commentaries. let s talk about the toughest decisions you all had to make in the past year, what that means for 2017. kathleen, you first. any tough call you had to make in the final year as editor of the a.p. ? the tough call was deploying people in dangerous places and this year was it hard not to send people to terrible places we knew was happening because we couldn t get them there safely. places like syria? yes. we were only in aleppo once. we were able to talk to a lot of people in aleppo that we have credible relationships but there s nothing like being there and talking in person and another form of listening. another form of listening. let s look the the data real quick for the fifth year in a row, syria, the most dangerous place in the world for journalists. 48 killed in 2016 and 259 imprisoned. michael, this was personal for
showed an extraordinary of harassment from trump supporters because once they started to talk to them, they understood each other. he has a responsibility as leader of the country to suffer the personal attacks on individual journalists from the fair game conversation about whether journalism is doing the job they are supposed to be doing and whether we are faired or biased. i have no problem with that conversation, happy to have it with him personally. but he should not be calling out individual journalists and helping to lead an attack on them as individuals. that s not right. kathleen, do you expect this anti-attack strategy to continue, to criticize individuals? sure, that sort of thing works for him and for other presidents and not quite like this, he s taken it to a new level as he has in the campaign. but running against the media is out of, you know, page 47 of the
about tiffany or even ivanka, he should go out and do what he needs to do. one minute i have left. beyond politics, what else will you be watching for in the media world? i m watching to see the future of fox news post roger ailes, at&t/time warner deal, it s under scrutiny. what are your eyes going to be on? facebook and their relationship with publishers and the relationship with its readers and the whole question of fake news and to what degree does facebook shift its identity beyond just a platform to recognizing its role in the media ecosystem and it feels like a very kind of difficult dance for them and that s where i think we ll see a lot of those tensions play out. kathleen, michael, carolyn, stick around. think about your new year s resolutions. a reporter says she s covering an anti-factual science movement
they compete vigorously every single day. this weekend, all of them are coming together with one goal. this is a letter signed by virtually all of america s top newsroom editors urging the government to do more to secure jason resident knee january s release from a prison. he s been locked up since july of 2014 charged with crimes relating to espionage. this case continues to be a travesty. journalists around the world agree on that. the u.s. should press iran, urging the government to do more. this started months ago. they wondered what more could they be doing to support jason. the head of news at npr said kathleen carol was especially helpful framing the letter. he told me, we just wanted jason
time and again white house officials said that s not so and never a good day when the spokesman has to respect defend the president s respect for the first amendment. thanks, jim. kathleen carol, good to have you with us. justice department says we didn t do anything improper. they say, look, we can get your records. you made the phone call. phone companies have them. we can get them. do you think something illegal was done? i don t know because we don t know anything. they have seized secretly the phone records for two months of ap phones, 20 different phone lines and, you know, i have no way to know if that s illegal or not. attorney general holder said that and the deputy attorney general wrote you a letter saying this, we are required to negotiate with the media organizations in advance of issues subpoenas unless doing so would pose a threat to the integrity of the investigation. they say they were looking in to try to find the person that leaked the information to you of