Your Lying Eyes

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On the collapse of the accountability state — from the removal of federal watchdogs to lying cops.

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0:00.0	News outlets have always relied on police sources for scoops and info, but what happens when those sources are wrong?
0:07.7	Local news in New York City, they're just being told cops would intentionally poison that is shake-check.
0:13.3	I mean, that story tells itself.
0:15.0	Shame it didn't also fact-check itself.
0:17.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:20.6	I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:23.2	One newspaper that did pause on quoting police records got blowback from readers and from within
0:29.5	its own newsroom. People interpreted what we were doing as somehow withholding information.
0:35.0	People are used to media that wraps things up in a half hour, and we're not
0:41.1	comfortable at saying, well, let's wait a second. Also, with the systemic firing of government
0:46.1	watchdogs, we ask, what are we missing? The White House today doubling down on President Trump's
0:51.3	claim that Republicans who oppose him are, quote, human scum.
0:56.1	It's all coming up after this.
1:02.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:09.1	And I'm Bob Garfield. They seemed like unrelated stories this
1:13.3	week. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is suddenly fired. Jeffrey Berman,
1:19.0	the powerful U.S. attorney in Manhattan, who had investigated many Trump associates, has been
1:24.6	fired. A Trump appointee heads to the Voice of America and Cleans House.
1:29.7	PAC's first step was to force out Amanda Bennett, a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes as the top
1:34.9	editor at VOA. Then within 48 hours he fired all the network heads and their advisory boards.
1:41.1	Is this part of President Trump's plan to gain control over an independent and federally
1:45.4	funded media organization? And a Justice Department lawyer testifies in Congress about Attorney
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