Welcome to . Matter of fact. Americans on the right and left have very different visions of the state of our country and the direction for the future. Clearly, media drives the different conversations across the political spectrum, and in some cases, substituting facts with ideology. What role does the media play in shaping voters decisions . I spoke with the director and editor of center at the university of pennsylvania to understand what is driving our political divide. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Its good to be with you. Fernando thank you. Let me ask you about the role of what i would call ideological media. For example, fox news tends to identify more with conservatives and msnbc more with liberals. Everyone has some ideological lens, but that is part of their culture . Is this a silo for a Certain Group of people, or does it crossover . And how does it impact lets say more traditional media . Are they being pushed because they need to compete . Director jamison people are
Fernando hello. Im fernando espuelas. Welcome to . Matter of fact. Americans on the right and left have very different visions of the state of our country and the direction for the future. Clearly, media drives the different conversations across the political spectrum, and in some cases, substituting facts with ideology. What role shaping voters decisions . I spoke with the director and editor of the Public Policy center at the university of pennsylvania to understand what is driving our political divide. Welcome to the program. Thank you. Its good to be with you. Fernando thank you. Let me ask you about the role of what i would call ideological media. For example, fox news tends to identify more with conservatives. Everyone has some ideological lens, but that is part of their marketing, part of their positioning. How does that impact the overall culture . Is this a silo for a Certain Group of people, or does it crossover . And how does it impact lets say more traditional media . Are t
The flames started in Upper Providence a little more than an hour ago. Fortunately there are no reports of any injuries right now. We are still working to find out how this started and how badly the homes were damaged. We are also following a hazmat situation at a plant in maple shade, new jersey. A Chemical Spilled today and burned a worker there. Action newss chad pradelli is live at the scene at this moment but the response and the investigation, the very latest there. Chad. Reporter this company is called cvc thermal set specialties a company that makes epoxies according to its web site. Earlier today Maple Shade Police say there was some sort of Chemical Reaction inside the building behind me. An employee was injured. That employee was taken to Cooper University hospital for some minor burns. He did return here to this workplace a short time later. In the meantime Burlington County hazmat Burlington County Health Department they responded. They investigated this spill about two ho
An enormous step forward. Now, the agency has been in existence for only four and a half years, but has already done some important things. Its taken some enforce actions, its done policy work to protect those people who are not entitled or not eligible for anything other than subprime loans to protect them in the market. It has proposed some, some curtailment of the right to mandatory arbitration. But thats just the first step. That agency is under assault constantly in congress. I talked to my friend rich, he stopped counted the number of times hes been hauled up to the hill to testify. It was, i think, 50 at last count. Hes not only been there for a few years. We need more legislation, and in order oo eer to do that, we ne organize. We need to personalize these stories, and we need to look at the level of powers that are available to us and try to exercise power. So let me talk about a few things. One is if you look at mandatory arbitration, congress understands how powerful a force
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] taking a break in this conference titled breaking through power, organized by former independent president ial candidate ralph nader. It will be back about 1 20 p. M. Eastern time. We will bring you back your life right here as he sent to. A look outside the david mack complex at Hofstra University, cited tonights president ial debate. Three imams will pay most of the five milliondollar price tag for this debate. One of those alum is david mack who is a businessman and in real estate. This is the fur third time Hofstra University has hosted a president ial debate. The First University to hosted debates in three consecutive president ial races. Some of the media here getting set up along with their transmission trucks and vehicles.