I'm Brooke Ladstone and on this week's on the media, why we need foreign news and how we can do it,

and why reporting from Mexico is so dangerous for Mexicans.

The old system said, we have a responsibility to give you news that you may not think you care about

because we think it's important and good for you.

I don't know who can be listening to me, who can be watching me.

It feels like every journalist is walking around with a target in his back.

Try to think in another country where you would have the same amount of journalists murdered.

The real story of Warriors is who runs Juarez. That's a killer

story. I want to make the case

that international news makes us more successful,

that it makes us richer, that it makes us better

problem solvers. There are mysterious

forces out there beyond our comprehension.

I speak, of course, of the terrifying phenomenon

known as other countries.

That's coming up after this.

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