The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman)

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Journalist Matti Friedman worked for the Jerusalem Bureau of the Associated Press from 2006 to 2011. Looking back at that experience, Friedman argues that little has changed in the journalism landscape. Listen as Friedman discusses with EconTalk host Russ Roberts the media's obsession with Israel and how and why the media often sidelines facts in service of ideology, and the challenge of objective reporting in wartime.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done
0:24.5	going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is Monday, December 11th, 2023.
0:37.0	And my guest is journalist and author Monte Friedman.
0:44.0	This is Monte's second appearance here in Econ Talk.
0:46.4	He was last year in June of 2022,
0:48.5	talking about his wonderful book, Who By Fire.
0:51.7	In that book, he tells the story of Leonard Cohen's trip to Israel during the
0:54.9	Yom Kippur War of 1973, where Cohen played numerous concerts for soldiers at the front
1:01.0	and in the process revitalized his career.
1:03.6	Motti, welcome back to Econ Talk.
1:05.6	Thanks so much for having.
1:07.6	Before we start, I want to mention to listeners, I'm working to get some Palestinian
1:11.4	voices on Econ Talk, but it has them an easy.
1:13.4	I've written so far three people.
1:16.0	None of them have even responded.
1:17.3	There could be a lot of reasons for that.
1:18.9	I'm going to keep trying, I want you to know that I want to hear those voices
1:21.8	and we'll continue to try to get them to the program.
1:25.1	Our topic for today with UAMATT is the media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the
1:31.7	word in Gaza and the reason you're invited is that for
1:35.5	listeners about he worked in the Jerusalem Bureau of the Associated Press
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