doom and gloom, let s make sure the news coverage acknowledges when things go right. with me in new york catherine rampell and cnn s oliver darcy. welcome to you both. we talked a lot about bad news bias and i think this is one of those examples. when the website actually works, not much attention, everybody kind of just moves on. if it had crashed, oliver, can you imagine we would be in wall to wall coverage. there is a negativity bias when it comes to the press. we are always focused on what did not work, what s going on wrong and that s not to say we shouldn t focus on those things, but it s important when something does go right, when covid cases are down, things are on the upswing we reflect that and give people an accurate portrayal of what s going on in the country. a lot of this relates to the economy. do the doom and gloom perceptions, do they match reality? it s interesting. if you look at the consumer
coverage. we should be wall-to-wall. you shouldn t even be able to find any place where we aren t seeing this today because this affects all of america. this is about safety and security as you were just talking about. you think about how young officer rivera was. he was just a baby when the planes hit the twin towers on 9/11. he was 1-year-old at the time. at 22 to say i want to be a police officer in new york city and particularly where he was shot in harlem. that takes such bravery and such nobility and maturity and you are right, this should be wall-to-wall coverage as far as honoring these officers. not just in new york, harris, in ferguson, missouri, or washed washington, d.c. and chicago. cops are being targeted by being vilified by those in the media. mostly peaceful riots. we are reaping what we sewed
laid out the gravity of the situation to the ap like this. picture trying to sleep on a bare mattress, where it is so called that you can see your own breath. imagine is temperatures drop below freezing, you re to learn have nothing to wear flip-flops. people are burning sheep manure and their own close to stave off hypothermia at night. they wake up and have nothing to eat. the camps are horribly overcrowded. as you can imagine, covid-19 is spreading like wildfire. these people have been forgotten. when was the last time their plight was on the front page of the new york times or the washington post or headlines around the world? media outlets run wall-to-wall coverage of the chemical attack in 2017. the images were everywhere. you couldn t escape them. rightfully so. but now, now when millions of innocent zillion s are dangerously close to freezing and starting today. we see nothing. why is it that american journalist only care about syrians when syrian gas and
throughout the network for the rest of the day. liberal media keeping off their home page. get serious here. they didn t use the suspect s picture and made no mention of his enormous rap sheet. as humans, how can they ignore that part of the story all in furtherance of this perverse, woke agenda? joe: todd, it are replay of the wakasha christmas parade. a suspect with a rap sheet a mile long senselessly murdering a young woman with her life ahead of her. wakasha was more than one person, it was grandmothers and grandchildren. imagine wisconsin or this horrific murder in california, it would be wall to wall to wall coverage. it seems the suspect doesn t match up with certain political
hold ourselves accountable as journalists, how you talk about this is literally affecting people s lives in dangerous situations. it s exhausting to have to remind people that our lives matter as well. globally the diaspora s lives matter as well. malcolm, i want to ask you. i think it s important for our viewers to understand, i understand the importance of ukraine, and why it s getting so much attention. i want our viewers to understand. there have been six coups in five african countries within the past 18 months, and that does not get wall-to-wall coverage. that is not show u.s. support. why the disparity. you re in a unique position to explain that to us, i think. it s simple. it s sub saharan africa. the news media tends to leave the information activities to the sort of global linguistic bubble they blockage in. most of the coups were in, and