Eric Boulder News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

In his new role as chief political analyst for the broadcast group. sin claire, owned by a wealthy republican donor, largest broadcast group in the country. 3.9 purchase of tribute media could project the proadministration rhetoric to 70% of american households. in fact, sin claire affiliates are required to run those segments at least nine time per week. while one right wing media company is expanding its power to defend donald trump, breitbart is now doing its best to protect a new victim of trump's bullying. attorney general jeff sessions, a man that embodies the movement that elected donal...

Think we need to call sin claire broadcasting out for what it is. this is fascism. this is happening, it's happening now, and joy, i urge my fellow citizens watching this to wake up to what is happening in our country. fascism is happening in our country as we speak in real time. >> eric, these stations are required to run these, which are just essentially white house propaganda, telling people in local news, not cable news, this is your local broadcast, local news where you have boris saying everything is fine, russia is not a problem. this is not what americans are accustomed to seeing excep...

Eric. you guys count this up over at media matters. and i think the numbers bear out the fact that actually, in some ways, the mainstream media has been largely absent from this while the right has devoted themselves to pushing this. >> no, media matters detailed, particularly, "the new york times" has taken a rather dramatic step backwards. and just environmental coverage, and this falls under that. this is one of the red meat beats. when it snows, you make fun of global change. and it gets a response and everyone laughs on fox news. and the beauty is, you know, unlike the election, where eve...

Increase. and you contrast that with, you know, more than a 50% decline in arctic sea ice, which is the real problem, because there's a very large trend that's taking us in a direction where we will see the disappearance of the arctic sea ice environment in a matter of decades, if we continue on this course. >> although on the upside, we'll be able to drill for oil there, so everything's coming out swimmingly. climate scientist michael mann, thank you very much. joining me now, sam cedar, and eric boulder, media matters. i'm fascinated by the phenomenon of the fact that the right has managed t...

0 there is an entire industry that exists to feed its viewers and readers with contempt and ridicule for not only the basic science of climate change, but even for the people who toil in obscurity, risking their lives to avert genuine misery and disaster for millions of people. and that industry controls one of our two parties. >> joining me now is michael mann, professor of meteorology at penn state university. also author of "the hockey stick and the climate wars: dispatches from the front line." and michael, you are someone who was targeted for destruction, because you are a climate scienti...