A Reporter’s View From Beirut, and a New Film Plumbs the Depths of Netanyahu’s Corruption

贝鲁特记者的视角和一部新电影揭露内塔尼亚胡腐败的深度

On the Media

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2024-10-05

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The media landscape in Lebanon; a new film exposé on Netanyahu; the state of book censorship.

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  • 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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