That across the country, states re scrambling to fill teachers roles, california hit hardest. California, the situation is more stark. California lost 82,000 jobs in the recession, teacher jobs. They are trying to fill 21,500 for this this slots coming school year. Also, a story about cocacola and obesity. The front line is that the company, cocacola, funds and effort to curb the obesity battle, emphasis on exercise. Critics say this message is misleading. Some other news for you this morning. Front pages of wall street New York Times this morning. Floyd in indiana, an independent. What do you think of Political Correctness . Caller i think donald trump is exactly right. I have been watching cspan for a long long time. They come up with different lives on every situation. I watched the debate on thursday night, and all of the questions they asked the different candidates, no one asked the question about what they would do on iran. All of them are talking about what obama and Hillary Clinton didnt do, but they never asked the question. Stuff istical correct a bunch of politicians getting up and telling the same lies over and over again. Everyone will go to washington and change washington. In two years, you dont hear from them. Thats my take. All right. Janice, jacksonville, florida. Caller good morning. The comments i wanted to make a commercial katie couric did, democrats used in 2008. That commercial forcefully said that the real issue in this campaign is sexism, and the fact that no one is doing anything about it. That commercial somehow got pulled after about two showings. Here we go again with donald trump. For people to think the liberal media that is ridiculous. The media, the Mainstream Media, for the most part, they hold up a standard of decency that we all need to Pay Attention to. Yes, it should be politically correct to be decent to people. The media, brilliantly, took the and word and i am southern, im glad they did it, they took and made it zerotolerance overnight. I wish they could do the same for the women. I am willing to let them expose this was wrong, this was despicable, and it should not be tolerated host . Alright, im going to leave it there and get in one other headline. The Michael Brown anniversary, as many of you know, over the weekend in ferguson. Police shoot suspect in ferguson. People are watching to see if eruptsiolence of a over the next few days. Don, you are next. Caller i think Political Correctness exists on the east and west coast. They fly over the country. We dont buy into Political Correctness. It is often times stupid speech. I have one observation about the debate and the treatment of trump. I didnt know that the moderators, as representatives of the Republican Party, would ask him questions on that. I thought that if it was a really fair debate, it would have had a question, and that would have been answered by all 10 candidates. They definitely personalize the whole thing too much. I was really disappointed at fox, and i am a republican. Host do you watch fox a lot of . Caller i do. I watch all the time. Im kind of rethinking it a little bit, not that my views have changed, but i think fox has become well, politically correct. I think that is a sign for me that theyre not talking the truth. Host all right. Medial talk about coverage of this campaign and Public Policy debates here in washington. First, we will talk with tim graham, executive editor of newsbusters. Later, we will talk with Eric Boehlert of media matters. First, the Brookings Institute held an event on the future of afghanistan. The issue of afghanistan in the papers this morning, taliban leadership shifts. Take a look at what general John Campbell had to say last week on the future of this country. [video clip] them a the afghan side, the security forces, they are doing 98 90 9 of this on their own. Im providing trade advising assist at the core level and some of the special operating forces level. They have this, and they have this on the time that has been very tough. I think they continue to progress. I dont think i think the taliban is starting to realize, and realize before the fighting season, that they needed to do something spectacular this make ag season to statement that they are relevant, but again, theyre not making the gains that they talked about. Are they having highprofile attacks . Yes. One or two people with a suicide the best running into an ngo, that is very hard to stop. Again, i think the Afghan Security forces continue to improve. The people need to continue to stand up and identified a person in the village that doesnt belong there. As they do that and partner with the Afghan Security forces, i dont think they will be beat. Host to watch more of what the general has to say on afghanistan, you can go to our website, cspan. Org. At a table, tim graham, director of the Media Research centers media analysis program, as well as executive editor of newsbusters. Lifting your general reaction of the debate last week. Was it fair . A lot of people have a mistaken idea of what happened there. I think all the candidates got rough questions. I think people need to look of the transcript again. You can say, look, some of the questions were hardhitting, sometimes sensational, or personal, but it was a good show. I think theyre right to suggest that these are some questions that they expect liberal moderators to ask. Some of them fairly hard hitting questions. Host what did you make of that . The effort by the moderators, the fox anchors, to ask questions that Many Republican viewers were surprised at and disappointed with . Guest i know republicans want ,uestions that are substantive that would be good. Everyone wants substance. Everyone wanted to see trump get asked questions of substance, to see his reaction. This is the problem of Media Coverage so far, theyre covering trump as a tablet figure, and all of the wild and crazy things that he says. While trump dominates the coverage, the coverage says, isk at how trump dominating the coverage. I was hoping the debate would broaden out the coverage and allow some candidates some breathing room. Host is that the fault of the media . The moderators . The candidates . It is the media. I turned on the tv last night, and thought, child dominating the news trump dominating the news. It all feeds on itself on some level. I wouldnt say that coverage of trump has been positive, it has been largely negative, just like the coverage of Hillary Clinton has been largely negative so far. I think the problem with politics as we dont get enough of it. So much stuff that doesnt have anything to do with politics. You have a small hole that has to do with the campaign. The edges sink thing about trump running is the amount of coverage of the republican race went up dramatically because they thought that people would find this interesting the way they like thunderstorms, but mudslides. Host what is the media missing about these candidates and their campaigns, and the Public Policy issues . Guest there are a lot of things to talk about. I think one of the things that they are not talking about is just the way the Obama Presidency has gone. That is obviously a major issue. If you come in in 2007, and say, lets have a debate and not talk at all about what the administration has done, that would be interesting. During the bush years, it was always, every day, what is the latest bush fiasco . Which ever present we have, how they decide to use executive power beasley, the way this president has used it is surprisingly noncontroversial. More substance. I think the Networks Today think viewer whoscerning really wants to see the candidates has lots of choices, they have cspan, youtube, all kinds of ways to get their news. To make their money, they would rather do stories that their consultants tell them will square with viewers. Host there has been criticism that the real intent of the Fox News Network and monitors was to field. The fille we just heard from a viewer that said the media wants us to vote for jeb bush, just like they wanted us to vote for mitt romney. Guest i think there is that feeling at this point in a race. In some cases, it has been more dramatic. In the happy hour debate, the question was, why are you waitin running fo president , you dont have a chance. I certainly would share that concern. It is so early, that is the way things to be discussed, why dont they just yeah, policy questions would be good. I think its fine to say, why dont we asked the same question of 10 people. I think the concern there was it is not great television. In the Republican Debate, they thought maybe they would sound a lot alike on these issues. If they said, trade policy, go. That would not be very exciting. We will see if the candidates go onto the next debates, how it will be different. Host the progressive watchdog group, media matters, coming out websited this on their guest when you take a group that is basically hillary asts that she basically founded media matters. For them to say that anyone is putting out propaganda, that stuff. Ty rich the reaction from these people is that it is all a charade, they cant really be this way, it is all an evil and affairs conspiracy i just dont buy it. Host how is the media covering Hillary Clintons campaign and the democratic nomination process versus the republican candidates and that nomination process . Guest Hillary Clinton, on the evening news, has the most amount of coverage. She has about 190 minutes of comes in second at 116 minutes. She has dominated the democratic. Ace if you look at a candidate that has done the most positive coverage, not the most amount, that would be Bernie Sanders. His coverage has been remarkably positive, about the size of his crowds, and his appeal. The coverage of mrs. Clinton has been pretty negative, a lot of that on her emails. I think what is remarkable to us is how she has decided to run this campaign, saying, she is not granting interviews or doing sunday shows like donald trump. She will just run and not to much press at all. It is amazing to me that she can get away with that. The media did not have much selfrespect when they were roped in on the street. Tot she response on twitter wherever the debate is happening, in washington, were out of washington, she will come to twitter. What do you make of candidates using that rather than the Mainstream Media . Can be the most consultant driven material. It is not the same as the backandforth with journalists. She is running a very canned campaign. Is exactly what she didnt in 2007. They were doing more immediate back then than what she is doing now. Back then, abc had 45 minute town Hall Meetings with the candidates. Republicans never get that kind of airtime. Host we are talking about media politics with tim graham, the media analysis director for the Media Research center, he is also the executive editor of newsbusters and coauthor of the. Ok collusion barb. E up first, caller thank you for taking my call. I have been watching cspan for years and years. Ive what you call one of the old ones because i am in my 70s and have been involved in politics all of my life. I worked for john kennedy, and also bobby. I have changed totally over because ive not interested in the media and politics being able to tell us what is politically correct. Im Backing Trump because he is a leader. As far as the 10 up there, you part of his cabinet from them. They have some sharp ones up there. Im also a backer of ted cruz, i would love to see him as Vice President. Cspan, we dont get people. That is open to ever anyonelly what thinks. We are not talking about what is really wrong in a mess right now in all directions. We have to get someone in there who can change it and turn it around. I think trump can. Guest again, i think theres a lot of appeal in trump, and that is where the media comes in. With ross perot, there was this whole notion of running the government as a business. People love this idea trump because he can be either the guy who takes the nomination and the bull in the china shop, or becomes a thirdparty candidate. Ike ross perot host what do you make of barb sentiment is that there is this antiestablishment, and in that, against the established media. It is not just what is happening in congress or the white house. It is skepticism and cynicism towards the Mainstream Media. Guest the media has a lot of power. One of the reasons we do what we starting with john kennedy, television became a big factor in who becomes president. Now, we are at a point where the media seems to want to say who the president will be, but when they become president , the issues are too boring. Toont expect there will be much heavy coverage of the epa regulations. This is not the kind of story they like to do. They would rather have, what did trump say about megyn kellys time of the month. To some extent, it is insulting, really, to the voter. They think, we have a lot of people in the audience who dont vote or vote rarely, so that is not our concern, it is how many times can we get people to watch the red lobster commercial. Host what you make of the interest . Guest again, here is a figure, kind of a tablet figure, and what will he say next. You probably had a much higher democratic audience for this than you would normally have for a Republican Debate because they were looking at what kind of train wreck this would be. I was surprised at how large it was, it was probably twice as large as i expected it to be. We will see if that continues. This is one of the reasons why they are doing so much coverage fo of trump because they think he is good for their business. That is one of the stories you can find on the Media Research website. Frank is a democrat in colorado. Caller i have a question. Trump is entirely a media creation. I was wondering whether you think having someone like donald trump, someone who is otherwise a reality show presenter with a , running a money viable president ial campaign, does that represent the end of our fair and true democracy and fair and true Media Coverage in america as we know it . Calleri like the who is making the point that trump is being seen as a populist, not a lobbyist. That he gave money to Hillary Clinton to come to his wedding is what lobbyists expect. Don chubb has the right to run for president. He has one of the things that all the candidates want, he has a very high name. He has been the representative of the new York BusinessCommunity Since the 1980s. He has been a route along time. You can see where that media would find him an interesting candidate. It is funny and away because i think journalist think he does it have any experience. He would probably need a lot of education as to how to be president , but they are just enjoying the ride right now and want to see where it goes. I think they all expected that he would not file his Campaign Finance disclosures. They are writing it riding it. Host houston, texas, a republican. Caller i think is really important that if you look at the indicator of 24 million watching the debate tells me what i have been knowing for at least two decades now, and that with the media, and their propaganda for democratic and republican causes. I think we are starting to wake and are nowct rejecting anything that the media is doing, just to show them that we are sincere about what we will look for in a candidate. I will say that i would rather trump than any of the gop wellwishers, such as jeb bush. I think we have to stick together, and recognize that abc, cbs,turn off the nbc, and cnn, and start really listening to what our hearts are saying, we will find that this country is really going to go downward until we decide it is time weve had enough of what the trees it is treasonous media has done. Guest i would not say treasonous, necessarily. Again, the problem is lets take a look at Something Like the national debt. This is not a story that they do. You can look at all of the coverage of 200 2012 and look deficit, and you will have a hard time. We have this remarkable trillion dollar deficit as far as the aiken c, and they decided it was not going to be an issue, not going to be on the table. That is something where you say, if the National Media would like to represent itself as a referee for politics, it is missing a lot of the time. Its main focus is always who is up, who is winning, who said what about who, and the substance gets lost a lot. Ost robert, an independent you are on the air. . , . Comment . On or donald it is about trump. Why didnt they ask the rest of the representatives have a businesses do you own, how many people are you hiding . Butthey are doing nothing there is not one of them worth voting for except for. Trump he doesnt want their money, he doesnt need their money, he is running his own campaign. He doesnt want anything to do with them. Why in the world the american citizens cant wake up and realize that we need a man like that in there that knows business, knows how to run business because america is a business. I but we understand that, what you make of how he is being covered by the television networks, by the print media. Caller i tell you, they are all afraid of him. All of them out there are in the pockets of lobbyists, special isnt. Ts, and trump the rest of them, all they want is whatever money the lobbyists and special interests can pu