Byst it was founded in 1969 rita irvine. We used a great combination of citizen activism to create a healthy skepticism toward the media. Host which type of media . Guest all media. These days we are expanding in other areas as well. Host who funds your organization . People who fund a lot of politically oriented charities. A great combination of individual donors of all dollar level. Do you findny times inaccuracies in conservative media . Guest we dont as much go after conservative media because theres a lot of people already doing that as they should. Inaccuracies anywhere should be exposed. We go after the ankle that isnt caught by other folks. Your process for investigating inaccuracies . Guest we look at the areas in which we think there is greatest opportunity to educate people. If it is someone speaking in an echo chamber that is less exciting than going after inaccurate media to an audience that could be persuaded. Rather than going after cnn or msnbc which people would probably expect to be centerleft , rather than going after fox largely byis watched conservatives, i think its important to go after now this and buzz feet. People subscribe on facebook because of upbeat videos. Then they started putting out incredibly slanted content to an audience that wasnt even suspecting it and many of their viewers are younger. They signed up for puppy videos. Didnt even have Strong Political leanings. Now they get fat content thats host whataccurate have you allegedly exposed in recent weeks . Guest our organization is launching tomorrow night with our 50th anniversary gala. We are going to bring back the history of Investigative Journalism that our organization has. We will go after online media targets as well as some of the traditional Mainstream Media target. Host do you believe reasonably there is fake news . Guest of course there is fake news. Thats the greatest threat to real journalism. People try to make the case that donald trump or anybody else attacking journalism as a threat to our democracy. Fake news is the greatest threat to our democracy because its a threat to real journalism. When its not called out people dont know to trust. I think its immature to call everything fake news when you dont like what theyre saying. Host David Lenhart wrote this about media bias. Yes its real. Most mainstream journalists do lean left. The local reporters and washington reporters are usually professional have to keep these views from affecting their coverage. Instead they are more likely to suffer from both side is him. Even when both sides story isnt the most accurate one. The coverage of Hillary Clintons emails certainly did suffer from this bias. Guest it certainly did. The if that is something that had happened with the republican we never would have heard the end of it. Cnn made a big deal of donald trump pouring too much fish food in a koi pond. Again and again the media treats stories dramatically different from one side than they do the other. I appreciate when they acknowledge there is some bias. Defines hard for them to what centerleft bias when so many of them live in a neck of chamber. Its hard for them to identify it. Host we want to hear your thoughts on this as well. Democrats 202 7488000. Republicans 202 7488001. Independents 202 7488002. Conservative male bias is real, too. Fox news and talk radio are huge influential parts of the media. Readers with misleading or outright false information like her for some conspiracy theories. Much of the media tries hard to and stories accurately correct itself when it airs. Host i think we are an environment where since the media augments audience is already so fragmented. Since print and cliques are down these folks are forced on all ends to go after the audience they are seeking to appease and create content thats going to be interesting to that audience whether or not they know its journalistically true. I think its a bigger issue to the left on the right because most of the media is dominated i the left rather than the right. Theyve been chasing endlessly for years the trump bump where theres a fervent audience of folks who want to read antitrump stories about trump is going to be impeached and this is going to happen. They write these stories even though they know they are not accurate because thats whats going to sell. Host how do you fix that . Guest you expose it relentlessly again and again and again. Not in facts and studies which are powerful but also with Investigative Journalism to show these people privately with private conversations of why they are creating stories that they are creating. Once they have used Investigative Journalism to get peoples attention thats when studies showing the facts and statistics related to media bias can be brought in. Host you served as head of development for project veritas. Will you have concealed cameras for accuracy in media . Guest we are going to be using Investigative Journalism to expose media bias in bringing the truth to the american people. Host terry in woodbridge. Republican. Host terry in woodbridge. Republican. Guest good morning. My concern is the way our country is going and i do believe in the free press. Officesident has been an this is when i have really been paying attention because this is when i retired. Wouldnt it be more accurate because you set a lot of people go on the internet and get their news and everything. But you would have to agree with me that more Senior Citizen vote in any other population. On social us are security checks and stuff and we cant afford the internet and some of us like me dont even believe in it. I wont even touch it because its too harmful to our country i believe. If wet it be effective showed the public exactly how they are and create a law about false media . I know we have to have free press but if they can prove that what they are saying is false and they wont retract the right to shouldnt there be a lot protect the citizens from getting misinformation when they are standing on the floor of capitol hill. Guest i dont want to see a law specifically saying your news is false and now we are going to have legal ramifications from it. Thats a terrible slippery slope. We already have laws in place for libel and slander and defamation of character. To be not only going exposing content from online news sources. Im simply making the case that thats a particularly dangerous area where no one is currently active. Lou, independent. Ive been trying to call cspan so much that i dont even know where to start you im 87 years old and my first vote was for Dwight Eisenhower and i have almost a photographic memory so i know whats been going on for the last 60 years. And my question will first of all i want to ask greta and cspan what happened when brian lamb used to have christopher somebody sitting on each side. I guess its because the newspapers are gone now. Host when we would have people of different opinions sitting across from each other . We try to do that. People are not always game for that anymore. We like that format as well. Caller its just a different world. Being 87 world constantly changes and changes. I dont know what to say. Im a donald trump supported. Poor man canis stand it. Hes trying so hard to be president ial and run the country. Guest you brought up a great point when you brought up Dwight Eisenhower. In his farewell address, everyone remembers his warning about the militaryindustrial complex. A lot of people overlook the warning he gave about the rise of a dangerous powerful technological elite who could hijack our republic and control our elections without us even realizing it. Thats what we are facing with google and facebook and the tremendous influence they have over our lives. Facebook knows your political leanings so they can tell people to go vote only if they have the political leanings they want to advance. Eisenhower was ahead of his time to recognize it and warned us about it. Host do you think its ok for the president of the United States to tweet false news . Guest i dont think its ok for anybody to tweet false news. Host david, republican. Caller i was a truck driver for 30 years and theres a lot of bias against Truck Drivers same with the airliners. Back in 1988 they had a really bad accident where a drunk truck driver went across the median and hit a bus headon and they kept saying that. I got home that night and saw the newspaper says drunk truck driver hits bus headon. Looked at the picture and it was a guy in a pickup truck. But a lot of people got mad at Truck Drivers over that. People driving 18 wheelers. Guest the media has an incredibly powerful influence and its for that reason they have a response delete to get stories right. We would never expect news getly a news outlet to 100 of stories right. What we are seeing as there are news outlets who are knowingly publishing false information merely because it will sell to their audience. Thats wrong. Lisa on twitter once to ask about the abc epstein coverage story. Guest we never know whats going on behind closed doors in a newsroom. Weconfirms the suspicions have that powerful people have a greater influence over the media behind closed doors than the rest of us do. How can journalism be speaking truth to power when they are being influenced by those powerful people. Thats terrifying and thats a problem. Host david in grand rapids. Independent. We have a News Organization like fox news that refuses to report whole news. They refused to tell the truth in the sense that they always on what is true. Fox news is really good at that. Issue lately with the other News Organizations is why does everything seem to be breaking news. 24 hours a day. Breaking news its whats happening right now. Withss i would like to end we know when its fake news when whats happening in the world doesnt match whats happening with the news that we are getting. Thats the measuring stick is real life. We know whats really happening. I also have to say dont get your news from the internet. Enqueue. Guest in a 24hour news cycle think desperately have to they created for themselves when they decided to publish news 24 7. Host in pennsylvania. Democratic caller. Areer my family and i astonished by the number and the range of the lies told by this president. We cannot understand why the media doesnt call him out, why we dont have Fact Checking daily especially after his rallies. We would like to see npr or cspan, pbs, someone have a regular Fact Checking program to point out the lies that are being told by the president. To fact you ever go check. Org or political at . Caller i would like to see it broadcast out. There should be a program mandatory the day after each of his rallies with Fact Checking. Guest mandatory for whom . Color coat by the free press pete mandatory is the wrong word ok. Caller by the free press. Mandatory is the wrong word ok. That wouldnt you agree nbc, cnn, the New York Times call out trump on a daily basis . Caller the New York Times, the washington post, yes i hope so. Msnbc is seen as biased. I may agree with what they put out treat thats a good point. They do put on both sides. Guest all right. Host john in orlando, florida. Republican. Guest all right. Caller i listen to these people talking about the president s lies. Its despicable to think that they are so biased against this president and the lies that are being told as far as ive been following this since he was elected. The liberal media is the most despicable lying propaganda organizations ive ever seen. Its disrespectful to this country. President , talking about spin. Nobody spends more than the liberal media. Its dangerous and when the president calls them out and he defends himself from all the attacks youve got the liberal him as thats not president ial. Let me tell you something. Im a regular joe. If some but he called me and my family out the way the liberal left and the cnn and the rest of the News Networks are doing, i would defend myself any which way i could. Hes doing the best he can to defend himself from all these false accusations. Its sickening to me. Glad toreat point and hear from a florida caller. I would say of course anybody in a position where they are being called out and treated that way that trump has been treated by the media on a daily basis, of course they are going to get morally outraged. And regardless of what a candidate you should always be against seeing in accurate treatment, biased media towards any candidate because if it can happen to somebody that you are opposed to it could just as easily happen to a candidate that you like from other media outlets. We shouldnt allow ourselves to be caught in this tribal warfare where they are going after our guy. We should all be for accurate honest mainstream journalism. Will you useiteria to determine that something is fake or accurate . Most of the time its pretty darn simple. One of the most famous examples of now this being inaccurate is when they reported that trump was alive after they pointed out trump pointed out that clinton signed nafta. Many of us live through. Clinton signed nafta. Anybody with access to a history book called out now this to this but they still refused to correct the record. That goes to the point that media is going to make mistakes. Thats fine. When you have a blatant falsehood and you are called out even by leftwing media, youve got to collect correct the record. Host were they talking about a Hillary Clinton . Guest bill clinton. Its terrifying. Host in ohio. Go ahead. Caller i am very concerned that we have a certain ethnic interest in this country who wants to shape the media only in their direction and i have a very problem with that as a Christian Person that we have a dominance in this country of certain people in new york city shading the media constantly in their directions. We as White Christians do not get our voice heard in this media. Its always about what the new york jewish establishment wants. Host we are going to skip that. Ancy democratic caller. Caller thank you for shaping my call. When im calling about, that guy from michigan was right on fact. Lets start with kellyanne conway. Used the term alternative facts which just about knocked him off his chair. Alternative facts. And that what is Mainstream Media . Let me finish, maam. News on the cable i have then your socalled leftwing stations. Guest i would define Mainstream Media as those outlets that get the most views. The New York Times, the washington post. I think those are the most definitions of Mainstream Media simply because they have the largest audience. Theoint as well is that online news outlets like now this and buzz feet are incredibly dangerous because they are primarily viewed by young people and its much easier to change the minds of an impressionable and 18yearold than to change the mind of a 48yearold so that makes them a much greater threat in my eyes. Theres no denying that we should call out fake news when it happens but im most concerned when its going after easily impressionable young people. Caller . At about daily think daily caller is more Opinion Pieces so i dont think its as likely to persuade in ae who are openminded variety of topics and influence them in the manner that now this is. People going to daily caller are genuinely generally going to be centerright looking for Opinion Pieces. People following buzz feed on facebook are doing so why theres a list of 14 reasons why d. C. Is the greatest city in america, you want leave number seven. Number seven. Ve host what about alternative facts . Guest take you live now to the u. S. Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers holding a briefing on the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, known as daca. Over the future and fate of daca. And whether the Supreme Court will allow daca to stand. All of us today stand in solidarity and in support of our dreamers and our daca recipients. They are as american as any single one of us. And despite the president s attempts to slander them, to speak ill about who