By. Now all right ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard and as i promised this this gentleman that were going to be talking to for the for the entire show today ive known him for lots and lots and lots of years and i got to tell you off camera he is as wonderful even more so wonderful than you would imagine by seeing and hearing him talk on camera hes lined up a litle media media and legal analysts very important he should serve sent through roll lynell welcome aboard my friend thank you sir thank you thank you thank you and heres to be able to do it on the fly which we understand by virtue of our 10 year in terrestrial conventional talk radio where something broke down all the cup. Absolutely absolutely and youre always had to improvise you always had a flight and the right to scripts and talk radio and i think thats thats really helped that i know its helped me and i know youve told me that its a big advantage for you its well so let me let me start thanks way if i may you were asleep youre getting and we talked about this the other day with if someone was asleep or in a time warp or time machine or. That woke up and you know they were they went to sleep or maybe the best way to put it is is a few months a few months they slept for a few months they were ill whatever they woke up and ate i now thrust into this world and lets focus on the media part of it obviously what are they seeing what kind of shock are they going through. Well right we had we had spoken about this the idea of somebody being in a time tunnel or some some type of a of a coma wrong name wrong term but maybe a time warp others a couple of months or a year from now 1st from the media point of view i think what they would do is they would look up and say hey wheres all the local new its gone where is the late night news where i dont see the news that we used to be and see what then the reason for that is a couple of reasons number one were seeing for the 1st time by virtue of this horrible event whos really good who is not were also going through and i know you get these ive received media emails every day about name the industry name the Company Layoffs are suspending our retirement you name it dividends because Something Like this is never happened when you have in that commercial Enterprise People who are not selling when commerce stops that is unable to pay the Commercial End of radio and media and t. V. So it all ceases so the 1st thing when this regroup when people retrench and get back theyre going to say we dont need this anymore this anymore or this anymore because one is too expensive but the public changed its taste and what were doing right now is were not going for fluff and glitz and glamour which is nice were giving people raw information which by the way steve a lot of people in kids today and folks this is their world so as long as your are centric youre going to succeed thats whats going to change oh yeah absolutely and i think its a shame whats whats happening to local news newspapers you know going under firing people laying people off cutbacks cutting salaries etc but lets focus on also the way. The obvious theres the obvious you tune in people are doing their shows from home people are doing their show as you know from from far from their basement or wherever you have hosts that are in studio or sitting far away from each other theres no more studio audience is at the late night shows and the at the shows that are on during the day like the view for instance but theres also theres also other fundamental differences in the in the way i think you know every citizen now. Is a potential contributor and has been giving their point of view giving their stories giving their fears giving their questions they become a part of the news presentation on so many outlets. Precisely citizen and civilian journalism even idea where im broadcasting now from just out the window is the comfort the u. S. N. S. Comfort and when the comfort docked you can imagine there was a tremendous throng of individuals and next to the conventional press where their press pass there were people with cell phones just taking a picture saying here i am and steve. I dont want to speak out of turn here but a lot of people that we know people who have been in the Television Business in particular and the news misses have thought that that presentation cannot possibly be done by a civilian by a citizen somebody whos never been in the trenches somebody whos not a who doesnt have a press pass somebody who didnt understand how this the works when their version of this showing perhaps a a a a an excitement to this event might be even Better Television than that before youre also finding out you know steve there was a great line attributed to roger ailes i hope it is but i love the line they ask when they do you think that journalist should get a license and he i believe or someone said you only need a license to cut hair so what were seeing right now is people who are actually in there doing what this is and by the way you 2 platforms social platforms alternative foreign media there is a bevy of cuffing the of news sources guess who guess who the beneficiary of this is the consumer because steve you and i have to be better you and i have to be able to compete you and i have to blow these people out of the water if its going to be its going to thin the herd so to speak so its actually beneficial to the consumer of news. But i and before we get to it to the future which you kind of address in your in your 1st answer i do want to focus on. Misinformation because with alternative news sources with these new news sources with social media with the average citizen being able to use their cell phone to take pictures which may be legitimate which may not be legitimate i mean there is so much mis and dis information out there especially as a relates to the virus and that makes it all the much worse. Great point 1st things i remember one day and not to mention names but anybody whos ever listened to. Any old age of talk radio that we knew on the weekend. Even today what are you going to hear is everything i did was a snake oil because theyre not all snake oil but this information like you cannot believe this information misinformation not information and then people sent oh what are you going to do buyer beware coffee at end door big deal all of a sudden steve i dont want to say the left or the right but there is a move to shut news down certain news what theyve done is theyve gone after privacy considerations intellectual property violations Steve Malzberg cant say that because thats copyrighted Steve Malzberg cant say that because that belonged to somebody else then we get to hate steve can say that because of hate and the next thing theyre going into is falsity steve for 25000. 00 and a new car tell me what descent from a should is tell me you who has been through every aspect there is tell me anything youve ever heard in any platform that did not disinformed this inform get it wrong i was in a radio show that we have the wrong lottery numbers out you know people said. That the reason youre here and what youre hearing right now is its not because they care about for example of this think dont give up do after fox news as we know because youre giving us a posy bad idea as you regarding the right were going to get that were going to get to that few minutes that but yeah but w. H. Y. Hes making everyone else just. That theyre just theyre just craving all the information they can get and you know what it really is up to the consumer to decipher and anybody purposely putting out false information to harm people that that could be a different story but well get to that again with your legal you put on your legal hat in a chair just a moment but the future like i said you address that a little bit in the in the Opening Statement that your mate but but how much change i mean do you really think and i dont know because it could this this goes beyond just media because into every aspect of our lives are we going to wear masks from how are we going to stay apart from people are we going to go back to ballgames are we going to could you know congregate with our friends so as it applies to media are we going to see people continue to do from home are we going to see people continue to do sitting apart from their partner because are we going to see shows without studio audience is Going Forward i mean is this going to be permanent yes yes yes yes yes and yes but theres going to be a change but this is a correction listen there always has been something cataclysmic catastrophic thats happened which can a traffic for the people who are supplanted people who are moved but lets talk about this for a moment the idea that social distancing there is going to be and i give it to my beloved wife its her line its she always as we say hash tag correction 2020 its a correction name of the media broadway more movies independent film right now were asking people we have political conventions the idea is the for the longest time we always had this idea of people contagious and get away from people and it never meant anything to us the culture that we ever did was start a call for you know if we were out was it. In a year from now if you want to go into this bubble suspended animation come back in a year the 1st thing youre going to say is why are people standing so far away i want to shake somebodys hand and they look to me like what are you kidding also Nascar Nascar going to be a part of our routine you know for i could go into some for the reasons as well but thats perhaps for the show but youre going to see people doing it because people are going to become so used to this theyre going to be asking why am i not wearing it what if the you know theres no corona or coke but its going to mutate so named a platform spectator sport ballroom dancing graduations staved were a social group why do they behave a solitary confinement because were isolated everything we do always with people so if you take that away everything we do. Every correction 2020 i think or your wife hit it right on the head right well i know stay where you are folks i hope we pick your appetite i want you to stay there because i never get to take a break in the combat but the main course more with our friend line of line all media and eat the press. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics Small Business im show business ill see you then. The world is driven by dream shaped by one person or those great. Things. We dare to ask. The. City on. How. When i dont mean if he says you know youve done something for them they dont know you but how much of the us i mean dont. You love the missing mommies when dont you think its time a Strong Enough to. Carry down. Some emotions some are. Very uncertain. Rock up on the baby had a fever of 38. 00 south korean 3 were hoping thats. Not at all. And welcome back to eat the press im steve multiorgan we are rejoined by line o. Line a media media and legal analyst you know you love them and you got them for the rest of the show so like not let me let me ask you brought up fox news you tweet that you touch you tease it a little bit subtly unintentionally that stuff no no no thats good thats good so let me tell you and lets discuss what theyre doing to fox news there is this organized effort now to claim that fox news has been presenting this information as we discussed in the last segment dangerously so to put peoples lives at risk theyre saying that most of their viewers a 65 and over and theyre sitting there and these poor dumb 65 year old over people cant think on their own and theyre getting all this in this information thats going to tell them for instance 74 journalists lined up professors i should say 74 professors have written a letter to Rupert Murdoch and his son. Over at lakeland over at fox and they said that fox is a danger to Public Health presenting misinformation on the coronavirus yeah who wires lytle on the left that are better predicting legal action former Clinton Administration official Michael Bromwich who represented the cabin or accuser christine place before and by the way Andrew Mccabe said it can lead to a legal bloodbath and you have that. The fairs gave sherman saying that theyre scared over there at fox news so. I mean i know why theyre doing this and i know that someones going to file this in court but what what what what is the what are the chances that they could actually harm or damage aside from the reputation of fox news the entity that is fox news. None the only chance they have to worry about it is perhaps sanctions being leveled against them for filing spurious claims look lets talk about what this is is there 1st issue is there a cause of action for a News Organization to give information which is negligent now i dont want to play around with what is is is mean and all that but a live for example has been defined in court by many many cases as a misrepresentation of fact with the intent to deceive now that by analogy would apply here if iraqs news makes a mistake says Something Like oh i dont know dr found who said from where im asked dont wear a mask go outside dont go outside every 3 minutes it changes now is that misleading misleading was it it wasnt intended to deceive no was it just an error or do think does stuff happen so they want to have they would have to go into a court and perhaps a jury and explain that fox news or anybody for that matter not only gave information out which was negligent but there was something that would do is a degree of recklessness now the law knows libel slander defamation that we understand but for the 1st time in a new organization if ox or or or m s n b c or anybody were to say this is the reason why we said it or better yet steve mall virg says in my opinion covert is the worst disease in the world or its nothing its your opinion we dont have to go and borrow from the libel and defamation rule because the man opined is that if somebody takes a listen to you by the way the doctrine is called promissory estoppel or a stop or when you justifiably rely if Steve Malzberg or fox or anybody goes on and says let me tell you couric when. And his or her meissen does not work does work and youre not qualified that might be something but during the hyperbole during the discussion during the opinion regarding something a vis note for somebody to make a mistake and youre going to go to court and sue them for misinformation implying steve not just eroni is information but an intent to deceive to throw people off good luck i promise you what you know would not have the press of that of a successful well you know who or agrees with you and we could take a look at this making kelly formerly a fox formerly of course of late of n. B. C. News she tweeted out in response to this whole thing anyone filing such a lawsuit would be laughed out of court and likely sanction by the court for filing a frivolous lawsuit so i guess i dont know shes a great legal mind she does have a legal background so you know great minds do think alike i would imagine. But steve there are people also im very familiar with the Online Platforms and i think theyre fascinating because some of the greatest stuff ive ever seen has been from quote civilian leadership there are people who have said the most asterisks stories about what this is about. The 1st amendment provides freedom to press freedom to explain freedom to report and if you are negligent you know if if you are just you made a mistake you didnt report it how about this you didnt report it enough what about this deep you didnt report it at all theres misfeasance none fees and mount fees and doing what if you did not cover something what if you didnt cover it enough where this is is again i mentioned before there are trying to go after certain targeted opinion based upon 1st of all intellectual property then later i hate speech now misinformation im trying to imagine what would the next one be maybe something involving inciting a riot or or discourse or something because clearly i dont want to be a kreskin or a mind reader here but they the intention of these folks is not to prevent misinformation is to stop fux is to stop just them absolute us as the 1st thing fox should say is oh ok lets do it you have your information now were going to give you ours lets talk about it things that have been said about president robert that would apply as well right right are or does that i think of it what theyre doing is theyre going to be there im sorry they go into the early days of foxs treatment of this virus and they did put out sean hannity for instance saying you know if youre healthy its 99 percent or whatever and theyre saying oh my god the 65 year old plus audience is getting all this this information is resulting in death i agree with you on a non legal person but i agree with you it seems some frivolous or ridiculous and all they have to do is point to for one the mayor of new york city who you know had to be dragged kicking and screaming just a couple of weeks ago to close it. But the new York City Schools are told people go about their lives so i agree i think its all ridiculous initiates another attempt when these professors sign onto a letter you know you know theres an all teary motive in my view in my opinion i know in my opinion now i want everybody to learn more about why i know. And by the way you talk about you 2 you do 3 shows a day on you to tell folks 1st where they could find you and then were back tracked and talk about where you started and how we came to meet each other its very simple line donation on you tube at 8 am to b. M. And 8 pm during this and there are its part of the symphony of information and as far as how we met i rather not go into that but how we met provided only i can i say from the days when we were part of the brother in on what was i believe and i hate to say was my mum pinion but one of the greatest talk radio bastions in flame throwers w a b c and we just yes this was what eve save in years i mean i dont even know im after whiter to keep track but we have been side by side throughout every iteration of that you were there before that but i started off in talk radio right when Rush Limbaugh was coming along and this thing blew up so weve seen the piece but steve very quickly want to say one thing its not talk radio its not talk its time its information and information or truth no m