When is National Security News Unfit to Print?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2006
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.4 | When is national security news unfit to print? |
| 0:14.7 | Hello again, I'm Orman Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.9 | A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.5 | The Republican majority in Congress has condemned the media |
| 0:24.2 | for disclosing how the Bush administration follows terrorist money. |
| 0:28.5 | Today's Wall Street Journal weighs in |
| 0:30.3 | with an editorial attacking the New York Times |
| 0:32.8 | for obstructing the war on terror. |
| 0:35.2 | But in the Times op-ed, |
| 0:37.0 | former national security aides say the Times just printed a secret the terrorists already knew. On to the point, the arguments are as old as the First Amendment, when does a free press endanger national security? Are the media being bashed for political gain? On reporters' notebook later on, is it safe to launch the space shuttle? |
| 0:55.9 | First, here's the news. |
| 1:00.2 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica |
| 1:04.5 | and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, |
| 1:07.7 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation |
| 1:09.9 | and the John D. and Catherine |
| 1:11.4 | T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:12.9 | Hello again. |
| 1:13.4 | I'm on me back with To the Poet. |
| 1:15.0 | Republicans in Congress have denounced the media for exposing how terrorist money is tracked. |
| 1:19.6 | The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are in an editorial battle over what news is fit or unfit to print. |
| 1:25.8 | On To The Poit has the free press endangered national security? |
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