A Reporter’s View From Beirut, and a New Film Plumbs the Depths of Netanyahu’s Corruption

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The media landscape in Lebanon; a new film exposé on Netanyahu; the state of book censorship.

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0:00.0	I don't think we've had a single day off since the pagers. I don't think any of us expected
0:06.4	that it was just going to keep going and going. A reporter based in Beirut describes the day-to-day
0:11.7	work of covering and living through a war in her
0:15.2	own backyard. From WNYC in New York this is on the media I'm Brooke Gladstone. Also this week a new documentary about the corruption charges against Benjamin Netanyahu
0:26.0	uses leaked footage of police interrogations to help lay out the case.
0:31.0	It's not that he tried to kill evidence. He tried to kill the system.
0:37.1	He took all of us hostage in this trial.
0:39.9	Plus an intensification of book banning efforts, this time by state governments.
0:45.5	You've got a teen who has their driver's license, they're 16, they can drive themselves
0:49.2	to the public library, but they cannot borrow a book that might talk about trans people.
0:54.8	It's all coming up after this.
0:57.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Michael Lohinger's out this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:08.0	On Tuesday night, the country watched J.D. Vance and Tim Walsh make their case to be second in command, war was on top of mind
1:16.8	with the very first question.
1:18.6	Earlier today, Iran launched its largest attack yet on Israel, but that attack failed, thanks to joint US and
1:26.4	Israeli defensive action.
1:28.8	Iran is weakened.
1:30.7	But the US still considers it the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
1:35.0	Governor Walz, if you are the final voice in the situation room,
1:40.0	would you support or oppose a preemptive strike by Israel on Iran?
1:45.6	You have two minutes.
1:46.7	The question slid past the civilian recipients of that preemptive strike or that such an action
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