another scary moment in the air. it is monday, we re glad you re with us. good morning, everyone. we begin with what you just saw, a southwest flight taking a terrifying turn. the cabin filling with smoke. we ll tell what you forced that plane to make an emergency landing. also new, a violent group of protesters stormed the construction site of a proposed meese and firefighter training senter in atlanta. what s behind the demonstrations. plus watch what you say. words hurt. you know, anybody that says words hurt has never been punched in the face. perhaps the vevent of the weekend, chris rock finally addressing what happened with him and will smith on that oscar stage. he comes out swinging. we ll get to that in a moment. we begin with protesters attacking the future site of a training facility that happened in atlanta last night. this is video capturing the moments that hundreds of protest ez swarmed the construction site wearing camouflage and masks. they threw
this new york times article by peter baker is details and, you know, conversation inside fox news, among executives in the days after the election. they re lamenting the fact they followed the facts. he followed a zoom. they got the receipts. these are not characterizations of comments. they re comments. these are the news folks who are saying, you know, maybe we should have considered talking about in some ways, bret baier is the person they point to to be the real news anchors. as a contrast to their opinion anchors. what this conversation shows is mark is saying, well, in this trump environment, maybe we shouldn t follow the facts so fast. that s incredibly dangerous. this is not a news organization. this is a partisan operation primarily. but the fates of fox news, the fear they have of their base, the fear of losing rate chgz is also about greed is a parallel
was being covered. objective news, do you think it has lost? objective newest is the goal, 1600 on the s.a.t. is a goal. being as wonderful as human being as you can, if it is not the goal that obviously you will get close to that. i am arguing for the vast majority of newsrooms that is not the objective. more and more opinion is being dressed up as news and you more and more news anchors we you can t tell if they are opinion anchors or if there news anchors and this is a grave danger. back to 1942 there was a big study dulled by the media about the media and the great blank alarm they set off was, make sure you separate news from opinion. you could have both but you need to separate them. the free press exist for people like free speech. it s an supposed to inform the people in these various platforms they will disappear or
justify tougher gun laws. others believe it was justified. others are others? just like with the shirley sharrod story. fox news has been very upset that they haven t yet been able to bait the rest of the real media into following this crazy conspiracy theory of theirs yet, and they are starting to overtly bait the mainstream media into covering it and they lash out and blame people who do not cover it yet. nbc nightly news is playing some serious catch-up, because the network news show has only mentioned the failed gun tracking program, fast and furious, once for a few seconds since the scandal broke last year. keep in mind attorney general holder has testified before congress no less than nine times. that was a host named brett bayer on fox news last night. he s supposedly one of the straight news, no opinion anchors on fox. that s the same brett bayer whose news program is ifg the militia blogger guy, the throw bricks through their windows guy.
bayer on fox news last night. he s supposedly one of the straight news, no opinion anchors on fox. that s the same brett bayer whose news program is ifg the militia blogger guy, the throw bricks through their windows guy. he s identifying him as an online journalist helping out with their coverage of the fast and furious scandal. this is a test. this is a test. we have been here before. we know how this ends. news media of america, you are getting baited to cover this story that fox and the right have cook up in their own marinade for more than a year now. are you going to swallow this one, too? s, we even reward you for the time you spent there. genius. yeah, genius. you guys must have your own loyalty program, right? well, we have something. show her, tom.