A little over twenty five minutes right after the listening post next. On counting the cost will talk to i. M. F. Chief christine like god about how the economic model is changing here in the middle east can ireland break regs it find out how the emerald isle is caught in the middle of a big round between the u. K. And the us the year of the dog in china counting the cost at this time and. Feel to us the piece. Im. Just. Talking. Point among the most closely watched early on when it doesnt level diplomacy. A lot richard just but if youre at the listening post here are some of the media stories weve been tracking this week five rings two countries one flag if they handed out medals for spinning the story north korea would get the gold july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen the night turkey got a new National Narrative or at least thats what the government and the media that have its back would have you believe Facebook Google fake news and hate speech governments cant seem to fix it maybe big money advertisers care and egypt where the Security State gets down with the kids and i wish i was. A you had it was a case of let the games begin and cue the propaganda the politicking and the punditry at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics athletes from two countries still officially in a state of war north and south korea marched into the stadium together under one flag those images of a temporarily unified korea were beamed around the world and would have registered in washington how about the side of kim jong the north Korean Leader sr shaking hands with south korean president mungy in right under the nose of u. S. Vice president mike pence if stealing the show was pyongyangs intention the media played right into its hands offering extensive coverage of the delegation from the north wherever they light the the flame. Are going to be geopolitics in the mix but these games given where they are and the governments involved have taken an olympic politics to another level or a starting point this week is pyong chang south korea. Not every picture tells the story not every image is worth a thousand words but the right one in the right place time and context can pack a bigger punch than one hundred soundbites for a million tweets and images like this with athletes from two countries entering the olympic stage under one flag. Its a great photo op it makes for some good pictures it does give bring a sense of potential and the sense of optimism at least briefly for that sports event but it doesnt necessarily mean unification is around the corner of course theres an element of spectacle to it but it was also meaningful. And i think it demonstrated that the two koreas are trying to work something out at this moment one in which the North Koreans have developed a Nuclear Program now theres a lot of tension between them and the International Community and just having that Group Walking together doesnt erase all of that so you know it is a moment that suggests hopefulness and a lot has been said about the u. S. Vice president mike pence and his wife choosing to remain seated while tens of thousands of spectators including north korean envoys and the south korean president who are standing up and applauding wildly mike pence came across as grumpy borish insensitive actually quite offensive. If the Charm Offensive is to work the recipients must be open to persuasion and it helps. If theyre gullible pyongyang will have been pleased with the way the western media received jong kim jong un sr with the world watching the olympics she will put a young telegenic face on the regime there is no denying the significance of her presence at the games given that kim jong is the first member of north koreas ruling family to ever visit the south but before falling under her spell western news outlets might have done some homework and considered her day job propaganda is what kim yo jon does. As the head of north koreas department of propaganda and as a taishan. She does run a very important part meant that department make sure that North Koreans have few if any real access to outside information that they remain in that dog and that Department Also does its best to restrict the flow of information out of north korea none of that was broached in reporting on. Only the fact that she exuded the softer image that she smiled for the cameras that she looked modest and sincere. May be seen as a more propaganda show to make create more pitiful war loving images of north korea but from the viewpoint. That this is a very important political breakthrough given that she was the first korea link family members music to the south korea so in that way this is a better. Political breakthrough. In pyongyang chang jong became the temporary face of an authoritarian country that is politically dominated by man. Kim jong represents the Third Generation of a Family Dynasty a patriarchy that has lasted for seventy years. But when north korea ventures into the worlds. And in front of the news media women do a disproportionate amount of the p. R. Work in addition to kim your john the government sent more than two hundred cheerleaders to the camps its not the first time theyve been sent out but journalists cant seem to resist the cameras were drawn to the women like moths to the olympics. The media again a male dominated media is just all over them desperate to try to get a response from them you see its sort of a game in the south korean media its a tense can you get one of them to answer a question because theyre really quite tight lipped other than when theyre cheering you know im going to. Be like you just in a way its almost a propaganda failure because of how regimented and organized they appear it can look a little bit weird sometimes a little bit sort of stiff its sort of what you would expect from westin media because they really like this narrative and especially like the cheerleaders really fit into the caricature that theyve built of north korea and this idea of its this potemkin village and their fascination with how synchronize they are and how brainwashed they are and how controlled they are to not support stuff surround the cheering squad the heats the arch of the delegation would be under twenty four seven surveillance he says they wouldnt be able to go to the bathroom alone and it sort of revealed how little the western media knows about either korea and how little they understand about the the situation in hong kong predictable reality this morning i will ask you to excuse me the International News media treat north korea as a potential geopolitical flashpoint media in south korea see the north differently as an existential threat news outlets based in seoul are typically split along liberal and conservative lines liberal outlets are more open to accommodating pyongyang conservative ones are usually much more hardline but on this story and the bilateral meeting between kim your jong and the south korea. And president in the ideological gap in the south seems to have shrunk because of the stakes the arsenals and the players involved not all of whom are career. On the left you have editorials cheering when jane saying this is a very important moment of outreach and possibly a bigger breakthrough on the right instead of being critical of wins in editorials are saying things like this is good just be careful the gap between left and right is relatively narrow i think because South Koreans generally are very worried about the United States right now we think electrics will go very nicely and after that who knows well find out that President Trump is way too willing to risk war on the Korean Peninsula so theres sort of a unity of opinion across the board left and right looking for a way to defuse tensions and move on most of those grand newspapers and south on t. V. There are literally two in south korean hundreds of them and tell him you know your job. Is important protocol breakthrough and on the chinese im good im little need care why it will probably be under three ton and get what is needed on. Another korean war. Then graham people is the one who thought foremost i saw any kind of sign any kind dont just jump from the north to communicate without korea is have to be seen as a possible nor the way. The wall to wall coverage of this story comes with crack significant gaffes you know understand the south korean media know little about what goes on in pyongyang the International Media dont know their way around either country either story. And the vast majority of journalists parachuted into the olympics are Sports Reporters unschooled in the world of geopolitics for the kims of north korea this was more than a photo opportunity it was a propaganda opportunity and they took it. Were discussing other media stories that are on our radar today with one of our producers tarek nasr tarak one of the worlds biggest advertisers unilever now talking about pulling its ads from both facebook and google why so unilever is trying to succeed with its advertising muscle where governments of failed would they regulate three palace facebook in particular is facing criticism for failing to remove hate speech misinformation fake news and extremist content and the companys found a months occupy and began the year by announcing that the site it tweets its news feed algorithm to prioritize what it cools and meaningful social interactions. Its by no means clear though that that will solve those problems and unilever which owns brands like vaseline and ben and jerrys ice cream has announced it will pull out of it from facebook and google and left those companies clean up their acts and one unit lever executive actually put some of these but phones a little better than a swan so how do you read this move is it about principles or is it about profits i think its clearly aimed at protecting that brand unilever doesnt want to see its ads alongside content from White Supremacists for example and its become increasingly clear how little leverage governments actually have over social Media Companies to force them to change their ways hitting them where the billions they make an ad revenues could prove to be very consequential especially if other Big Companies follow unilevers lead the other story youve been looking at concerns an indian journalist anxious countered chakrabarti whos been fired over a tweet first of all who is she chakrabarty was a Political EditorOnline Outlet daily which is owned by the India Today Group last week she tweeted this turning a blind eye to hate mongering fake news spreading anchors Editors Reporters and writers or hiring them in the first place must be tried in court as hate speech enabler profiteers thats why it didnt name any names nor did it really get much attention but it was clearly too close to home for chuck about these both india today and i want to follow the indian media new chunk about it was probably talking about particular anchors some of whom are on india today of channels but about them could only give you hindu like you would john would have been someone a president the anchors like donna gore of star want frequently put out incendiary and sometimes completely false information on that and theyre not the only ones doing that in the indian media is this is the time Puerto Aventuras ok so what chakrabarti was describing is a very real issue on the indian airwaves and she paid a price for that yes she did her job senior editor. Stuff india today met to discuss the tweet and she says a week later she go call from h. R. Thinks you have three options to leave the tweet resign or face being fired saying she refused to be censored she chose the latter and the Company House of the trucker bazzi broke their rules on editorial conduct ok thanks to our sometimes a date on the calendar can become synonymous with an event a founding moment for a new media narrative september eleventh two thousand and one is an example of that for turks theres july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen when a failed coup attempt left hundreds dead and thousands injured now such states tend to come with a ready made enemy or at least a scapegoat and the turkish government has a bit of both in what it calls the for tool a terrorist organization or fettle a movement led by a reclusive islamic cleric based in the us for to look back in the early two thousand schools followers were allies of president heir to ones act party by two thousand and thirteen however they had fallen a politically and heir to one labelled the movement a parallel state a shadowy threat to turkeys democracy after july fifteenth two thousand and sixteen the government rebranded dylan and his followers as terrorists the listening post will yong now in the turkish medias role in framing the coup as an ongoing explanation for the challenges the country faces and as a way of crushing dissent. On distance. We need all of them and. Their conscience will in the middle mean they have to. Make. Kids what its kind of that in. The media narrative that has really played an Important Role forty eight k. P. Government and for president i dont want to disseminate a particular version of events. I dont let your love of the club. Which were going to i mean you. Talk with us to hear such an authority. That. Theyre. Soft to hear this in the us. Im. From the soldiers and civilians killed and injured to the bullets got walls of government buildings from accusations confessions prosecutions and recriminations a new National Narrative has emerged in which turkey is percent by an enemy within the fair to Terror Organization to be known henceforth by the acronym. Then its only journalists who want to defend the state also want to keep the fifteenth of july high on the agenda and. If you consider the counter the texture the intricate structure and the sophistication of the organization that we fought against on the fifteenth of july you will better understand why that day will not be forgotten. The government is trying to keep itself in power of the back of the propaganda fifteenth of july even before the curtain came to an end the progovernment media were very quick to label the coup plotters as members of fattah this discourse has continued unabated since that day. In truth the good in movement and the arc party coexisted and cooperated for years before relations soured. Took top jobs in the judiciary in education in the police and army and had Significant Holdings in the media but that history has no place in the current government discourse which has followers infiltrating turkeys institutions to form a parallel state when that organization. And to seize power by force it was only president early ones timely and effective mobilization of the popular will that stop them however while they could attempt was thwarted their supporters are still being outed all the time not only in the courts but in trials by media so well and new decree law as announced and people raise their concerns about the implications of that victory law usually the First Response from a progovernment. Member of the fattah. Party fit in in more than a ghost it just becomes a vehicle for silencing oppositional voices and for discouraging people from asking questions not only about that but in general about any government policy. The issue of for doing turkey is not an easy thing to grasp it is a movement which was so well hidden that many journalists supported them unfortunately some are saying that there have been unjust investigations of prosecutions against such as cases against journalists but we need to distinguish between true journalists and those who call themselves journalists here. According to president to one and many in the turkish media the influence of fettle even extends to a court in new york where late last year reza robb a turkish iranian gold trader admitted to running a sanctions busting racket trading iranian oil for gold paying millions of dollars in bribes to senior turkish ministers along the way. Testimony implicated oda one and his son bilawal but viewed from turkey this is all part of a federal inspired International Conspiracy hakimi. Judge has a link to the prosecutor has a clear link to one of the witnesses is a federal member who fled to turkey this is all linked to when turkey stopped playing the International Role expect the. And started to pursue its own destiny this hostility will continue their wanting to order and. At first the governments and progovernment media find massive importance to the robber as a valuable turkish citizen. However with the rope started to cooperate with the Prosecutors Office the prosecutor the judge and the entire u. S. Justice department would better order and as a sign up you know the legion he ducked the. Consciously the bow down not to of course this isnt a credible now that he or she didnt have it will. There is a discrepancy between the reporting of the zurab case by the turkish and the International Media the International Media look forward to seeing information against the one against his ministers and against his fights with the military has been a Long Time Coming out a man who has tightened his grip on power by jailing thousands of political opponents at home fifty thousand people have been arrested one hundred fifty thousand people lost their jobs or been suspended following the fifteenth of july the silence of western actors seem to say that they were sad that the coup had been prevented this may journalists who thought turkey in the west check common interests reconsider that position. Old are gone was in france when the french journalist asked him a question about syria and president are the one was not happy with the us question and he asked a journalist if he was a member of. All of these international and domestic developments can be explained as part of this International Conspiracy against turkey persecuted by enemies abroad infiltrated by enemies within most of the turkish media have now closed ranks around the state sanctions now. That appears to explain all of this in terms of the fails two thousand and sixteen to attempt meanwhile hundreds of journalists have been arrested the news outlets shouted or taken over by government supporters the result is a media landscape where the only story is the july fifteenth story the progovernment media is serving the same political narrative and the same political objectives as are going in k. P. The many obviously you know their political agendas are very much aligned and because they serve to propagate the message from the party and from the president we can see several similarities in terms of their narratives your. Views on my eighty to ninety percent of the media in turkey has been under government control for a long time and they report with one voice that is communicating on views foley within the last year we are feeling what we call the president ial palace media fighting among themselves to prove who is more pro who is super ultra ultra pro super. And that a lot of the couple of let. The stories that the nation tells become how that nation imagines itself collectively how it understands its picton hood its identity and its destiny. If for turkey july fifteenth was the day everything changed narratives around the failed coup unfertile or a new National Creation one that with so much of the turkish media behind it is rapidly becoming a new national reality. And finally kids just about everywhere like to spend time on you tube and when they do that in egypt they might learn how to become Police Informants somebody at the interior ministry thought it would be a good idea to produce a cartoon designed to do that it features two boys reporting some suspicious new neighbors to a friendly policeman uncle in the below now not everyone sees Egyptian Security forces in such a benign light the ngo Human Rights Watch for example recently said that the interior ministry oversees an Assembly Line of torture what follows is a slightly scary snapshot into the Security State that egypt has become under president. Elsisi but at least the kids get some chocolate out of the deal well see you next time here at the listening post. Here but the shelling the civic and the most of it needs another not just in the issue there and then the weighing session had to have even this going on dana and i became a yelling isnt all you can look. At the end. 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