because of course none of the press were allowed in the room. so how easy is it forjournalists who specialise in diplomacy to sort fact from spin? in fact, do the politicians even want them there? unless of course it s to snap them posing grandly on the beach in those ubiquitous family photos. let me introduce you to my wonderful panel of guests. patrick wintour is diplomatic editor at the guardian. naomi o leary is europe correspondent for the irish times. rym momtaz is senior france correspondent at politico and steven erlanger is the pulitzer prize winning journalist and currently chief diplomatic correspondent at the new york times. steven, you ve been covering this week s international diplomacy from your base in brussels. tell us, are you the only journalist left in the city? naomi is here too. part of the problem is that covid has made it very hard to travel. so if you want to go bouncing around, you need to have a whole separate nose for all of the tests. and you have
now on bbc news, the media show. hello. the g7 summit, the nato summit, putin, biden, the world s biggest leaders were face to face in a series of meetings this week. these are some of the most intensely scrutinised meetings you can imagine. and you will have to imagine because of course none of the press were allowed in the room. so how easy is it forjournalists who specialise in diplomacy to sort fact from spin? in fact, do the politicians even want them there? unless of course it s to snap them posing grandly on the beach in those ubiquitous family photos. let me introduce you to my wonderful panel of guests. patrick wintour is diplomatic editor at the guardian. naomi o leary is europe correspondent for the irish times. rym momtaz is senior france correspondent at politico and steven erlanger is the pulitzer prize winning journalist and currently chief diplomatic correspondent at the new york times. steven, you ve been covering this week s international diplomacy from your
now on bbc news, the media show. the world s biggest leaders have been face to face in a series of meetings. these are some of them is intensely scrutinised meetings can imagine. but as always, nobody from the press was allowed in the room. so how easy is it for journalists to sort the fact from the spin? and do the politicians even want them there? u nless unless it is to snap them posing grandly on the beach. let me introduce you to my panel of guests. steven, you ve been covering this week s international diplomacy from your base in brussels. tell us, are you the only journalist left in the city? naomi is here too. part of the problem is that covid has made it very hard to travel. so if you want to go bouncing around, you need to have a whole separate nose for all of the tests. and you have to worry about quarantine and we have enough people on the white house plane and so on and we had someone in london to cover cornwall and moscow covered geneva and i was here in brussel
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