same numbers we do now. whenever we start to feel icky about stuff, that s when we restrict freedom in a way that s unhelpful. i think you re absolutely right. in terms of, you know, when discrimination happens in a marketplace, that is a wonderful opportunity for someone else, to eat someone else s lunch. there s all this untapped talent. someone who manages talent. if there are people wide spread in the journalism industry who are being bad to women who are child rearing age, okay, i ll be good. you get to have but the threat yeah, go ahead. there s separate conversations. there s the question about individuals in the marketplace and how they behave and what they do to get theirs, right. that end there s the question about the ways our activity is about profiting from inequity. that s a separate conversation and one we have to police publicly. and so this is why we started why i started with slavery earlier earlier, we have been profiting off an equity for a very long time.
seltzer is following the latest developments for us. good morning. the state department also calling these charges absurd using the same language as the washington post editor. this has gone on for nine months. it is an outrage to so many in the journalism industry because it s an example of the criminalization of journalism that we see all around the world. this case though especially troubling because jason has been a famed washington post correspondent, the tehran bureau chief for years. that s why anthony bourdain sought him out when he went to iran to do a piece here for cnn. jason s the kind of guy you d want to talk to. and he would be covering all of the news about iran lately. the nuclear walks and all the rest if he were not behind bars. now he s a dual citizen, american and iranian. some suspect that made it easier for the government in iran to put him in jail. but these charges of espionage, there s absolutely no proof for them and as you mentioned it took months to e
kenneth pollack makes an appearance in michael s book as kenneth pollack, the go invade iraq guy. what s ironic is kenneth pollack just this week is, again, getting quoted credulously again by the new york times. by a media that, again, is showing itself to be fully capable of sleepwalking the country back into another iraq war on the say-so of the people they quoted to get us there so disastrously the last time. some people come off better than others. there s what i think is maybe a michael isikoff character doing real reporting. there s tom friedman from the new york times cheerleading for the war. there s direct quotes from the the new york times, itself, and from news weweek writtenm perspective of 2002 and 2003 as the outlets were failing and failing to notice they were failing, while the journalism industry treated the war as an opportunity for career advancement and not as something that ought to call up a rather sacred trust with the public to try to get it right. and
war on the say-so of the people they quoted to get us there so disastrously the last time. some people come off better than others. there s what i think is maybe a michael isikoff character doing real reporting. there s tom friedman from the new york times cheerleading for the war. there s direct quotes from the new york times, itself, and from newsweek written from perspective of 2002 and 2003 as the outlets were failing and failing to notice they were failing, while the journalism industry treated the war as an opportunity for career advancement and not as something that ought to call up a rather sacred trust with the public to try to get it right. and in the middle of it all, in the middle of what turns out to be a gonzo and very funny and very profane story is a newsweek intern who in the book is named michael m. hastings. character mr. hastings very transparently named right after himself. and in the book, michael m. hastings is a character that is not particularly sympath
appearance in michael s book as kenneth pollack, the go invade iraq guy. what s ironic is kenneth pollack just this week is, again, getting quoted credulously again by the new york times. by a media that, again, is showing itself to be fully capable of sleepwalking the country back into another iraq war on the say-so of the people they quoted to get us there so disastrously the last time. some people come off better than others. there s what i think is maybe a michael isikoff character doing real reporting. there s tom friedman from the new york times cheerleading for the war. there s direct quotes from the new york times, itself, and from newsweek written from perspective of 2002 and 2003 as the outlets were failing and failing to notice they were failing, while the journalism industry treated the war as an opportunity for career advancement and not as something that ought to call up a rather sacred trust with the public to