the platforms. but is that the right solution? should there be more oversight? those are questions for 2019. and the number one media story of 2018 was president trump s war on the press getting real. anti-media words from the president are nothing new. they re truly an enemy of the people. the fake news. this year, we saw actions and consequences. there were physical threats, like a series of package bombs mailed by a trump supporter. the targets are some of the president s critics and cnn. do they have projectiles, excuse me, sounds like a fire alarm. we ll keep you posted. they say the device is in the cnn building. it was a package that was mailed. the suspect was arrested. so were two others that phoned in threats to news rooms. but instead of lowering the temperature, trump amped it up
our singular objective as a company right now is to increase the health of public conversation. conspiracy theorists like alex jones have been kicked off the platforms. is that the right solution? should there be more oversight? those are questions for 2019. the number one media story of 2018 is president trump s war on the press, getting real. antimedia words from the president are nothing new. they are truly an enemy of the people, the fake news. this year we saw actions and consequences. there were physical threats like a series of package bombs allegedly mailed by trump supporter. the targets were some of the president s critics and cnn. did they have project iiles. that sounds like a fire alarm. we ll keep you posted on that. it was a package mailed into
on the president, getting real. anti-media words from the president are nothing new. they are truly an enemy of the people. the fake news. but this year we saw actions and consequences. there were physical threats, like a series of package bombs, allegedly mailed by a trump supporter. the targets were some of the president s critics and cnn. the device was a package mailed that made it into the building. the suspect was arrested and so were at least two other men who phoned in threats to newsrooms. but instead of lowering the temperature, trump amped it up with events like this. sit down, please. silt dow sit down. i didn t call you. i didn t call you.
takes up an entire city block here. simone procupez or crime and justice reporter has been working with pd to get information. they took this seriously as they always will, but they were in the building for quite some time. in order for them to evacuate a media company, a building like this that is big undertaking for the nypd and that s not something, probably a decision they made lightly because they had to know we were on the air here at the time they were going to evacuate. but clearly there was something that concerned them greatly to do this kind of an evacuation on just a phoned in bomb threat is not something that the nypd takes it s not a decision they take lightly. so clearly they were very concerned here given the climate, given the history, given what we have been through already with those other package bombs, the one that was mailed here to us in new york and also the one in atlanta.
something like that? on the ground everybody felt it was a transformational moment. coupled with the package bombs, enough that things had to change. did we reach a point at which the president s hitting his limits to change the conversation in the country? sure. dangers of someone s neighbor walk in to a synagogue and kill people. it s just complete tone deaf. and just political gamesmanship to such an extent that if you were a supporter in and around pittsburgh, which there are many, you know, trump supporters there, you just kind of have to take a step back and say, we just had one of the worst attacks in recent memory. this is domestic extremism. you re more likely to be killed by an american extremist than you are by isis. a caravan is not threatening you. you re looking at pictures of women and children mostly being carried up through mexico. you re sending troops to the