerned about his labeling journalists the enemy of the people. i warned that inflammatory language is condition
and in some circles resentment remember the old apple-san bernardino issue? apple resisted hard in cooperating with the fbi in terms of getting into that individual s cell phone. there s sort of a sense in the congress that we re not and look, we understand the commercial everyone occasions of this. but there s a sense that you know law enforcement and the congress is probably not getting quite the level of responsibility and reaction that we would like to get from some of the technology companies. it s the old slippery slope argument that the nra uses. carey, you had a thought. go ahead. keep in mind this isn t just about disclosing secrets. it s the embarrassment factor. mark zuckerberg said around the election time that his platform that is part of the american fabric was not being misused, that there was a lot of claims of fake news being promulgated
and they kind of get into this circular situation of fake news being put out by other people for their own purposes. it could be alt-right, white nationalists, european people on the right as well. i think overall the question is, did this really affect the election. it s very hard to really pin that down. because how do you say how many fake stories does a person believe? what do experts think happen? is it hard for them to pin it down? do they have an idea of what happened? there are a couple reports that have come out, actually, i would say three pretty new and very interesting reports. and what they have done is, they ve taken the metadata for all of these fake news stories, and they ve kind of traced them back and said, okay, there s some people out there who are using click bait, you know what that is, getting people to click
sometimes they re blatant lies, sometimes they re half truths all mixed up. they put them out, and then they kind of get into this circular situation of fake news being put out by other people for their own purposes. it could be alt-right, it could be white nationalists, it could be european people on the right as well. so i think overall the question is did this really affect the election. it is very hard to really pin that down because how do you say, how many fake stories does a person believe. yeah. so what do experts think happened? is it hard for them to pin it down? do they have an idea of what happened, the experts? you know, there are a couple of reports that have come out, actually i would say three pretty new and very interesting reports. what they have done is they ve taken the metadata for all of these fake news stories and they ve kind of traced them