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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Mainstream Decline | Allen Jackson Now | March 10, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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At a time
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When there's so much change taking place,
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It's disturbing that finding
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The truth has been such a challenge.
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There are so many important issues on the table, yet
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So many inconsistent answers from america's news media.
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A business which all too often seems more interested in ratings
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Than reporting the truth.
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For example,
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While there's plenty of evidence that the economy
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Is getting better, is it fair to only report the weak spots?
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Of course not.
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Is crime going down? absolutely.
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But you wouldn't hear about it
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From the outlets that have a political agenda.
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The new york times slogan is all the news that's fit to print.
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So surely there should be some room for the truth,
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But not for their editors who found no cure
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For their trump derangement syndrome.
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The slogan at the washington post is democracy dies
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In darkness.
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I agree.
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So then why is that
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Once big news organization always so predictably dark,
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Especially when it comes
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To reporting on anything from the right side.
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That other side of the aisle as it's referred to in washington.
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Well, tonight
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We're going to drill down into how this came to be
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And some very encouraging change.
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It's taking place
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Where the part of the country that lives outside
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The big liberal cities is witnessing
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The growth of news organizations
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That make it their mission to be both fair and balanced.
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Here in nashville, we call that the truth.
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The role of the media.
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It's so important.
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One of the key things when god moves
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And when he calls people to significant shifts, is that
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He gives them imaginations of what's next.
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Now, i don't think abc, nbc and cbs are going to be
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Swept from the face of the earth in a tidal wave.
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I still think the new york times and the washington post
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Will be a mouthpiece for globalist.
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They're going to continue to exist,
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But there are new voices, new platforms, new expressions
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That are giving the alternative perspective,
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And they're becoming more numerous.
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They don't yet have the gravitas of the global
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Knuckleheads who set the agenda for the legacy outlets.
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But alternatives do exist where people can hear
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A different viewpoint.
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Truth is being told, things are being uncovered
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That they've desperately tried to hide.
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The absurdity of lies is becoming more clear every day.
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But the legacy media has a knack for burying the lead.
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Case in point during the state of the union address,
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When trump pointed out the damage
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Caused by transgender ideology being forced upon children.
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You could easily see on full display the stark contrast
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As democrat leaders just sat on their hands.
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It is shameful to mutilate children.
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We put people in prison
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For having pictures of children that are inappropriate,
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And yet they support the
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For profit industry of mutilating our children.
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The reason
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The democrat leadership
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Gets away with it
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Is because they have media coverage and support.
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They aren't criticized for it except by conservative
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Platforms.
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Yet in the midst of the darkness and craziness,
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We do have hope.
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And it isn't passive hope.
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It's hope
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That is anchored in belief that is expressed in action.
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Takes a bit of courage.
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God will not do for us what he's assigned us to do.
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David couldn't pray goliath off the battlefield.
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He had to go find five smooth stones.
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And we've got to find
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The courage to face the goliath of our generation.
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We can't just sit in our homes and churches
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And pray the enemy off the battlefield.
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Now, i'm an absolute advocate for prayer,
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But i also understand
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There are times where we must be present
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And use our voices to take a stand for what's right.
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I was talking to my dad recently.
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He's 89.
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We were discussing that.
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We are only three generations
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Away from the american revolution.
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Trump highlighted that same point
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During the state of the union address,
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When he honored the 100 year old military hero.
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He said that another 100 years before that,
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And we were back to the time of the revolution.
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Well, it's important to remember
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That our nation's story is not ancient history.
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We're not too far
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Removed from the people who were in lexington and concord.
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We have to have the courage to to defend freedom
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And liberty at its root in our generation.
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We can't just always withdraw
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From democracy and withdraw from blessings.
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We must make an investment and be willing to sacrifice
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So that the next generation
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Can have those opportunities as well.
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We haven't been asked to wade
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Ashore on omaha beach and into a barrage of gunfire,
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But we have been asked to stand up for the truth.
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In a season when deception is celebrated, when vulgarity
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And dishonesty is championed more than integrity,
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We've been asked to stand for a nation
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Where we hold citizenship.
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If you accept citizenship,
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Then you accept the responsibility
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That you're not going to let
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Anything happen to the nation where you're a citizen.
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This isn't just a political issue.
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We have to understand this season in spiritual terms,
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When everyone is left
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To make their own determinations of what is true, we quickly
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Find out that we're living amid the theater of the absurd.
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Well, our goal for this program is to serve you
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By presenting you with the truth,
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Providing a biblical worldview
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Which doesn't shift based on the whims of culture.
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So tell a friend. spread the word.
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The reality is, god is moving in the earth
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And we as christ followers must track with him.
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Find the courage to tell the truth
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And to let our voices be heard in the public square.
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It's going to take time for the new media
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To break through the old viewer habits.
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But more change is coming
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And the truth in news is rising to the top.
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Thanks to
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The people who reported and the viewers who support it.
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Well, in a moment
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We'll talk with the media expert,
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The president and executive editor of the daily signal,
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Rob louis. i'll be right back.
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Rob louis. i'll be right back.
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I want to set the table with
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An interesting fact about news media.
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There are more news
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Outlets than ever before, but there's far less reporting.
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Most people think they know what's going on,
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But the majority of what's out
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There is from just two big news agencies.
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The associated press and reuters.
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So so there's a lot to discuss.
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And as i said, there are signs of hope.
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Well, joining me now is the president
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And executive editor of the daily signal, rob louis.
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Welcome back sir.
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Alan, it's great to see you.
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And what a great point that you made there at the top.
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It's one of the reasons why we created the daily signal,
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Because we felt that
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They shouldn't have a monopoly on the news.
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Absolutely.
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Will you follow these trends as a full time job?
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Help me understand the roots behind the lack of real fact
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Finding out there.
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You know, it's not just that the legacy media
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Has been run by liberals,
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But there are more news outlets than ever before.
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So people think
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They know what's going on, but there's far less reporting.
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That's a big problem for all of us, isn't it?
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It's a big problem.
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It's what i describe as this pack mentality
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In journalism, where you have a lot of news
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Organizations that exist today purely to aggregate
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Or to repackage what somebody else has reported.
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And i think that that's deeply problematic because number one,
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You're relying
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Usually on one of those outlets that you mentioned,
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The associated press or reuters, or in some cases,
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Maybe the new york times or wall street journal,
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And they you're dependent on them
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Actually getting the facts correct.
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And often times is what we've seen over the course
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Of the last couple of decades
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Is that the people who are working in
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Those newsrooms may have a political agenda,
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Or they might not exactly include all of the facts.
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It's a bias of omission, sadly, that has that has penetrated
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So many of these newsrooms and is doing a disservice
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To the customers
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Who are expecting to get truthful information.
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And so one of the things that i always
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Advise news consumers is to make sure that you have
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A wide variety of news outlets and sources in your media diet.
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You have to have a balanced approach,
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And sometimes that means
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That you're going to go for those wire services
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Like an associated press,
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Or maybe you're local news or local newspaper.
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But look for other sources beyond them to make sure
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That you're consuming the full spectrum of news as as you can.
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Well,
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Another issue is the economics of reporting,
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Meaning sending journalists and their equipment
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Out in the field,
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Which can be expensive, and the editors back home
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Wanting to publish 24 hours a day.
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So just publishing talking opinion.
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Well, it's better on the bottom line,
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But it also leads to just
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Hearing one person's opinion rather
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Than an accurate set of facts,
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Especially when there's a political agenda behind it.
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Is that the the circumstance that you're seeing?
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Certainly, al
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And that's that's another problem
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That we've certainly seen develop in the 24 over
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Seven news environment that you're talking about.
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The there are incentives to, to doing what you described.
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Clearly, a lot of these news organizations
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Depend on advertising revenue, right.
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And so the more content that you create, the better
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Chance you have on people clicking.
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If you're
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If you're a digital publisher or sticking around
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And watching that channel and keeping it,
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Two and 24 over seven in your home or office
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Or wherever it may be.
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And yes, you do typically see the same types of voices
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On these networks, over and over again.
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And that means you're probably going to be limited
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In terms of the types of perspectives
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That you're getting.
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I would say that that's one of the reasons
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Why i usually never turn down an invitation
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When i get to go on a place like nbc news or cnn or abc,
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Because oftentimes the conservative viewpoint
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Is not represented very well, if at all, on
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Some of these networks.
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And so i think it's important,
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That we,
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We continue to challenge
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Some of those legacy media outlets
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That are existing
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With this,
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This type of framework that you described
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To make sure
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That they're not just coming at it
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From one particular point of view.
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Oftentimes, the situation that we find ourselves in
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Is that they've gone to the same journalism
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Schools, they've graduated from the same colleges,
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They hire the same types of people,
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And they have this mindset that's trapped in a bubble.
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And it's why, if you go back to, 2016, when donald trump
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Was first elected as president,
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You had a reckoning in a lot of newsrooms and said,
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Who is this guy?
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How did this happen?
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Who are all of these americans who voted for donald trump
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Simply because they didn't
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Have any kind of presence in those communities or those,
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Those places of the country that supported donald trump and,
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They tried to make some changes at the time.
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Sadly, i think they've largely failed.
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Well, you mentioned the journalism schools.
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It seems to me that they're full of wannabe reporters, but a j.
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School professor has a different job
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Than an assignment editor who may be pushing an agenda
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That's more about ratings than balanced fact finding.
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That seems to be an inherent conflict, isn't it?
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Oh, it certainly is.
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I mean, in journalism school and i.
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I'm a journalism school graduate.
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You are typically taught,
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The, the basics of how to report a story.
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And hopefully most journalists today understand the criteria
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In terms of developing sources,
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Making sure they're trustworthy, scouring
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For for facts and information, getting access to documents.
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All of those things are essential tactics
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That come, through the process of reporting a story.
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I think what you're getting at is, is a situation that we
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Find ourselves in today.
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Going back to your first question,
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Where people don't want to put in the hard work or the effort,
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The assignment editors are typically looking
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For quick turnarounds on a lot of stories,
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And that means that you're going
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To be seeing fewer investigative reports, from,
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From mainstream and, and legacy media outlets.
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You're probably not going to see
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Reporters spending the time and energy
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On particular stories that, that could have a big impact.
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And instead,
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They're going to be
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Looking for opportunities to take the quick win.
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Get the clicks
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And then move on to whatever the next topic might be.
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It's why in the past, you know,
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Sometimes we would have days when a particular story
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Would dominate the headlines and now, as you know yourself,
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It seems that the news cycle
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Is changing sometimes every 15 minutes
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Because there's something new that's
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Being reported on on x or instagram
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Or one of the social media platforms
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That's driving the conversation.
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You know, while the size of some of the legacy news
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Organizations is large,
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There's a much smaller group of influential inside
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Who guide the majority of what gets on the air and published.
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These are businesses, too.
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So tell us about the pressures that exist to make money
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Versus being inclusive of all sides of the stories.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Well, this is, the driving debate.
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I mean, we see this right now
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With so many different media outlets.
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I do think profit oftentimes trumps,
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The, the, the seriousness of journalism.
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And i think that that's just the sad
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Reality of the situation we're in.
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I think that there are other news organizations that exist.
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And i'll point to the daily signal as an example.
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We're organized as a
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Nonprofit news organization, and so we really depend
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On the financial support and gifts of individual donors
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Who who view the journalism
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And can judge us and give us a contribution
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If they think we're doing good work,
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As opposed to being so driven by a profit,
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Based on advertising or sponsorships that,
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That so often seem to be the case today.
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I'll also point you to podcasts.
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You know, podcasts have been a big area of growth and,
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Again, are driven largely by the advertising dollars.
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And as a result, i think you've seen in some cases, sadly,
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This, this willingness to embrace conspiracy theories
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Or other topics
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That might get a lot of clicks and listeners and views,
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But don't necessarily represent what i think is good
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Quality journalism.
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So it's not just the big corporations
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That are subject to the greed of the marketplace.
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Individuals with podcasts have to face those same challenges.
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Oh, definitely.
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Absolutely.
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I mean, this is this is a very crowded
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Media landscape, as you said, at the top.
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We now have more media organizations today
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Than we ever have.
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And as a consequence of that,
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The competition is pretty fierce.
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And, we see that on a daily basis with our reporters
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In terms of trying to break news
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And get exclusives and scoops on stories.
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But you also see it in just the capacity of the american people
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To consume news.
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There's still 24 hours in the day,
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And they have a lot more information
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Being thrown at them,
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Based on how they might be consuming it,
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Whether it be
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Sitting in their car, listening to a podcast,
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The scrolling social media feeds,
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Or if you're still a traditionalist,
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Watching the evening news or getting the newspaper
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Delivered to your home,
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You're going to be challenged, i think, to,
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To basically make decisions on how you want to spend your time.
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Rob, can you stay for another segment?
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A lot more to talk about?
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Absolutely.
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I want to turn the page and discuss what's changed in
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The hope that we have for better and more honest days ahead.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with the executive
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Editor of the daily signal, rob louis.
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Other things are changing,
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Including the fact that our government has stopped
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Spending hundreds
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Of millions of taxpayer dollars on public broadcasting,
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Which eventually became very, one sided and very liberal.
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Senator kennedy used his clever louisiana
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Spin to describe a good example of the bias.
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Listen to his comment.
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Here's another headline.
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Eating less beef is a climate solution.
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Eating less beef
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Is a climate solution.
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I don't have anything against vegetarians.
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I'm a semi vegetarian myself.
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I eat beef and beef
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And cows eat grass, so that makes me a semi vegetarian.
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But that's my choice.
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Not on npr.
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Congress should not compel taxpayers to fund to fund
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A service that the american people don't need,
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Especially when the content.
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Well, you can read what the content is
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And maybe you agree with it,
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But a whole bunch of americans don't.
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It was narrow casting for liberals,
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So now they've had to find their own funding.
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Seems fair to me.
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What do you think?
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Oh, i agree with you, alan.
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It's absolutely fair.
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Taxpayers should not be subsidizing these media outlets.
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And for far too long,
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It was a battle that conservatives fought.
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And thankfully now, i think because of the efforts
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Of president trump and doge and some republicans in congress
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Who decided to
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To mount a fight over
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This, it's come to an end in the corporation for public
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Broadcasting has announced that it's shutting down.
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I also think there's a related issue when it comes to
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Some of these media, monitoring organizations there
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There was there's a group called news
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Guard that was, taking taxpayer funding through through
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Advertising agencies,
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From agencies like the department
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Of the department of war and the pentagon.
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And, they've now prohibited that in congress
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Through the national defense authorization act.
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And so i think any time
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The government government dollars are involved, taxpayers
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Have a right to scrutinize how that money is being spent.
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And if it's being spent on outlets that are outright
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Biased against christians and conservatives and republicans,
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And that's a problem.
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Well, fox news is 30 years old,
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And now there are a lot of
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Conservative news
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Organizations, podcast websites, drivetime radio shows,
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President trump to help kick
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Start some of them when he began calling out fake news.
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We're turning the corner, but i want to know how much of
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What's out there is still led by the legacy media
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And what people can do to support the bigger truth.
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Oh, it's, it's a situation
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Where i think president trump feels this on a daily basis.
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If you look at some of the polling numbers,
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And it's no surprise to me that if you get 90 to 99%
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Negative coverage on some of these legacy news
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Organizations, there's no doubt that independent voters
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In particular are going to shift their opinion
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On issues like immigration enforcement
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And other issues like the economy
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That the president at one point was doing very well on
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And now seems to be underwater and so that is an effect of
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Of the, impact and the influence that legacy
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News organizations continue to have in our country.
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I think that the other factor
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That we just have to be aware of, alan, is that, you know,
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Despite the fact that that other media sources exist,
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It's still a challenge for us to break through
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In some platforms.
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Apple news, for instance, came under scrutiny
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Recently by people like senator marsha blackburn
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Because they were discriminating
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Against conservative and christian news outlets
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By featuring legacy or left wing outlets in their algorithm.
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The same is true for some other big tech companies.
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And so,
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Despite the fact that we may exist
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And have a presence, doesn't necessarily mean it's easy
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For the american people to find the news
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And information that we're producing.
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One brief last question.
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What advice would you give our viewers
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About the best way to support
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The continued growth of truth in media?
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Oh, absolutely.
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It's a great question and thank you for asking it.
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I think, number one, first and foremost,
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Find outlets that you can trust.
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And you can evaluate them
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And have a set of criteria that you develop to make sure
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That they're giving you truthful news and information.
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And so, i would obviously hold the daily signal up there
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As an example of what we strive to do every day,
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Because we depend on the support of, of individuals
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When it comes to making donations to,
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To our organization to operate.
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But there are so many different organizations
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That might be focused on particular issues
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Or areas that, that your viewers might be interested in.
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And so don't just rely
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On the traditional or the legacy media outlets.
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Look for these new outlets that have emerged in the last
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10 to 15 years that are providing credible
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And truthful information to the american people.
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Well, thank you for joining us again today.
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Stay in touch and we'll have you back.
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Thanks, alan.
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In a moment, your emails and questions from coast to coast.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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Your thoughts and input are always a highlight.
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Vicki in arkansas
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Pointed out the ten commandments
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Are a set of directions on how to live.
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Simple notations of directions for the wise.
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Imagine if all our notations of directions were removed.
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All door signs and numbers,
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Road signs, maps, building signage and logos gone.
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Where would we be when something is important?
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God keeps it simple.
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Vicki, i love the idea and i don't know if you listen
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To the live stream, but before too long
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You're going to hear a sermon
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About all of our signs being removed
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And the fine mess we would find ourselves in.
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I think your idea is right on point.
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I'll try to remember to give you credit.
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Judy blume
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From california said, pastor allan jesus specifically said
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How important loving your neighbor as yourself is.
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Then why did he make animals so much easier to love?
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That's a real stumbling block for me at times.
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God bless you.
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Well, judy,
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My father was a veterinarian, so i got to see
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A disproportionately large number of animals,
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And they're not all so lovely.
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Now, they may have learned
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Some of that from their owners, i'm not sure,
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But i do know this.
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The bible tells us that people are made in the image of god.
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So our motivation for making the effort to love
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And appreciate one another in spite of our differences
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Has something to do with the fact
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That god values every human being.
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And i believe we have to choose to do so as well.
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So it's
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Always an honor to spend a few minutes of our day with you.
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Your influence makes a difference in our world.
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You are important
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And i appreciate you choosing to spend
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A few minutes of that day with us.
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God bless you and you have a wonderful evening.
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