A look im also incredibly appreciative push underway to stop broadcasting the Coronavirus Press conferences live c. N. N. Has already limited their coverage why and could the future of the news industry be in jeopardy because of the virus local ad dollars are drying up causing layoffs and pay cuts his face book about to come to the rescue. Im Steve Malzberg lets see the press. Go. By. Then welcome aboard everybody i want to start by you know wishing heartfelt best wishes to everyone out there who is suffering in any way from the coronavirus and to all those who have lost loved ones. My condolences and all of our condolences go out to you art go out to you and i want to well also wish the best to chris cuomo of c. N. N. Who announced this past week that he has tested positive for the coronavirus ive been harsh on him but all bets are off when it comes to this its a whole different story Everything Else goes out the window to get well everyone and get well chris i pray now were all used to the you know the back and forth the confrontations between c. N. N. White house correspondent jim acosta and the president of the United States well earlier this week the president decided to give it one more try watch. Go ahead lets give it a shot. What do you say to americans who are upset with you over the way you downplayed this crisis over the last couple of months we have a very much under control in this country the coronavirus is very much under control in the usa its going to disappear its like a miracle it will disappear and its people like you and c. N. N. That say things like that that its why people just dont want to listen to c. N. N. A more you could ask a normal question the statements i made are i want to keep the country come i dont want panic in the country i could cause panic much better than even you i could do much of it would make you look like a Minor League Player but you know what i dont want to do that and instead of asking a nasty snarky question like that he should ask a real question. All right agreed nah i want you to watch something i want to show you something theres an anti trump spot that has been running all over the media put up by priorities usa action and a reportedly a george soros backed group and im going to run side by side some of the quotes that i brought up and trump quotes used in that ad and you decide if a cost got his talking points for that question from the ad watch we have a very much under control in this country we have a totally under control because its going to disappear its like a miracle it will disappear one day its like a miracle it will disappear were doing a great job with it it will go away good to the great so what do you think folks did he use the anti trump ad to take the one liners out of it out of context of course and then throw it at the president i believe he did and thats my opinion but you have to decide in the fascist suite is going to have more on that ahead by the way later on in the show now last sunday c. N. N. s jake tapper tweeted out that he was going to have the mayor of new york city go to blasio on his show on state of the union i did answer that tweet and i said so you know wondering you could ask bill de blasio tough questions about his horrible response to the outbreak of the coronavirus and i was pleasantly surprised by what i saw watch. Just go about your lives continue living as you have new yorkers should go about our lives continue doing what we do should not stop you from going about your life should not stop you from going to chinatown and going out to eat we want people still to go on about their lives. We want people to rest assured that a lot is being done to protect them. That last clip was from march 13th just about 2 weeks ago in retrospect is that message at least in part to blame for how rapidly d the virus has spread across the city jake we should not a focusing in my view on anything looking back. On anything that makes me look bad and tapper kept at it watch mr mayor you say you dont think you should look backwards but youve criticized president truck for quote actions that are far far behind the curve kudos kudos to jake tapper i got to give him credit in shame on mayor bill de blasio and finally something i have never seen. On a night on a news show on television and it was craig maldon on of all places m. S. N. B. C. Watch but never actually done this on the air can you lead us in prayer for 30 seconds. Yes its all our fault that our we are the instant you had the will of the understanding that we are not competent in and of ourselves to handle this kind of global calamity so we look to you lord to be the source the spirits of help the light that weve made strengthen all of 1st responder strips of the things of our broadcast people sense that all of us whose lives have been devastated have disrupted they give us the peace of this is all it is to them cry staying where they. Did hence exploded m. S. N. B c i cant believe it good for mel that it was highly appropriate. And joining us now to discuss whats been going on in this crazy world of media is the president of accuracy in media Adam Gillette you can find him at 8 i am dot org and welcome aboard the i welcome back hey they have thank you so much for having me back live to be here. My pleasure lets pick up on that moment of prayer i know and its n. B. C. Now we just saw the negative reaction to the my pillow founder mike lindale who said a prayer and asked that people really embrace their religion at one of the recent press or is it at the white house want you to watch a gave us grace and no memory 2016 to change the course we were on god had been taken out of our schools and lives a nation to turn his back on god and i encourage you do since time at home to give them to home to get back in the word read our bibles and spend time with their families and heres just one example of the media trashing lindau and then granted and suster and blast him in return what did you think of the media treatment of my pillow guy after he made that prayer at the White House Well its exactly what youd expect of their base at m s n b c their base at the Washington Post the New York Times all rabid antichristian generally progressives so theyre just trying to virtue signal and appease that base put out content that that base wants to read if they reported accurately that a successful businessman promoted prayer at a white house meeting which really isnt particularly controversial their base wouldnt be that interested in it but if they go after him and slam moment attack him and attack christianity their base its right up. And heres a guy and who was a volunteer during that his company was going to help with the coronavirus effort in making masks and medical supplies they ignored that and they just called of basically the michaela guy whats he doing there well hes contributing but youre right they have that agenda and nothings going to stop them from their agenda now i want to move out of on to the the cold to stop. These president ial virus Task Force Press conferences daily briefings stop airing them live in their entirety watch i think regular information in times of crisis from the government on sort of a science and facts and policy are essential but i personally cant help but feel these daily sessions are are bad for the country and even dangerous from a Public Health perspective i have said that i dont think that you should really listen to what he says you should listen to what the experts say im not actually sure if you want to be honest that we should carry that live i think we should run snippets i think we should do it afterwards and get the pertinent points to the American People because hes never ever going to tell you the truth now and then made those remarks on monday night and then by tuesday c. N. N. It already started to editing out the press conference no its morally outrageous what has become incredibly clear is that particularly in an Election Year these are activists not journalist initially the charge against trump on handling this crisis was that he was absent he wasnt doing enough so trump starts giving regular briefings what happens his poll numbers go up will suddenly as soon as his poll numbers went out these press conferences became a big problem and the media decided well shoot hes doing too much we got to stop showing the press conferences i bet you anything if his polling numbers had suffered during the press conferences oh yeah they would be airing them back to back to back now that they see the liberal people are responding to him theyd probably like to run reruns of angel cuomo. Im absolutely and by it both c n n n m s n b c have now stopped taking all of the press conference its outrageous now i want to show you something that c. B. S. Did on c. B. S. This morning late lead like the end of march to get it they aired video claiming it was a new york City Hospital dealing with the corona virus but it actually had previously on sky news and it was from an Italian Hospital watch lets take a look. This is the main hospital in the thumb of profit its one of the most advanced. And c. B. S. Acknowledged what they did i mean how does this happen. Well its unbelievable because yes we all make mistakes they make mistakes inserting videos theyre doing so many stories i make mistakes as my wife reminds me you make mistakes but its amazing that their mistakes always seem to fit the media narrative that theyre trying to put out there and they never missed it make a mistake in the opposite direction they never goof up and it triggered something positively to conservatives or to the president all of their mistakes seem to fit the same narrative its funny how that always works out and about your fine organization accuracy in media recently got buzz feed to make a change. Talk about what you guys did i see that they changed the headline they didnt go far enough but they did make a change talk about that you know we all but moaned the c. B. S. Is the m. S. M. B. C. S. But they largely preach to the choir in my opinion the most dangerous and most influential quote unquote news outlets out there are folks like buzz feed and now this because they have a following thats all across the ideological spectrum and theyre primarily followed by easily influenced young people after that story broke last week about the unfortunate man who consumed aquarium cleaner and died because it contained chloroquine phosphate some news outlets reigned with the story that i made a korean cleaner and died buzz feed ran with the headline a man died after self medicating with a drug that trump promoted as a potential treatment for the coronavirus trump promoted hydroxy chloroquine as a proper attention treatment he never promoted aquarium cleaner and he never promoted chloroquine phosphate and this is such a bad headline because not only is it searing the president but now if course if hydroxy chloroquine turns out to be a drug that could help people how many are going to be afraid to take it because they read a lying headline that it killed a man so we rallied our activists we went after them on twitter the email on facebook and they change the headline yeah no they did it congratulations kudos to you and him thank you very much and everybody go to a i am dot org and you can check out all the great work accuracy in media does speak see you again. Ok folks we hope that piqued your appetite and i want you to stay right where you are for the main course which is coming up right after this break on the press. In london Julian Assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u. S. To face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher i saw inches live even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you wouldnt know that the mainstream media. Was you cant win every single time eventually some workers have to participate in the American Economy the American Economy is not just buying for kleptocrats its not vying for terrorists like theres labor involved people who work with people our families our values are to American History that like a state that has to be respected at some point you simply cant throw the 2 groups of wall street charlatans and give them 6789 trillion dollars and expect them to whip up something thats not outright an act of terrorism. I cant show you my face but im going to teach you must store in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. Charged with capital murder even though he didnt have the gun didnt pull the trigger didnt intend to kill anybody imagine living in your bathroom for the week with his son of a 23. Confined within 4 gray walls the phone its using. Turn on to help him to leave defense room. Now earlier in the show i showed you some clips from an ad that has been running in very heavy rotation all over the cable news media and its all about blaming President Trump for the advance of the coronavirus and here with more much more in fact on the spot is our tease natasha sweet a touch of what he got force. Well yeah steve even though president has been staying ahead of the curve helping the u. S. To defeat the current a virus and eventually getting us all back to work the left is doing everything they can to somehow blame him for covert 19 and this anti trump ad from the soros funded priorities usa action will show you just how desperate they are the pay the president and negative lights this ad aired more than 1000. 00 times over a week span of march 21st to the 27th according to Advertising Analytics priorities usa was the top advertiser for the week they spent 6000000. 00 airing the initial ad and the liberal super pac has pledged to spend a whopping 150000000 in the 20 twentieths cycle supporting the democratic nominee and against President Trump the coronavirus this is their new home we have a totally under control one person coming in from china one day its like the miracle that will disappear when you have 15 people and within a couple of days its going to be down to close to 0 you know we think youve done a great job of keeping it down to a minimal i like the stuff i really get here i was surprised that i understood you know i dont take responsibility at all now it doesnt take a genius to see that ad was pieced together by many sound bites taken out of context theres no question the coronavirus narrative changes each day sometimes by the hour even advice from the center for Disease Control and prevention is being looked into regardie masks initially when one was not recommended and this week were hearing a different tune from Health Professionals and city leaders who will finance democratic super pac is targeting ads in the 4 major swing states of florida michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin for new creatives that launched march 24th that will run through april 6th are focusing on President Trumps response to the crisis and how joe biden would do things differently news busters also reporting more news coming from soros but this time from his progressive outlet called open democracy apparently theyre using this. Time of crisis to insert their propaganda against the family unit they claim this pandemic may have revealed the limitations of the private Single Family households and they actually even had the nerve to suggest abolish the family and the private household citing an increase in Domestic Violence as families stay home the article says quote the private family quote mode of social reproduction still frankly sucks it genders nationalizes and races us it norms us for Productive Work it makes us believe we are individuals well many would argue that faith family and values are the very things which built our country having a family and the ability to work are all blessings and part of the american dream. And its interesting in that article suggests working in is a bad thing during a time when many people would simply love to have their jobs back steve yeah well excellent report and excellent take on this and i got to say theres no one virus related ad like this week and that nonsense you just feel this is not so misleading but you know they have every right to run it every right to institute spew that information not sure steve you know under the 1st amendment you are completely right even though the ad is very deceiving and clearly edited to discredit president travel but will it be enough to impact the president s chances of reelection of course only time will tell but with a 50 percent Approval Rating for the initial stages of a crisis and an overall increase in Approval Ratings id say its likely will be seen more of these ads coming from the democrats steve yeah absolutely natasha thank you very much thank you. And joining us now to discuss this in so much more is investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust ben ben welcome my friend thanks for having me on steve. My pleasure so when you look at this spot and what these groups are putting out there you know if this is just such a poster child for whats wrong with the way the media is used to promote misleading information know when it comes to politics but as i said to natasha they have every right to do it under the law. Well they do have every right to do it and the reality is i think when we you look at whats happening right now there are an enormous number of eyeballs on news media and local news media more so than weve seen in many years right now people are hungry for information and when the ads pop up and all of a sudden youre on these in the commercials the question will be whether or not this is affective or not my suspicion is that its not effective because you have people in essentially 3 camps you have the people who are in the pro trump camp theyre going to support from no matter what you have the people who are the anti trump theyre going to be against him no matter what and then you have everybody else which is the majority of the people kind of in the middle of that who right now i dont think necessarily have an appetite for a lot of politicizing of this and i think most people will look at it and say im intereste