Media Bias Creates Wave Of Journalist Resignations & Court Says Amazon Liable For Defective Products

Via America's Lawyer: New polls show more than 2 in 3 Americans have lost faith in the mainstream media, citing ideological biases in reporting. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss. Plus, Amazon can now be held liable for defective products purchased from its marketplace, including from third-party vendors. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows joins Mike Papantonio to discuss.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Prominent media outlets are losing employees rapidly as more and more reporters and journalists are no longer willing to put up with the bias of these outlets. Woo. Talk about this.

This is an interesting story, because this is now the third one. We had, Ariana Pekary from MSNBC recently resigned, wrote a scathing letter and saying there's a bunch of intelligent people at MSNBC, absolutely no question. They're also biased as hell. Now that's a paraphrase of what she said.

Yeah. Biased as hell was the exact term she used. Called it a cancer with no cure.

Right and that is what we have seen from MSNBC. We see it from Fox.

Fox, you see at Fox, CNN, MSNBC cancer without a cure.

Yeah.

And the problem you got here, this wasn't the first story. You got Bari Weiss who, who's story of.

The New York Times.

New York Times. Who was it Andrew Sullivan also?

Right with the.

New York magazine.

I believe so. Sullivan.

Yeah.

New York magazine. Yeah. And he is Andrew Sullivan, everybody knows who Andrew Sullivan is.

Yeah, or course.

But these people, some good, some bad I'll admit that, but they're all important voices, whether you agree with them or not and that's the point. And that's what all of these people have said. I don't care if you agree with me, I don't care. If you disagree with me, I have the right to say this with this outlet. But the outlet says, well, people don't want to hear what you have to say, so we're just going to silence you.

How, how many times when I did the show with, with Ed Schultz, where we told no, we can't do a story about TPP.

Yeah.

Phil Griffith, the little character that, Phil Griffith would come. He would say, no, you can't do a story about TPP because it's gonna hurt Hillary. Hell, TPP, NAFTA, CAFTA, we couldn't talk about any of that because the advertisers didn't want us to talk about it. So this woman says, you know what enough is enough MSNBC. I'm tired of being told what I can report and what I can't report. It's a, it's, it's a, I mean, if you listen to what she says, it's really a lineup of hate, division thats being driven by the media. The ideological bias of CNN, ideological bias of Fox, they see it clearly and they're saying I ain't buying it anymore. This thing that's supposed to take care of democracy is a disaster. Farron Cousins, thank you for joining me. Okay.

Thank you.

A California appeals courts ruled that Amazon can be held liable for defective products sold on its marketplace. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows talks about that with me. Mollye, this is so long overdue.

Yes.

Okay. Amazon puts the product into the chain of commerce. Alright. As long as there's no modification, no change to the product, there's a term called strict liability. You've put it out there, you've stood behind it in terms of strict liability. It's killed somebody, it's injured somebody and now the ninth circuit has says, you know, I don't think we're gonna let Amazon get away with that anymore.

That's exactly right. And this came out of the appeals court in California. It's based around a San Diego woman who ordered a, basically a replacement battery for her laptop through a third party seller on Amazon and when she received the battery, it exploded. It gave her third degree burns, caused her serious injuries, and she basically said, hey, I'm suing the manufacturer of this, the company that I bought this from, as well as Amazon, because you were negligent in allowing this product to be sold.

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