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Title: How the Press Gets Seduced by War
Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Stephen Kinzer
Format: Original Recording
Length: 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-13-17
Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios
Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
Last week, President Trump ordered the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Syria in retaliation against the chemical attack allegedly committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against his own people. The coverage of the strikes appeared to present a stark choice between good and evil, rather than a Gordian knot of geopolitics, regional politics, domestic politics, and the proliferation of terror. But is it really that easy?
Bob speaks with Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and a columnist at the Boston Globe, who argues that the public is being presented with a deceptively simple version of reality because the media aren't asking the right questions.