Al Jazeera Listening Post

Media and the murky world of espionage

Jul 11, 2010 Episode Archive
About this series: Listening Post, hosted by Richard Gizbert is Al Jazeera English's weekly media watch programme. The show casts a critical eye over global media and dissects the media's coverage of events and non-events! From what's being printed by mainstream newspapers to what's being published at the click of a button online, the Listening Post tracks media old and new and gives you a new and valuable perspective of what the media are reporting, what they are leaving out and what media consumers really need to know.
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When ten alleged Russian spies were arrested in the United States it made front pages around the world. Like most international stories, how those h...
When ten alleged Russian spies were arrested in the United States it made front pages around the world. Like most international stories, how those headlines read in the various countries involved, was a story in itself. In the United States, news agencies went back to Cold War templates to tell the story. But in the scramble to file those reports, many journalists neglected to ask some of the fundamental questions relating to the source, and timing of this story. Those questions were tackled however, in the Russian media but some of the theoretical motivations given, exposed flaws in their reporting as well. Our News Divide goes beyond the spoon-fed narrative, the political conspiracies and domestic perspectives to look at the bigger picture and how intelligence agencies are still managing to manipulate the media. Less
22:53 News & Politics
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