Our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner to edited the book president ial misconduct which is the kickoff for our discussion tonight is a visiting scholar in history at George Washington university. Having spent most of his career teaching at princeton, he is the founding director of the history news service. His most recent book is being a historian being a historian and he hasory edited and written numerous books including the one we are featuring tonight. He also was one of the creators of the National History center. Editorinchief of the quarterly review. Let me tell you how i know jackson. So, i was a graduate student at yale and people would always say there is this great historian, hes going to be so great, you are a few years older. He was one of the historians who proceeded to define a field which is basically how to think about culture in a way that spoke to many different parts of our political life. That might not be how the describes himself, but tha
the way. the officers approached the 19-year-old suspect, shot them through the door, and of the window, hitting the one officer in the leg, another in the head, and a third of the trust. the suspect was then killed after they returned fire. all three s.w.a.t. officers are said to be in stable condition at this point. the crime crisis has already taken its toll on the city of philadelphia and the young people who live there, philia seeing a surge of crime over the past year with significant spikes in robberies, and break-ins. just days ago a shooting claiming the life of 13-year-old jeremiah wilcox, police were told that that eighth-grader was hanging out with friends outside his middle school when he was shot multiple times in the head and face. emily, you have worked around to the of crime, law, and in jails, and prisons. we have a system right now that wants to put the jails and prisons on notice that it is easier to get out there is a revolving door in the d s as office a
Spilling of blood for the. International live from moscow would mean a day or two day welcome to the program as the starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul to its residents is becoming painfully clear. Went to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. Weaning isnt always pretty. Is testament to that its being that almost half a year since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness that of these than isis but no one mentioned the smell five months on mosul still stinks of death the stench of decaying and decayed bodies everywhere permeates the old city its nowhere near as strong as it was back during the summer for obvious reasons but there are still countless bodies buried under all this rubble and no one knows how long it will take to get to all of them. They are everywhere the corpses of isis fighters buried under the wreckage together with civilians woman children and exploded bombs shells rockets. There are still pe
Anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to lionel first in new york im not going to list all of the mistakes the Mainstream Media has made over the last few months because that would take up the entire program and then some suffice to say lionel i think its quite evident that the New York Times the Washington Post c. N. N. M. S. M. The m s n b c and other news organizations theyre making mistakes because they have a blind hatred for donald trump their blind hatred is throwing journalistic practices and principles out the window and this is damaging the information sphere in the United States and i would say the political process as well go ahead lionel. I would venture to say is an admixture of trump derangement syndrome in full bloom its negligence its malfeasance and also is that amazing isnt it amazing in shocking perhaps that none of these mistakes every new are to the benefit of trump already body else or they never deal with Hillary Clinton or those of the socalled
And welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle trust in the Mainstream Media is an all time low but no one should be surprised in the media has itself to blame for this sad state of affairs is a selfinflicted wound and actually a conscious Business Model the media no longer has an interest in reporting the news media today propagates ideology. Crosstalk in the state of the media im joined by my guest Eric Alterman in new york he is a sunni distinguished professor of english and journalism at Brooklyn College as well as the liberal media columnist for the nation. And also in new york we have lionel he is a legal analyst and a news decoder at lionel media dot com and in plymouth we crossed to patrick kennings and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty First Century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to lionel first in new york im n