A conversation with Wael Taleb - journalist at L'Orient Today.

Click to watch: https://youtu.be/FyJbW5P4z9M

Discussing the journalist's role in news reporting and features writing, built-in differences within fact-based coverage and opinion analysis, a wider meaning of 'Palestine' and sometimes separating a political cause from its people, feelings of liberation over time and how to transition from sub-state subjugation to a sovereign state.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

0:53 The journalist's job

8:18 Palestine

18:58 Narrative at stake

31:47 Expression

36:38 Feeling of liberation

47:39 A seat at the table

55:15 Domination to a state

1:10:07 Fallen in popularity

1:20:15 Not really involved