Accomplishes by considering many factors including the words in your question the content of pages the expertise of sources and your language and location recently we introduce you to activist merriam had 9 who spoke of google manipulating search results at the expense of alternative Health Information and while googles Parent Company itself has pharmaceutical subsidiaries if you missed that show you can find it where youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture r. T. And merriam introduced us to a former Google Software engineer who says there are other ingredients in the secret sauce they were intending to sculpt the information landscape so that they could create their own version of what was objective lee true that for hes worked at google for 11 years he was a senior Software Engineer until he discovered what he called. So there are 2 official intelligence censorship weapons sack welcome to the big picture. Good to be on here thank you for having me on when th
America. Google has become of verb its internet search tool is that commonplace in our everyday lives like kleenex and scotch tape its become a generic term googles Corporate Mission statement is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful which google says it accomplishes by considering many factors including the words in your question the content of pages the expertise of sources and your language and location recently we introduce you to activist merriam 9 who spoke of google manipulating search results at the expense of alternative Health Information and while googles Parent Company itself. Has pharmaceutical subsidiaries if you miss that show you can find it where youll find all our shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture our t. And merriam introduced us to a former Google Software engineer who says there are other ingredients in the secret sauce they were intending to sculpt the information landscape so that they could create their own
Black and talk situations my. I had before he died. And i didnt find it funny. For me and headlines this hour check out our key dot com for more on those and other headlines you wont want to miss the big picture coming up next here. On this weeks show your newspaper or whats left of it notice how thin its gotten do you still read our copy newspaper your city still have a daily well talk with a digital disruptor who is making the most of the print media tailspin but 1st the president of the United States on the world stage as other World Leaders are laughing backstage yet trumps tribe is undaunted im holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our t. V. America. Dateline london the nato summit where President Trump soundbite rich appearance with other heads of state had him scoffing behind his back. Let us. Think. That. Others were amused trump was not. Well hes 2 faced. And i honestly wish to know hes a nice guy i find him to be a very nice guy but you know the truth is that
Readings in the salyut us there are many things threatening the United States freedom of the press these days hawk watchers from Government Agency infiltration be a retired intelligence and security agents like John Brennan James clapper running around cable news rooms influencing news stories as pundits and experts to major Government Contractors like multibillionaire jeff bezos buying a major news outlet like the Washington Post but those are the show youre more center stage examples theres actually another more insidious major threat to our press these days and its name is wall street and its crushing local newspapers across the country olympia snow smith writes and take on wall street that all over the country private equity and hedge funds have been scooping up these cash strapped papers and looting them into irrelevance or bankruptcy in fact between 20042800 United States lost. More than a 5th of the local newspapers in newsrooms at these local newspapers they lost half of their
T america boom bust producer brant job or an r t america correspondent john hardy thank you guys for joining me thank you for the boom bust team for coming out and daniel i want to start mask you actually these big private equity firms like all the global new Media Investment group who are buying up all these local papers all around the country and then slashing and burning them essentially how are they making money off of these scorched earth tactics like why are they even getting involved what whats the prize for them right now its a familiar formula similar to the essentially the same playbook that we saw in the 1980 s. Where people and corporate raiders would find need to stress kompany you know raid it divest it and then just get rid of the body essentially when they were done draining the blood and thats essentially whats happening in a similar way with these newspapers corporate conglomerates like as you mentioned all the acquiring the denver post Gatehouse Media recently acquir