Thanks for joining us today. Thank you, juan. Let me begin by giving you the opportunity to tell people about the book the thesis. Well my thesis is that the Mainstream Media is one of the biggest causes of the polarization in America Today that the number of stories they put on the air that were wrong. Most of all of which were to get donald trump and to hurt republicans or conservatives the number of stories that they suppressed which would have hurt joe biden particularly during the campaign has added up to a nation that no longer trusts the Mainstream Media and our democracy needs to have a Mainstream Media that people rely on believe in and trust and the press has let us down. Well, so i think lots of people on the left would say gee, you know during the 2016 campaign. It looked like cspan msnbc certainly fox all were very much putting donald trump on the air repeatedly and they would say gee it looks like the press whether or not for ratings, you know for eyeballs and clicks. Wer
The campaign has added up to a nation that no longer trusts the Mainstream Media and our democracy needs to have a Mainstream Media that people rely on believe in and trust and the press has let us down. Well, so i think lots of people on the left would say gee, you know during the 2016 campaign. It looked like cspan msnbc certainly fox all were very much putting donald trump on the air repeatedly and they would say gee it looks like the press whether or not for ratings, you know for eyeballs and clicks. Were pretty supportive of donald trump in the 2016 campaign. Well, i i might rebuttal to that is the press made a news judgment in the news judgment was that donald trump was newsworthy because the press thought he was so bad. So at landish at the more they put him on the air the more the American People would reject him. And i think the tremendous damage done juan and i write this in the book was also done not just to conservatives who dont trust the media. But to liberals who do i i
Thank you, juan. Let me begin by giving you the opportunity to tell people about the book the thesis. Well my thesis is that the Mainstream Media is one of the biggest causes of the polarization in America Today that the number of stories they put on the air that were wrong. Most of all of which were to get donald trump and to hurt republicans or conservatives the number of stories that they suppressed which would have hurt joe biden particularly during the campaign has added up to a nation that no longer trusts the Mainstream Media and our democracy needs to have a Mainstream Media that people rely on believe in and trust and the press has let us down. Well, so i think lots of people on the left would say gee, you know during the 2016 campaign. It looked like cspan msnbc certainly fox all were very much putting donald trump on the air repeatedly and they would say gee it looks like the press whether or not for ratings, you know for eyeballs and clicks. Were pretty supportive of donald
Democracy needs to have a Mainstream Media that people rely on believe in and trust and the press has let us down. Well, so i think lots of people on the left would say gee, you know during the 2016 campaign. It looked like cspan msnbc certainly fox all were very much putting donald trump on the air repeatedly and they would say gee it looks like the press whether or not for ratings, you know for eyeballs and clicks. Were pretty supportive of donald trump in the 2016 campaign. Well, i i might rebuttal to that is the press made a news judgment in the news judgment was that donald trump was newsworthy because the press thought he was so bad. So at landish at the more they put him on the air the more the American People would reject him. And i think the tremendous damage done juan and i write this in the book was also done not just to conservatives who dont trust the media. But to liberals who do i i think back on 16 when most democrats and liberals were told. That Hillary Clinton was goi
Mainstream media and our democracy needs to have a Mainstream Media that people rely on believe in and trust and the press has let us down. Well, so i think lots of people on the left would say gee, you know during the 2016 campaign. It looked like cspan msnbc certainly fox all were very much putting donald trump on the air repeatedly and they would say gee it looks like the press whether or not for ratings, you know for eyeballs and clicks. Were pretty supportive of donald trump in the 2016 campaign. Well, i i might rebuttal to that is the press made a news judgment in the news judgment was that donald trump was newsworthy because the press thought he was so bad. So at landish at the more they put him on the air the more the American People would reject him. And i think the tremendous damage done juan and i write this in the book was also done not just to conservatives who dont trust the media. But to liberals who do i i think back on 16 when most democrats and liberals were told. Tha