2024-10-05
50 分钟The media landscape in Lebanon; a new film exposé on Netanyahu; the state of book censorship.
I don't think we've had a single day off since the pagers.
I don't think any of us expected that it was just going to keep going and going.
A reporter based in Beirut describes the day to day work of covering and living through a war in her own backyard.
From WNYC in New York, this is ON THE media.
I'm Brooke Gladstone.
Also this week, a new documentary about the corruption charges against Benjamin Netanyahu uses leaked footage of police interrogations to help lay out the case.
It's not that he tried to kill evidence.
He tried to kill the system.
He took all of us hostage in this trial.
Plus an intensification of book banning efforts, this time by state governments.
You've got a teen who has their driver's license.
They're 16.
They can drive themselves to the public library, but they cannot borrow a book that might talk about trans people.
It's all coming up after this.
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