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On the Media

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🗓️ 1 June 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.
0:06.3	And I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:07.8	Osama bin Laden is dead. Happy days. Happy days, everybody. This is the greatest night of my career.
0:15.5	That's Geraldo Rivera last Sunday night, breaking the story to Fox News viewers that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
0:23.3	About an hour later, at 1135 p.m., 56.5 million Americans watched President Obama deliver the
0:31.6	news officially. As Obama finished his speech and walked away from the camera down a long hallway,
0:37.6	reporters everywhere started digging for details.
0:41.0	By midweek, the White House had released more information about the operation, much of which
0:45.7	was corrected.
0:47.2	Ben Laden was armed when he was killed.
0:49.7	And then he wasn't.
0:50.9	Ben Laden used his own wife as a human shield.
0:57.5	No, he hadn't. CIA director Leon Panetta said that a photo would be released of Ben Laden's corpse, and then the administration
1:02.4	said that actually it hadn't yet decided. Then it did decide, not to, White House Press
1:09.6	Secretary Jay Carney. The fact of the matter is, as the president described House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
1:11.2	The fact of the matter is, as the president described, these are graphic photographs of someone
1:15.4	who was shot in the face, or the head, rather, and it is not in our national security interests
1:20.4	to allow those images to become icons to rally opinion against the United States. And further, because he believes,
1:30.8	as he said so clearly, this is not who we are. Or are we? Fifty-six percent of the people
1:36.5	polled by CNN said the picture should be released. Presumably, if you polled pundits,
1:42.2	that number would be even higher, or at least louder.
1:45.5	They will be leaked at some point by somebody, and it will be embarrassing to the United States.
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