Same. Thank you all. Its been an honor. Our panel marty barrons book is the collision of trump, bezos and, the Washington Post. Few newspaper editors serve their stint in the public eye as much as marty did first at the boston globe during the expos of the priestly abuse in 2002 and then later as editor of the Washington Post starting in 2013 and through the combative Trump Administration. Marty collect pulitzer prizes, 18 of them earned under his watch at three different newspapers. Marty, can you tell us a little bit your book . Sure. This is this working . Yeah. Great apologies to people who were at the previous session. Ill be repeating myself a bit. Look, i never i didnt actually expect get to the Washington Post. I was total surprise to me. I had been working at the boston globe, got a call out of the blue and then what transpired . Sorry to the post and i when i got to the post it things change pretty quickly once i got there so six months, about six months after i arrived it wa
W. Twenty sixteen was an exciting year the results of the u. S. President ial election and the bricks and referendum in the u. K. Surprised a lot of people in the run up to those votes there was a lot of fake news floating around some observers said that facts had become less important. The post truth age had arrived. At the time i was working on a film about journalism and i wanted to find out more about this new phenomenon. I had always believed that the truth was the truth and that anything else was just false so i decided to talk to colleagues and experts to see whether this was actually the case. But i dont accept the. Kind of postmodern. Idea that cruise doesnt exist i think it goes we can try to find there are certain levels of truth theres verifiable truth that means that what you wrote can be verified so we need a media that. Is able to filter those lies out expose them so that we can. Shape our society in the most honorable way that we can the government always lies they may
Well look back at her life. Good morning. Over a third of us are popping christmas on credit this year, and over two Million People are almost constantly in their overdraft. Im looking at festive finances, and not blowing your budget. Good morning. But not if you are an english cricket fans. In sport, england go two down in the ashes. Their batsmen are blown away by australia in less than two hours on the final day in adelaide. And carol has the weather for us this morning. And shes feeling festive. Good morning. Good morning from Winter Wonderland in hyde park in london. This is the most photographed part. It is mild today. Cloudy and wet and windy in the north. And then the weather really changes. I will have the details in 15 minutes. Thank you good morning. First, our main story two men are due to appear in court today, accused of a plot to kill the Prime Minister. Both suspects were detained last month. Andy moore reports. Number 10 downing st, the target of an alleged islamist pl
State destroying property and forcing thousands of people to leave their homes the biggest blaze in Ventura County continues to grow burning more than five hundred square kilometers the flames are being fanned by strong dry winds more news on the web site out of the dot com tweet me ill tweet you back at peter dopy one thirty minutes of world news in half an hour see you then up next the listening post by. He was born in ireland but it seventeen found himself in the middle of a Political Revolution in egypt i went on stage and i spoke about democracy and i was put in a cell if you talk its a little with the sixty people were put a hundred and twenty people and so after four years imprisoned in cairo. Talks to aljazeera at this time. Of the president s. Speech will. Be yes. I mean if you look at. This point. Alarm introduced britain europe the listening post here are some of the Media Developments were tracking this week the yemen story is back where it belongs in the headlines it took
Not permit to march but they were blocking the road they were forcibly pushed but. In a city where anger has been close to the surface since Donald Trumps controversial decision it sparked to see these of running confrontations with the. Police sent in horses to break up the crowds noise spread anger and panic this has been a pattern throw. Away now taking it straight back to cairo where the Saudi Foreign minister peres speaking to that special meeting of the Arab League Foreign ministers. And voigt and on this. Assumption that we would call upon the and to National Community who are refusing this decision of the. Yes that position of jerusalem puts it amongst the most important issues that saudi arabia has always looked upon since king get pfizer and it has a special. Yeah you know what yes official position. For the saudis and the all the arab countries alike. It. Was the agreement of the subject of agreement of the. All the muslim world. Which was. Also the Pivotal Point of the. Roa