29: Norman Pearlstine on Journalism During a Global Crisis and Jung H. Pak on the Real Power of North Korea
Politics War Room with James Carville & Al Hunt
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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Balanced, accurate and informative journalism is possibly more important now than it ever has been. Yet with financial limitations and logistical nightmares a plenty, publishing the most important stories in an rapidly changing world is no easy task. Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine expounds on the precautions his newspaper has taken, as well as the need to shift focus away from from Europe and North America. In that same vein, Brookings Institute senior fellow and former CIA analyst Jung H. Pak explains how the often maligned and misunderstood dictator of North Korea poses a greater threat to global peace than many anticipate, as laid out in her book “Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer’s Insights into North Korea’s Enigmatic Young Dictator."
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| 0:46.8 | two great guests this week who will get to it just a minute. But first, please subscribe |
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| 0:58.7 | podcast. James, before we get to our first guest, you're you're doing fine out there, right? |
| 1:03.8 | As well as it can be expected under the circumstances. That's all anybody can ask. |
| 1:09.3 | What's up? Norman Pearlstein for four decades has been one of the most prominent journalists in |
| 1:16.4 | America and extraordinary career. He was managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and chief |
| 1:21.1 | content officer for Bloomberg news where I had the privilege and the joy of working for him. |
| 1:27.0 | And for 11 years, he was the editor in chief of Time magazine. He's now the executive editor |
| 1:32.0 | of the Los Angeles Times where he and the owner Patrick Sun Chung are restoring that paper |
| 1:39.0 | to its glory days at one two Pulitzer prizes this month. Norman, thank you for joining us. |
| 1:45.9 | And tell us how you're directing coverage from your apartment I gather. |
| 1:52.8 | Los Angeles is a hotbed. The state has a mandated furlough requirement. It must really be challenging. |
| 1:59.5 | Well, it is. Our owner has a career of creating vaccines and using |
| 2:12.2 | your own cells to fight illness. And he has been totally immersed in it. He came to visit with |
| 2:23.1 | several of us on the sixth of March and just really was the first person to explain the science |
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