Bonus - The CIA and Time Magazine w/ Simon Willmetts (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Derek chat with Simon Willmetts, associate professor of intelligence studies at Leiden University, about his recent piece for Diplomatic History, "The CIA and Time Magazine: Journalistic Ethics and Newsroom Dissent". The group discusses the subfield of intelligence history, public awareness of intelligence organizations, why the scope Time and Life magazines in the mid-20th century and why the CIA would want to collude with such publications, the development of journalistic ethics in light of journalistic connections with the national security state, and more. Further reading: George Herkin, The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington Kathryn McGarr, City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington Hugh Wilford, The CIA: An Imperial History Subscribe now for the full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Prestigeon to your soul.
0:07.0	Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson.
0:27.7	And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast today, Simon Wilmitz. Simon's an associate professor in the Intelligence and Security Research Group at Leiden Universities Institute for Security and Global
0:39.4	Affairs.
0:40.1	And I've actually been to Leiden University.
0:42.4	It's really nice.
0:43.4	And it's where the Puritans were initially forced out before they came to the United States,
0:49.6	right?
0:49.9	There's a big, big thing on the church there that they're like they were here for four months
0:55.0	before also getting kicked out because they were too annoying, sending the States of the next
1:00.5	250 years. But anyway, Simon, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me on. It's a pleasure
1:05.4	to be here. And we've invited you on to talk about your recent article in diplomatic history,
1:10.4	titled the CIA and Time Magazine Journalistic Ethics and Newsroom Descent.
1:15.2	So let's start at the beginning, Simon.
1:16.7	What's a magazine?
1:18.5	Just kidding.
1:21.1	For the kids out there.
1:22.8	Let's get really basic.
1:24.5	For the kids out there.
1:26.1	But I do want to begin talking about intelligence history because it's kind of interesting
1:32.3	because tell me if my perception is incorrect.
1:35.2	But in the field itself, it is very much a subfield.
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