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
The fires and then im going home in. The way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. Check warnings appear on tweets by donald trump u. S. President down his supporters say its another attempt to son succumb server to voices with an election just 6 months away from social Media Companies problems freedom of speech while rooting out misinformation this is inside story. Fellow welcome to the program and its. Donald trump is often called the tweeter in chief twitter is the us president s main social media platform its where he announces policies to more than 80000000 followers and ways attacked opponents and spread misinformation twitter is now in the president s firing line its placed a fact check warning on 2 trump tweets that falsely claimed postal ballots would lead to voter fraud the president accused twitter in a tweet of stifling free speech and silencing conservative voices donald trump has signed an executive order to review a law that protects social media under s
Check warnings appear on tweets by donald trump u. S. President down to his supporters so its another attempt to sun so a conservative voices with an election just 6 months away from social Media Companies ballance freedom of speech while rooting out misinformation this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and its. Donald trump is often called the tweeter in chief twitter is the us president s main social media platform its where he announces policies to more than 80000000 followers and ways attacked opponents and spread misinformation twitter is now in the president s firing line its placed a fact check warning on 2 trump tweets that falsely claimed postal ballots would lead to voter fraud the president accused twitter in a tweet of stifling free speech and silencing conservative voices donald trump has signed an executive order to review a law that protects social media under section 230. 00 of the u. S. Communications decency act Online Platforms are largely exempted from l
Of the pledge of allegiance but 1st heres my talk with legendary journalist Robert Scheer Robert Scheer its an honor to have you on the show great to be here you are truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine the l. A. Times the nation true dig radio shows things have changed a lot over the years in some ways there are actually fewer gatekeepers 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 were
Advertising with the surveillance that is the norm to the internet they can get all the readers of the New York Times without putting an ad in the New York Times so the Business Model is broken and its just become a playground for the rich or for people who want to influence opinion they can buy the soul trash and newspapers and so thats thats the bad part of it theres absolutely no free market restraint there is nothing of that so on on the other hand as long as we have Net Neutrality the very instrument that killed journalism is a model the internet is also quite liberating and that you know i did have true to guy now i have sure posts and im able to interview you for example at the modern Technology Gives us a lot of voices out there which is why they want to smash Net Neutrality and centrist saying everybody talks about a contest and imus n. B. C. And these i want to ships as if they have no politics but the fact is you know theyre the people who dont want the extra net to be free