The talking about the

The talking point memo is more bad news for the American media.

So the Associated Press and association with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Organization

has put out a study. It's an interesting study. I'm going to give you the highlights. Three-quarters

of American adults say the news media is increasing political polarization. Just under a half of American adults say they have no trust in the media's ability to report

the news fairly and accurately.

Four and ten say the press is hurting American democracy.

Now, it's a pretty strong numbers from an organization

that is not conservative, to say the least. A third of American adults say they see stories

with false claims from politicians or misleading headlines every day. Six and ten say the

news media bears blame for the spread of misinformation.

Okay, so these numbers are true in my opinion based upon my expertise and analysis of the country.

And the reason is that corporations now have taken over the television news industry. They were always in charge

from the time television was founded, Edward R. Murrow. The corporations were always in charge.

But there was a firewall between the actual journalism and the corporate offices. All right? They weren't supposed to

intrude the profit makers, but that has broken down 100%. And now the so-called journalists who work for

corporations in many cases are told what to do. And a lot of people think,

well, it's all based on ideology. It's not, most of it's based on profit. We saw that with the Fox News

Dominion lawsuit, that Fox was worried if it told its core audience that there wasn't proof that their election was a fraud,

that audience would go over to Newsmax, which was pretty much saying that it was a fraud.

And so Fox decided to go along with that and got into all kinds of trouble, and the unintended

consequences are going to ripple out for the next year or two. This is not over. Now, let me give you two very clear examples of how the corporation intrudes on the media's honesty.

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