No say in its formation some of threaten to tear it down today in fact while the president has vowed to send in the National Guard if he has to try and stop you in this newscast with one word one word its a word that a year ago would have met very little but now seems to mean everything to almost every Single Person living on the planet earth and fact to many it means the difference between living and dying and that word is vaccine so let me get to it here is the news on the vaccine front there are 4 major laboratories racing right now to try and get a covert 1000 vaccine out right away they are johnson and johnson. Theyre u. S. Based by the way sanofi which is a french firm lab. Its also american and astra zeneca which is a British Laboratory there is news on 2 of them so let me bring you up to date on that going to start with madonna dern a is announcing that it is about to begin its 1st large Clinical Trial how large its going to inject 30000 adult trial participants volunteers they
A mistake adding i should not have been there correspondent ferrand fronsac is going to be along in just a little bit with more on this developing story while on the subject of apologies heres an interesting story we need to bring you the New York Times is acknowledging that the people of bolivia all but had their election stolen from them the times now writes that socalled Election Fraud. Fraud in bolivia that was used as an excuse or a pretense to remove a democratically elected president that fraud accusation they say it was a lie. Think about what i just said so evo morellos was elected. Really it seems and democratically within less than 48 hours after he was elected the European Union the organization of american states and the United States state department declared his Election Fraudulent which fomented a coup causing the elected president to leave the country only to be replaced by a new president one that is more to the liking of washington and the oas and the e. U. So should
Against Police Brutality so well be getting into that as well later in the show naomi cure vonnie will break down the militarization of our police and under is only will get into the insurrection act of 18007. 00 which trump said he wants to use to go to war with protesters but 1st heres my interview with eleanor goldfields eleanora things for journeying all the way from our podcast to my show i appreciate it. Thanks so much for having i want to get to the new film in a moment but lets start with the nationwide black lives matter protests youve been at some of them as have i but you were pepper sprayed and saw some harsh Police Action can you talk about that and how journalists have been treated so far in these protests. Yeah i think its an interesting thing that the folks kind of erupted in shock folks that arent already familiar with alternative journalists and and all of the things that we have to deal with but when c. N. N. Reporters were arrested during the minneapolis protests ev
At some of them as have i but you were pepper sprayed and saw some harsh Police Action can you talk about that and how journalists have been treated so far in these protests. Yeah i think its an interesting thing that the folks kind of erupted in shock folks that arent already familiar with alternative journalists and and all of the things that we have to deal with but when c. N. N. Reporters were arrested during the minneapolis protest everyone lost their minds like this is so unamerican and when i went to the protest here in washington d. C. Roughly a week ago i remember connecting with a fellow journalist friend of mine and we both kind of chuckled at that like really thoughts on american because im pretty sure thats very american you know this is something that weve had to deal with both as activists but also journalists who try to report on these things from the frontlines places that often times reporters from Corporate Media dont even go you know im thinking about like pipeline
Scheer Robert Scheer its an honor to have you on the show great to be here you are bad i truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine in the l. A. Times the nation true dig radio shows things have changed a lot over the years in some ways theyre actually fewer gate keepers then when you started and you know anyone can post articles online and ostensibly get them seen by the world but on the other hand the Mainstream Media is now owned by just a handful of massive corporations how do you feel journalism and news media have changed over the course of your career is it better or worse. We should not under our underestimate the worse at least there used to be something about attracting eyeballs or having readers and so when i was at the l a times it wasnt easy to fire me because there were lots of people want to read me so there was a marketplace restraint that is gone now they dont need eyeballs would you targeted advertising with the surveillance that is the norm to the inter