reporter: i can go home now. okay. they sent the right guy because i would have been walking through the vault like i just want to touch it! they would have had to put me out of there. that was nbc s richard lui reporting. incredible. it is the top of the hour. it is good to be with you tonight. people across the country are venturing out as states reopen and companies loosen restrictions, but are we ready to unmask? as if we don t have enough to deal with, some members of congress are now saying we might have a ufo problem. we ll explain. the royal family speaking out about that infamous bbc interview with princess diana. her sons say it contributed to her death and to decades of trauma for them. also, forecasters are projecting a record-breaking hurricane season and we will graduate from this covid year with some words of wisdom from commencement day. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. welcome to the week. you know, every
tonight. people across the country are venturing out as states reopen and companies loosen le restrictions, but are we ready to unmask? en as if we don t have enough to deal with, some members of congress are now saying we might have a ufo problem. we ll explain.eawe the royal family speaking out about that infamous bbc th interview with princess diana. her sons say it contributed to her death and to decades of an trauma for them. also, forecasters are projecting a record-breaking hurricane season and we will graduate from this covid year an with some words of wisdom from commencement day. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson.rs welcome to the week. you know, every week we see more signs that america might just enjoy a summer without covid.am fingers tightly crossed. this morning california s great america theme park opened to visitors for the first time in more than a year. california outlined plans for a full reopening on june 15th, a
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the spring and i think we all saw that was the worst but of course we re now in a much graver situation. but i still think the themes of. journalism. people believe and how people know what to believe still is relevant as they were when i wrote. i mean i m right in the title of the book is the issue of fake news especially especially important right now obviously with the i don t know how you would measure the level of. scientific dissonance going on here in britain and around the world against big pharma vaccines and so on. well i think journalists are very conscious that maybe for the 1st time in their lives what they write could be the difference between life and death so i think there s a a gravity to the awareness of what journalism is and i think on the public side there is a growing awareness i would say frightened us of what happens when you live in a society of information chaos so when you don t know whether something happened or didn t happen whether something is t
there s a a gravity to the way and us of what journalism is and i think on the public side there is a growing awareness i would say frightened us of what happens when you live in a society of information chaos so when you don t know whether something happened or didn t happen whether something is to be believed or not it doesn t take long for elements of society to break down and the issue money and journalism runs like a thread throughout the book you say that when it comes to coronavirus reporting the news rooms they didn t fire their health and science reporters for budget constraints are obviously doing meth. yeah and we know one of the responses to the economic crisis of news was to hollow out newsrooms and that s an understandable response because you ve got shareholders or whatever. but in the end that meant that some newsrooms when the crisis struck didn t have people who were knowledgeable and who could write with all sorts and read assume pick up on that and i think