media recover yes the short answer is no no in the short term anyway i think bottom line is partisanship is dish roiling if it hasn t already destroyed journalism because journalism must be nonpartisan or else sees it ceases to be journalism the become something else and we ve got a whole lot of something else right now in american media. bob perry has you know i m the founder of our website consorting news in the last piece that he wrote before he died exactly 3 months 3 years ago december he wrote about this dying journalism and because of the partisanship taking it over and the basics of journalism of facts. being nutro of being impartial was going by the wayside he defied it the arjun s of this with the in the reagan administration with the rise of right wing talk radio but then he came to see that especially during the. obama administration and it really took off going to trumpet and station that the democrats were doing the same if not worse than what the right wing had
journalism the become something else and we ve got a whole lot of something else right now in american media. bob perry the founder of our website consorting news in the last piece that he wrote before he died exactly 3 months 3 years ago december so he wrote about this dying journalism and because of the partisanship taking it over and the basics of journalism of facts of being neutral of being impartial was going by the wayside he defied it the arjun s of this with the in the reagan administration with the rise of right wing talk radio but then he came to see that especially during the obama administration and it really took off going to trump administration that the democrats were doing the same if not worse than what the right wing had done and when i say democrats i don t i don t call them left i think the democrats a center right but in that nonetheless they re certainly the other party and both sides are using and other democrats because as much or democratic t.v. . pa
as n.b.c. and c.n.n. particularly or why didn t they say we have to apologize to our viewers in fact that there is these were this is a real story and we need to cover it but they can t even do that i mean what i worry now is that there probably u 2 is going through and deleting all of those videos because they re so ashamed of themselves they should be but they re not go ahead well as you don t correctly. journalism and dad the media as we brought it existed although it never existed as we like to believe it existed even back to cronkite to the 3 network newscasts it would never down the middle if you look back and the people certainly had bias if you look back but it s bad it s bad but that you don t instead of admitting it and you re alluded to that it s you know going back to the gentleman who unfortunately passed that it goes back to the reagan administration right wing talk radio but that. talk radio host of which i won and won one back then never sure we would count yo
stay with us. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i m peter lavelle exhibit the smoking gun we know now without a doubt the media ran interference for the biting campaign before the election the 100 by the story was not was not russian misinformation we were lied to again where is the accountability. to discuss this and more i m joined by ming is david freiheit in montreal he s a litigator turned you tube or who provides legal breakdowns of current events in new york we have seat belts for and he is host of in the press at r.t. america and in sydney we cross to joe lauria he s the editor in chief of consortium news dot com her and tell me crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciate joe let me go to you in sydney and 1st of all thank you for staying up 2 o clock in the morning for this program and very much appreciate it we all appreciate it jerks job where is the state of journalism that we know that the
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