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Polls have opened in ivory coast following an Election Campaign thats been marred by violence and a boycott by the opposition for candidates of putting their names or for the presidency include new combin or some more time or. The number of early and malin votes in the u. S. State of texas has now surpassed the total number of votes cast there during the 2016 election or the 9000000 texans of cast early votes it is the 2nd state to break its voting record before election day thousands of protesters have gathered in the polish capital warsaw to continue rallying against a near total ban on abortions they want the government to overturn a court ruling which further restricts the law. Those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera right after the listening post to stay with us its one of the most consequential elections in u. S. 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Elections are into the homestretch and the media are a key issue for many voters thats what were focusing on this week november 3rd is decision day Donald Trumps fake news narrative is about to be put to be often we went through the greatest which in political history thats down with President Donald Trump the gospel of trump 247 the marriage of convenience that is the president s relationship with the Christian Broadcasting Network conservatives like to accuse social media platforms of suppressing their voices in favor of liberal ones the data says otherwise and the art of the impersonator so good so good a step by step guide on how to sound president ial. There are just days to go now until the us president ial election and the role of the news media is among the election issues donald trump wouldnt have it any other way hes been all in on the fake news narrative trying to make the coverage of the story rather than his handling of covert 19 which is nobodys idea of a success trumps victory back in 2016 forced. A reckoning upon the us news media a lot of his fake news talk is baseless yet it clearly hits home with americans who have lost faith in their 4th estate much of the corporate u. S. News industry whose incessant coverage helped fuel trumps rise has since tried to repair their reputations while preserving their profits that approach has paid dividends on both counts but they have not emerged from this fight on skates this election is a de facto referendum on the Trump Presidency many journalists could well see it as a referendum on themselves our starting point this week the 2020 us president ial election. It is too soon to write Donald Trumps political obituary by at least a few days perhaps more. But lest we forget on the eve of the election. And with the cage match between trump and us journalists heading for a possible conclusion were going to turn now to my interview with the 1st character president that no american president has ever relied on the media to not get into the writings. Ever depended on it the way trump. Has won the larger over the comical landscape and the drop the corporate complicity on the part of u. S. News outlets has never been great what the media did at the beginning because it is a source of entertainment in the United States it rolled out the red carpet for donald trump and he never stopped voting on it he never stopped walking down that carpet it was grotesque it was a free advertisement and he knew how to use the news media played dr frankenstein to Donald Trumps monster they created him and then he got out of control and now theyre in the process of trying to destroy him and i believe will be effective in doing that at least with regard to his reelection at. Trial to 2004. Donald trump was just a celebrity millionaire a coproducing machine in the journalistic like that of new york city im saying a lot of. Women was whether then he fronted the apprentice the decade he spent as a reality t. V. Host honed his media game. By 2015 when trump ran for president the n. B. C. Executive who oversaw the apprentice was in charge of c. N. N. And jeff zucker like other news exacts craved the ratings trump could provide. According to media quite a company the tracks media American News outlets give to trump billions of dollars in free advertising disguised as news comes hours and hours of air time helping him get the nomination well i just think its an interesting question by the time trump took the white house he had turned on his creators in the media walk off after calling everybody from c. N. N. To the New York Times fake news if they dared to point out the facts when the president was like you are the enemy of the media rarely talks about a president is lying no the president isnt royalty in the United States but they treat them like royalty and donald trump is not the 1st president to lie example george w. Bush about going into iraq and using 911. 00 as a pretext which iraq had nothing to do with record decide on any given day to provide a biological or chemical weapon to a terrorist group his administration was not called out in that way. But after a time with President Trump they started to label things just as they should they started to label then as lies is initially a shock to the system but i think theres a huge kind of demand for it your band to try one upmanship from the audience if you watch c. N. N. Its just 247 a liar because i think that is what is driving right now we had an avalanche of law. For President Trump its a kind of a trap that true that is what everyone into around we have the vaccines we have everything you will occasionally tell ridiculous lies for the media to call them a liar and a level of lying unseen before and forces supporters to choose between him and media that ultimately its a net negative for every. News outlets critical of donald trump themselves as protectors of the troops dedicated to responsible journalism and their critics offer a one word response rush back to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what you want with in the 2 years it took former f. B. I. Director Robert Muller to investigate an alleged conspiracy between the Trump Campaign and the crime of those news outlets kept that story through a series of official leaks stay with us i will consider retiring attorney an official conspiracy theorist predicting a watergate scale downfall of the present one reality and the official report feel to meet those expectations it played right into the trump fake news narrative the only solution was committed by the democrats the Fake News Media had their operatives journalistic reputations took a pounding now there were a lot of things the news media reported that were false because they had this vacuum they had to fill guess whats going to happen youre going to speculate we actually correcting a story that we have been reporting throughout the day today and lets be clear the liberal media was very prone to believing the worst possible things about donald trump so when when youre prone to believing it and it fits with your narrative and its good for ratings whos going to start one of the real factors in the media because right now if you turn from advertising this model toward subscription big newspapers and broadcasters were largely reliant on advertising now the most important force is a news. I relied on subscriptions which is less about trying to please every Single Person who could possibly buy a battery and more about finding your slice of super fans who want to buy your identify with your brand and so there is a sort of broad mercial pressure toward a more part of. That subscription model that exacerbates the polarization the plagues News Coverage in the us as liberal media have grown less objective and more partisan on the other side fox news has doubled down on its support for president not the fox has satisfied the president has taken parting shots at the network and is steered his base to hyper partisan outlets like one American News newsmax the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Washington Times too Many Americans live in one news bubble or the other seldom venturing outside for a look at the thing the 2 media spheres have in common and one of the few points that a liberal like amy goodman and a conservative like john ziegler can agree on is the corporate profit driven imperative that both bubbles are built there is absolutely no question that commercialism drives almost all of us into the prism through which every news media outlet sees everything that happens it is the worst kept secret in all the media that conservative outlets do much better when a liberal is in office and liberal news Media Outlets do much better when i conservative or republican it is in office and trump it clearly proves that to start pulling degree you know he has essentially a saved m s n b c and c. N. N. And he is kept in a liberal internet outlets and business the media is addicted to trump the media our large multinational corporations their main mode. That is the track im centive where i dont. Have to ask for their gratitude by corporations that profit from war we need independent media where were not practiced by the weapons manufacturers when we cover Climate Change were not prachi by the oil the cas the gas the Call Companies x. X. Apple recover health care and after what you buy the Insurance Industry but brought to people by the listeners the viewers the readers who are deeply committed to independent information. There were signs in 2017 after donald trump selection of a rebirth of american journalism the New York Times was among the clock its reporting record surges in subscriptions but consider this according to the Reuters Institute in that same year 2017 only 38 percent of americans said they trusted the news media that figure has actually fallen since 29. 00. That is as good a measure as any the President Trumps media bashing thats had an effect expected to continue right through to election day and probably. Has tried really hard with the media you basically rather run against the New York Times and c. N. N. Than he would against joe biden it hasnt really worked i mean i think the reality of these campaigns is that ultimately the president is going to be defined by what he did in office and this in this case it and later wrote a virus for us its really good that everything before and lets be clear about this doll job or a psalm how rhythm is actually it would be the most dramatic repudiation of the news media in American History i dont see that happening well i know that there are a lot of americans who are voting for donald trump evolving to stick it to the new. Conservative commentators and politicians including the president have long complained that the media are. Thats them social media platforms included that was their argument earlier in the campaign when twitter and facebook deleted several high profile right wing accounts and fact checked some of Donald Trumps own tweets politico and its chief tech correspondent mark scott took a deep data dive into that theory that social Media Companies are institutionally biased against the right and the findings are worth examining he joins me now mr scott working with the london based institute for Strategic Dialogue you examined millions of social media posts and then concluded that what these conservative voices have been saying is simply not factual so walk us through it so you are a muslim period between the end of august and september with an outside group to look at about 2000000 social media posts across 5 social networks can be about 500000 individual users who are asked to specific topics that are very closely linked to the us election blacklight matter and voter fraud and over those 2 topics and i can only speak to those topics versus broader discussion social media it was categorically false that there was a certain bias consent because of divorces period because of much as matter right leaning and commentators and socially as. Did the left leaning and traditionally alice by about a factor of 10 in terms of actual content being shared and then you look at voter fraud narratives as well again it was very stark that conservative voices and their content was shed but mostly double that to liberal and tradition the so what do these conservative commentators base their allegations on is it purely anecdotal its that the clinton to the conservatives in the us are playing a raft trying to force social Media Companies to take a more lax to you on some of the candidates include out there and michael not the right is putting out more or. Misinformation or potential for swords than the left is not by the left is doing it its just that the right has been more successful of weaponized not content to allow it to a greater degree and with less than a week to go before the us election this is all about trying to frame the discussion around big tech and the deep state animating the year is out to get the republicans and i didnt start this reporting project with the idea of proving that there was a conservative norm liason social media we just wanted to see what kind of discussions were going on but within a few weeks ago became quite clear that overwhelmingly the conservative voices were out doing the the left and traditional media and when you have 2000000 socially persons quite difficult to go against that mark scott thanks for speaking with us here in the listening post of. As we mentioned in our previous piece there are a select few broadcast networks that are in President Trumps good books fox news is one of them but the president also has time for the Christian Broadcasting Network c. B. S. Since trump landed in office c b n has landed exclusive interviews with the president and his officials and his advisors its a relationship built on common interests evangelicals especially white evangelicals will form a big part in the republican partys core vote on tuesday and are among trumps most stubborn supporters he needs to keep them onside c. D. N. Provides the perfect go between and c. B. S. Executives have a religious vision for the United States that relies on a president willing to champion their beliefs even if he himself is not exactly pious the listening posts flow phillips now on donald trump and c. B. S. A political match made in heaven. Good afternoon everyone thanks for coming out to our 1st official briefing here in the brady room january 23rd 27000 the 1st White House Press conference of the trumpet ministration question number one. How could you. The 2nd question jennifer wish. Jennifer wish and not a name from c. N. N. Know c. B. S. She c b s the Christian Broadcasting Network we were watching that 1st press conference in the newsroom here theres a cheer that went when he called on the c. B. And corresponding so jenny what was that like youre in the Briefing Room and oh by the way sorry Associated Press jenny from the b block has a question how did that go well its remarkable david and that was a signature moment for us because we never get called on. Weve been in the white house room for. Or 1st 1st time was 980 so its been a while it legitimates c. D. N. As a news outlet it recognizes them until Something Else to trump is basically saying i see you none of those other people sees you im going to overturn the system that says i have to call on c. N. N. I have to call on c. B. S. I have to call the New York Times so im going to call on c. B. S. And because were part of this antiestablishment. Radicals overthrowing the system. Compelled to giants like c. N. N. The m s n b c and fox news c. B. S. News division is small scale but it plays a very specific strategic role shaping the political interests and voting behavior of many evangelical am