A major disruption in the travel industry particularly airlines we dig into the struggles of the sector with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And there is a big move coming from u. S. President donald trump the president will reportedly target facebook and twitter in an executive order d regarding social media according to a draft that appears to have leaked online now the draft version of the order which could still change names Facebook Google and twitter and targets a section of u. S. Law under which tech platforms largely arent liable for what their users post and are fairly free to police content joining us now to discuss this with a bunch cohost investigative journalist of course ben swan now ben theres a lot to unpack your what exactly is the rule that President Trump is attempting to amend and why is he actually doing that and how big of a deal would it be for these social media companies. Yes so for started at the very end there its a very big deal its actually somet
So there was a marketplace restraint that is gone now they dont need eyeballs with the targeted 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 to dig i now i have sheer 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 contests and imus and b. C. And these i want to ships as if they have
Police in minneapolis has now turned into a National Protest movement in different u. S. Cities demonstrators are taking to the streets and in some cases these protests have turned violent. We begin in Minneapolis Police where and 7 strangers have been clashing for more than 2 days now with opportunistic looters taking advantage of the situation late last night memphis angry residents there took to the streets to demand justice and to ask for investigations not just in George Floyds case but for many in their own city civil rights activists say memphis has a spree of Police Incidents that remain unresolved and in los angeles angry demonstrators took to bypasses in some cases attacking Police Vehicles as they approached leaving several people injured. If there is a kernel of hope or at least a difference in how past cases of police abuse have been handled compared to this case the timeliness of the reaction in years past in cases like baltimore and ferguson and miami and Los Angeles Pol
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 yet youve added a truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine and the l. A. Times the nation true deg 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 and 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 e
Corridors of power here in washington d. C. Are seeing a nation rise up in one voice and scream enough is enough black lives matter reform and justice are coming and the old ways of oppression and white power are ending how do you know they are as frightened as schoolchildren on report card day well because they are now turning us streets into war zones starting with the Nations Capital as d. C. Is reports the chief of the National Guard bureau confirmed tuesday that an additional 1500. 00 National Guardsmen would join the response to protests in d. C. After 1300. 00 were deployed on monday defense secretary mark asper who spent wednesday morning up posing the United States President Donald Trump the chicken hawk in sheeps threats of military reprisals against u. S. Citizen well he abruptly reversed a decision to order active duty troops home from the National Capital region on wednesday and now. An illustration leopold and Anthony Cormier of buzz feed are reporting that quote the Drug