media here in the united kingdom that really have not been part of the culture of broadcastjournalism. certainly in my experience, journalism generally comes from the left of centre. and you. despite the fact the uk press, for example, has many more newspapers that skew to the right than to the left? well. but i think it s important to remember that we are talking about broadcast here, that i think the distinction between itv or itn, sky and bbc, is very much of a certain viewpoint, whereas we saw an opportunity to broaden out that conversation, to have conversations that really are, if you like, a centre right perspective, but also including viewpoints from the left. we have nearly got as many labour mps coming on gb news now as we have conservative mps, and that is because we want this to be a town hall where people can come and actually have those conversations. you clearly are being regulated
it s about debating subjects and topics, and not all the opinion that was done on sky news australia was controversial. in fact, one of the first things we invested in was opinion around politics and proper coverage for the first time of australian politics on television. and that meant things like rolling news conferences, having panel debates, shows. and in fact, the first panel debate show on sky news australia was hosted by the former prime minister of australia, tony abbott, and the current prime minister of australia, anthony albanese. so, really, it s notjust about exploring issues for the sake of being controversial, it s about actually having a proper conversation. so you were looking for a point of difference for sky news australia. you re definitely looking for a point of difference for gb news, up against sky news, bbc news and talktv now. andrew neil has subsequently said of his involvement, his mistake was putting his name on the tin without understanding what would be in
people trying to do the same thing that the russians did in 2016. and joining me now is the executive editor of the washington post, martin baron, and the executor editor of the new york times, dean baquet. dean, let me start with this. this is what your chief white house correspondent peter baker wrote very recently. there are days in washington lately when it feels like the truth itself is on trial. well, help us make sense of that. i mean, it s true. of course, it s ridiculous to say that truth isn t truth. of course, that s a ridiculous construct. i mean, our job, and it s a hard job, but our job and i think our newsrooms have been sort of rebuilt to do this, is to a very aggressively sort out fact from fiction. and to very aggressively work to make sure that people trust us and understand that that s our job. i mean, marty has a very extensive fact checking
kate. it s not as if the campaign he ran was a strict ad herniate to the truth. the washington post has a fact-checking operation there and they found that two-thirds of the 90-plus things that donald trump said that they fact-checked from the campaign were 100% totally false. and yet, you look at exit polling after the election, more people thought donald trump was honest and trustworthy than hillary clinton. right, but i don t know what you do with that, but it s not new. it s one thing to distrust the media, right? but it s another thing for the president of the united states to seemingly distrust his intelligence community. i mean, that s a completely different thing. and what we have seen time and time again in this first 102 days is donald trump says things that are either directly contradictory to or not on message with things that his defense secretary, the department of homeland security, the secretary of state, the u.n. ambassador are saying. and then his aide, se
self-named clint: award for advancing woman in peace. tonight she will be down giving a speech at the university of miami, where donna shalala one of her close friends is president. super pac, priorities usa will hold a first organizing meeting for clinton 2016. this super pac was created by first-term obama white house staffers to get him reelected into 2012. it is transformed into a fund-raising operation for clinton. she never discouraged her supporters from building what is expected to be a 2 billion-dollar campaign organization. there are places like, ready for hillary, the super pac we just mentioned, priorities usa. another super pac called american bridge, which has its own fact-checking operation, called, correct the record, and even emily s list is staffed by all kinds of clinton insiders. $2 billion estimated the campaign machine. a lot of democrats assumed vice president joe biden wouldn t run if clinton does. inside remembers shooting that