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Belief. that's a problem. >> what's the solution? >> human beings evolving faster, maybe as fast as technology. i do think education. i mean, one of the things i've said for a long time, we don't have a fake news problem. we have a media literacy problem. we have to help people find out fact fiction. people have to be taught to do that. we need to teach it in the schools. and the platform companies should pay for the programs in schools. >> do you think that part of the problem is that there's so much media narrow casting? people choose -- >> yes. >> the place they want to hear from, in a sens...

Then? >> the solution is human beings evolving faster, i think. you know, maybe as fast as technology. but i do think education. i mean, one of the things i've said for a long time, we don't have a fake news problem y. we have a media literacy problem. we have to help people figure out the difference between fact or fiction. people have to be taught to do that. we need to teach it in the schools. and the platform companies should pay for the programs in the schools. >> do you think that part of the problem is that so much media narrow casting. people choose -- >> yes. >> the place they want to...

Russian information in the state department was to do the same thing back to them they were doing to us. no, your mother wears army boots to date myself. but what happens is that's what they like. they want you to get down in the dirt with them and they're better at it than we are. and one of the things that we realized when we talked this morning, they're not terribly sophisticated as they weren't trying to reach a sophisticated audience. remember, no tweet from a russian troll in st. peters berg is going to change hillary clinton's voting to suddenly a donald trump voter because of a tweet. ...

We're not at war with the trump administration. we're at work. that's what washington post editor said this week. summing up how most journalists see themselves. we're at work. there's a problem with that formulation. a lot of well meaning people don't understand our work. they don't understand who or what to believe. this is a media literacy problem. i'd like to challenge news rooms to face it head on and do more about it. of course, this problem existed well before donald trump became president but trump's anti-media attacks have exacerbated it. on saturday trump quoted thomas jefferson to m...

Of fake news in the world. so many of these stories pollute the environment comes from these sources. part of the problem is, i would say we don't have just a fake news problem. what we have is a media literacy problem. america don't understand actually fact based news and strong stories of propaganda. >> richard, great to see you. >> great to see you brian, thank you very much. >> up next of the movement of the all right. and donald trump calls for unity. what is the future of the conservative media. will extreme be the new normal. we'll talk to the ceo of the biggest media company in the u.s...