Http twitter. Com cspanwj. You can also find us on facebook at www. Facebook. Com cspan. Or email us, journal cspan. Org. What matters more to America Brian williams leaving, or john stuart announcing stepping down from his post on the daily show. It turns out that most americans do not even know who williams is. I. A survey found that only 29 of america could identify Brian Williams from a photograph. 15 of those were able to identify him from the age of 19 to 25. 34 of those 65 and older. Audiences have been losing in just a news anger since 1980, the story reports. 30 years ago nearly one half of americans can identify dan rather. Byin 1985, about half of americans watched news. Our first caller is arthur from corpus christi, texas. He is a republican. Good morning, arthur. Caller good morning. I love cspan. I havent been out very long but you said something that got me on my emotional side about the media. To tell you the truth i have a hard time trusting any of them. Host what makes you feel that way . Caller fox, nbc, cbs everything is run by these big club garments. Conglomerates. Sometimes i get to the point where i think is there really such a thing as isis . Or are we all be lied to . That sort of thing. Host let me ask you this what would it take News Organizations to win your trust back and make you feel like they are there for you . Caller there would have to be a new network. Who come forth with the claim that they are totally independent. And back that up with some sort of credential. Host we are going to pontiac illinois. James, a democrat, is on the line. Caller first time i ever got through before. Most of the time i trust most of the news media. I prefer msnbc. They are the best one that i have found. Fox is good also. They are pretty fair and straightforward. They do the best they can as far as putting out the news on what they can get from the politicians. I still think cspan does a better job than any of them. Host shrewsbury, pennsylvania. Gerald, a republican. Good morning. Caller there was a study done not too long ago in Journalism Schools and they has to its why they were there. Their answer was to change the world. That is not answering, who, why when where, and why. Thats all you have to know, they wanted to change the world. Host see you think it starts pretty young russian mark caller absolutely. If that is their mind going into journalism. Host what should be the role of journalists in the United States . Caller to answer deliver the news. The who, what, when, where, why. Not their personal opinions. Host do you think you trust american journalism today . Caller not at all. I want to hear editorials on the editorial page and not in the news. Host we will be joined by Frank Newport now from gallup. Good morning, frank. Guest good to be with you. Host i gallup, you annually track how much trust americans have in the media. How does it look . Guest it is down. The way we phrase it is how much trust you have what it comes to the news reporting accurately and fairly . And the clinton years, there were was 55 . Now we are at 40 . Host we have been talking this morning about the story that Brian Williams has been suspended by the network for six months for his embellishments. What do you expect the story how will that impact tt this study when you do it again in november. Guest we also have another track where we track confidence and institutions. Television is one of those. That is down to 18 . It was as high as 45 . It is down to 18 what we update it last year. An answer to your question, the Brian Williams scenario played out in this climate of already declining trust in the news media on the part of americans. Many americans would say, yeah what is new . This is not necessarily biased. I think it cant do anything but reinforce what is already going on. Whether he can drop much more or not, that is a different question. Host from your research, either factors that americans consider when they trust the mass media . Guest one factor is partisanship. It is clear in the day that analyze instances that republicans have jumped off further than democrats. For whatever reason, you have conservatives and republicans over the last 10 or 15 years who have become more likely to be distrustful of Mainstream Media. There is a clear partisan differentiation in other words. Where that came from it is the chicken or that i. You have radio talkshow host playing into conservative of motions of the immediately by us. I do not know where the holes cycle started. Those sentiments out there and people taking advantage of it to make money. Nevertheless that is part of the factor clearly that there is a narrative out there that we see in our date, more so on the right than the last, about the Mainstream Media being bias. That brings down the overall numbers. Host you talk a lot about the television media. What can tell us about other mediums of news . Guest we do not track radio regularly. People ask about that a lot. I am on a radio show. We have in our list of things we check, internet news. It is actually low as well. Slightly above television. We also have oldfashioned newspapers. It is low as well, but above television and internet. Of the three that we had in her most recent, Television New was slightly below the other two. Host Frank Newport of gallup. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Well take a look now at a cartoon that appeared in this mornings Washington Post. It is from the iwo jima memorial. The caption saying, is that Brian Williams. Our question this morning what is the state of journalism in america . Jaded n writes when News Organizations are division of a large enterprise they become suspect. One of your rights trust will come back when the msm covers the real news, if i can find online they should cover it. We will read you one more tweet. Journalism is ambulatory and on life support. They used to expose the truth the real truth to the population, not anymore. Joe is on the data line from massachusetts. Caller good morning. I would like to nominate jon stewart for the president ial Freedom Award for his Great Service to this country. Host what makes you say that . What do you like about john stewart . Caller he exposes the hypocrisy of the media. He is always pointing out the fallacy the people here on fox noise because you cannot call that news. I think he was a great asset to our country. College students for the last 17 years have had john stewart to guide them through the noise of the news. Host joe manchi mentioned the role john stewart has had on young americans. 39 of daily show viewers were between 18 and 29. That group takes up just 23 of the public as a whole. That is a demographic that politicians kill for. It explains why those running for office, particularly democrats, connect with stewards urban, less leading audience. His work serves a lot of the same function as Traditional Network news shows. From philadelphia, mark on the democrat line. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. Great subject. First of all the state of journalism in america. American news stations cable news, i do not even watch them anymore. I watch al jazeera. Rt russia today. A very good station on cable. Occasionally bbc. Most cable news to me is just entertainment, kind of being fluffed off as news. Its all corporate. You do not get the true story. I see specials on out of that are absolutely phenomenal. You would never see them on American Network news. Brian williams making all th that money. Its like going into an old age home. You only have these old guys. Come on. Lets get with the program. Host this week also saw the death of two noteworthy journalists. Bob simon, a longtime correspondent from 60 minutes. He was 73 years old. In this mornings wall street journal i think nbc essentially ended williamss career. He could not continue because he canno longer report or grill with a story is lies, and in modern america of the stories always lies. The 2016 president ial campaign has already begun. There will be famous daves and embellishments. How can a reporter asked questions when hise is known to embellish. Next up is chris from alabama. Caller i think there are several reasons. You have to look at the big picture. You have to look at corporations. You have to mainly look at the Supreme Court. Campaign reform. It is corporations. If corporations are people and money equals free speech. Where does that leave the average citizen . Corporations, certain entities owning more and more media outlets, fewer and fewer people control the news. In congress, its like they get out of office to become lobbyists. Lobbyists for what . The super pacs. We dont know what the money is coming from. When you look at if corporations are people, money is free speech, and super pacs are legal. Democracy is almost gone. There is also the problem of advertorial. Where cbs will promote drones shows throughout the newscast. Watch sunday at 7 00 p. M. For this whole story. Bloomberg came out and said, we will do more advertorial. We will promote ourselves. When you have a News Organization promoting themselves, you have a system where corporate money drives and owns a lot of it, then theres almost no place for the voter the average person have a voice. Thank you. Host our topic this morning is your views on the state of journalism in it america. Another death in journalism this week was david carr. Carr was the author of the times media equation column. He died at the age of 58. Out of englewood, new jersey sandra is on the democrats line. Caller hello. I am a long time listener and the first caller. The reason im calling im on the democrat line. Its because i think the worst thing that nbc could have done was to spreadend Brian Williams. We needed to hear exactly what he meant when he said what he did. If we can allow elected politicians to tell annabelle her story, why would we think any differently of Brian Williams . He is a human being like everyone else. We all make mistakes. In the meantime, we have people that relate to Brian Williams incident the ratings wouldve gone through the roof had Brian Williams say in his job. Im so sorry they suspended him. A cute. Host thank you. Host lets turn to some headlines this morning. Supporters of the Affordable Care act are conducting a late push. Socalled younger invisibles who consider themselves immune to illness. The white house cranks up its online outreach for health care with a video by is feed featuring president barack obama practicing his jump shot and ad admiring himself and sunglasses. Right now well take a look at that video. [video clip] the deadline for signing up for Health Insurance is february thats not right. February february 15. You can get Health Insurance for less than 100 dollars per month. Go to healthcare. Gov to find out. February 15. Thanks, obama. Thanks, obama. Collects pretty good. Collects thats pretty good. Down by one. He gets it. Mr. President . Collects can i live . You do you. Yolo, man. Host that was president obama making his pitch for twentysomethings to enroll in the Affordable Care act. It is worth noting that the bu zzfeed editor in chief said they had an interview with obama recently. On the front page of the Washington PostOregon Governor stopping down. Governor John Kitzhaber ritchie is on the State Capitol on friday afternoon. He announced his r resignation in a letter. Here is fi he and his fiancee, sylvia hayes, continue to be investigated for misusing their influence for personal financial gain. His resignation will take affect on wednesday at which point the secretary of state will take over. We will go back to our phone lines and the state of the media in america. Andrew is on the line for republicans. Caller people often complain about corporations being people. Corporations are made up about employees. By employees. Their unions can take actions. If other groups to get together and form Political Action committees so that they can have a voice, corporations need to have an equal standing. People often joke about that. Corporations are people. They are made up of people in the industry. It is annoying to listen to people. If you turn around and ask them, fine. Should every group not be able to get together and have a political voice. . They will immediately say, no. It is that clash on anyone who makes a profit. Also i would bet that the Oregon Governor did not get federally prosecuted as did bob dell from virginia because he has is a democrat. Have a good day. Host frank in south carolina. Independent. What do you think the state other media is today . Caller is fox news were held to the same standards of Brian Williams. It seems like they are half news and half height. Every hour on the hour, fox is bashing the president. Saturday morning early. Bashing the president first thing in the morning. Is that really news . Why dont you say fax. Telefax. Be all opinionated. It is ridiculous. At least at msnbc. I dont remember the bashing bush like that. They may tell the truth about the iraq war. But bashing him 24 7, and they call themselves the news network . It is ridiculous. Host we will look at more of your tweets. If you watch a Certain Network you see a topic of its way for seven. Journalism is no lawyer just a morning paper and the nightly newscast. It is also cnn, fox, msnbc twitter and youtube. Days of w Walter Cronkite are over. News media has been taken over by political hacks. Finis on mind http twitter. Com cspanwj. Jeffrey on the democrats line. Caller i would just like to wish all of the ladies and do you, a happy valentines day today. You are so wonderful. I was want to wish all of you wonderful ladies happy valentines day. I lost my wife of 64 years last year. I know she is in heaven. Im going to celebrate valentines day, and you women are so wonderful. It breaks my heart to hear some of the men and how they talk about women. The war on women in all those things. Host happy valentines day to you. What are your thoughts on the state other media . Caller i dont think they report the news fairly for minorities. Some of the things i hear they wont report the news fairly for minorities. I see things that happened regularly in my state. They beheaded at man right here in my state and it never made the news. We talk about isis. And one man right here killed his own son. He was white man. It happened. No by commits crimes but African Americans they dont report the news fairly. A lot of them just call in on cspan, and they say things that are not true. They make up things. Cspan is too great of a place to let people get on and tell lies. Thats why dont like about the media. Never call them out when they tell lies. Just make up things. Most of them are white males and women to. Most of them are never true. Hold their feet to the fire. A just upsets me. Thank you. Host another headline this morning. This one is from bloomberg news. Barbara bush on jed i change my mind. Barbara bush cleared the path for another fun to run for president. Ive changed my mind, she said. Her announcement came via skype to supporters of her family literacy foundation. While her son, jeb bush, sat on stage gladly welcoming her approval he said, can i get that in writing . We will go to jean on the republican line. Caller hello. While you protect about journalism, ive not heard anyone mention intimidation. Intimidation from the government. I think it does happen. It has always happened. I dont just mean this in ministration. Presently, this in ministration tops them all. The wanted since i can think of it is bob woodward was talking about something that recently happen. I dont remember what it was about. All i remember was that he said, this is madness. Then, about one week after, he retract or he said. The reason i noticed him is because he is very well known. But, i heard it many other times in the news where a reporter would say one thing, or pundit would say one thing, and about one week later they would retract it. There was even the incident, in one of the southern states, while i cant remember. Its i wont talk about it. All i know is that i think the media is void about what to do. Some of them are threatened that they will l to lose their job and others are threatened that the whole paper will shut down. This is happen in recent news. People who watch news a lot will remember it. I think that ought to be considered. If not just the journalists. Look at rosen, james rosen. What happened to him. I think it was all slept under the rug, i dont hear the about anymore. The administration goes after the journalists. They dont want them to say certain things. People should remember that. Is not just the journalists fault. There is a whole credit thing going on in his country. It is not good. Host an editorial from the l. A. Times. They write Brian Williams got his facts wrong about his fight in the iraq war zone in 2003. Then he got the apology wrong. On saturday, with more Public Statements he stepped aside as a good temporarily while nbc investigates. His travails are the latest in illustration of the perils of celebrity journalism in which the story takes a backseat to the person telling it. Williams plunge in believability harms not only himself, but potentially all serious analysts to rely on the trust of the audiences. Joe in north charleston,. What do you think about journalism . Caller it is poor. I got you just read the article. It hurts brians behavior his behavior hurts the industry in general. Let me go back to where caller said. She m