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plan you can keep it. ♪ >> you sell ads on the channel and support yourself that way. >> i got my own channel on u tube. supported my adses a lot of music i have made in the past is for sale. so far so good. i get to put myself in odd situations like the white house pressroom and flying on the back of the eagle and stuff like that and have an excuse. >> i am glad you do. thank you, remi. big story since the media got utterly wrong. >> we have word of an explosion. >> the tijuana brawley case abducted and raped 6 white men. >> there are certain things that people want to believe.
cocaine. >> the third bias is getting the story quickly, right? not waiting and saying here's a limited story, wait six months and see if anything comes of it. but just the mispersisted. this is 30 years later. john: people think crack babies were permanently damaged. >> and you are pretty early on as the new research was coming, did a terrific piece. john: thank you, i will be self-serving. glad you mentioned that, i exposed this in one of my specials on junk science. >> 15 years ago newspapers like rolling stone told us children born to crack addicted mothers were like no others. john: they lacked part of the brain that made them human, that would make them wild, dangerous, oblivious to ofection. they were like no others. it was disgusting and thank goodness for claire coal, the scientist who blew the whistle. >> people hear something three times they think it's true. that's what we're hopefully
interviewing me. >> he did. >> how many babies who had been exposed to crack did he study? >> only 23. it was a limited study. he saw the tremoring babies and high pitched cries he thought it was a sign of major damage it turned out to be nothing of the sort. these babies all developed in mostly normal ways. >> fetal alcohol syndrome seems to be much worse. alcohol is worse than crack. >> much worst. threw there were real implications to this. the story became a phenomenon and women were incarcerated for having cocaine in their bloodstream. babies were deemed unadoptable because they were crack babies. it shows the powers of the false narrative. >> they fit both the left and the right. the left is demonized cocaine and the left wanted more money
if the story turn out not to be true later, so what, everyone moved onto the next scary story. that's why it's good there's a media organization called retroreport that reveals media hype of the past. >> we have word now of an explosion -- >> in the united states this year at least 100,000 crack babies will be born. >> the tijuana brawley case abducted and raped by six men. >> hard to get rid of those. john: the executive producer of retroreport is kyra darnton, welcome. why do do you this? >> we like to think that retroreport is a counterbalance to the 24-7 news cycle, as the pace of the news is so quick, you never get to see the end of the story. did predictions pan out? were promises kept? we're building an online living
middle east the world today is less violent than it used to be. here's a graph of deaths from war. also people are healthier than ever and more tolerant. let's not underestimate that. life has improved for blacks, gays and women. check out this story, for and against wife beating. most of the women weather to beat your wife is the latest controversy. dr. waugh says beat her. it is well-known women love most the men who are cruel to them. today we consider that harmful but how would a reporter cover that change in attitude. maybe today in pittsburgh 6 people changed their opinion about wife beating. that's crazy. the reporter wouldn't know who they were. even if he did these gradual changes are not what people consider news. news is broken.
john: yeah, he did. the scientist who promoted the research that created the alarm, and kyra, how many babies who have been exposed to crack did he study? >> only 23, a limited study, and he saw the tremorring babies and the high-pitched cries and thought this was a sign of major damage but turned out to be nothing of the sort. these babies developed in mostly normal ways. and yet. john: fetal alcohol syndrome is much worse, alcohol is worse than crack? >> much worse it turns out. there were real implications to. this the story was a phenomenon and laws were passed and women were incarcerated for having cocaine in the bloodstream and stigma babies were deemed unadoptable because they were shown to be crack babies. power of the false narratives. john: the false narratives sit the left and the right, the left wanted to demonize
building at retroreport is a place to counteract those. john: i hope so. another scare story where the media went nuts. >> superpredators. >> who is so impulsive. so remorses that will he can kill, rape, maim without giving it a second thought. >> this country went into a moral panic over superpredators. they made it up. >> i did sound alarm and used strong language in terms of what might happen if we didn't react quickly. >> superpredator originated from inmate. these kids are stone cold predator. >> superpredator. >> predator. >> predator. john: one throwaway line from an inmate and it was a theme. >> once they latched onto superpredator, it exploded because it's this evocative, terrifying word, superpredator,
to get it right. reporters are good at telling us what happened today. what building burned down what army invaded, what damage from a tornado. when it comes to news that happens slowly, the media off fen get it utterly wrong. i suspect they are getting it wrong about global warming friends and gun violence, any story related to science, statistics, basic math a threat to many reporters. will combine that with if it bleeds it leads you get a very misleading report. it is not that they do it on if you were pos. the people who bring the ideas are alarmed. we get alarmed. eager to rush that news to you. we know that the scarier more bizarre a story the more likely it is our bosses will give us air time or a front page slot,
don't want to criticize our president? >> absolutely not. things like that are never said. i guess there's more of a significant gnat set. there wasn't time in the braurd cast. we have to drop something. your story will have to wait. they questioned the stories to death even though they are legally approved and perfectly solid. they kept questioning them and turning them over. they died a death of a thousand cuts. >> that's what happened to me at abc. i had well rated stories on school of choice and government. healthcare. there was a school of choice movement my boss said you are doing the predictable libertarian stuff. nobody wants to watch that. but they rated well. >> during seek station they followed the money stories which we had done for years primarily under president bush not because of him. the bureaucracies switched from
. john: most reporters try very hard to get it right, and reporters good are telling us what happened today. what building burned down, what army invaded, the damage from a tornado. but when it come to news that happens slowly, the media often get it utterly wrong, and i suspect they're getting it wrong about things like global warming, gun violence, gmo foods, anything related to science and statistics. heck, basic math! a threat to many reporter, combine that with the news proverb if it bleeds it leads and you get misreporting. they want to give us the facts but the people who bring reporters' story ideas are alarmed and we get alarmed and eager to rush that news to you! we know that the scarier and more bizarre a story, the more likely it is our bosses will give us air time or a front page slot.