Tookie we listen to what these the proposal. For a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter how does it. Shut down crying ok thats the whole thing is how do you protect. The life of this is how i came back here fuck up by. The revolutionary guard. Hello im Richard Burton youre at the listening post here are some of the media stories that were covering this week iran the showdown with the u. S. And how the accidental downing of a passenger aircraft has changed the narrative there portugal and racism the countrys news media and the discourse of denial the Global Warming hysteria in australia the murdoch empire is taking some heat for its coverage of the wildfires there and the practical joke on a Foreign Correspondent fell for for a worthy cause weve been told that this is quite a dangerous there has been known to attack people to draw near consider what it must be like to be in charge of communications for the iranian government right now
there and the practical joke on a foreign correspondent felt for for a worthy cause we ve been told that this is quite a dangerous there has been known to attack people hold a drop here consider what it must be like to be in charge of communications for the iranian government right now or what it s like to be iranian trying to sort fact from political fiction 2 weeks ago an american drone strike killed the country s most important military figure general custom soleimani that provided tehran with an opening a chance to rewrite the political narrative to steer iranians away from protesting over an oppressive government and the state of their economy to rally them to back their islamic leaders against the americans and for a few days that seemed to be working then that passenger plane was shot down over tehran and iran s leaders had a decision to make for 3 days they chose to lie to the public before finally coming clean admitting that they took that plane down by mistake irani