hello, welcome to the media show. now, this week, we become aware of power battles within the taliban as we watch keenly to see what kind of government it wants to create. also this week, we re seeing increasing evidence the world s media is tuning out of afghanistan. well, we re not doing that on the media show we re going to tune into how western media and afghan media have covered this story. i want to understand the relationship between the taliban and journalists. i also want to understand whether this has revealed structural problems in how news works. has there been enough space given to context and history as many of us watching this week playing out have been asking, why is this happening? well, we ve a number of guests to help us, including cnn s chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, who, with this clip, became one
that s what he was elected to do. that s why the american people want him in that position. from a strategy point of view when you look at week i was on thv and we were all watching what would happen at the cia, specifically, the speech, standing in front of thor stas, going off on the media, saying the media was wrong about some sort of rift between him and the intelligence community, i just it was a bit of a rocky start. do you think that there are power battles playing out behind the scenes? or is this just a learning curve? listen, i think donald trump is authentic. he is who he is. for better or for worse. er going to hear and it you are going to cover it of i would much rather have somebody who is authentic than some of these picture perfect politician who is know how to pucker their lips, know the right things to say and don t do anything. this is what i think donald trump is motivated by. what about at the cia on the hallowed ground on day one. i think what people are