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🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This week we're airing an interview that Brooke did while on a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. She and her husband Fred Kaplan (author of the War Stories column in Slate), sat down with Mark Hannah, host of the podcast "null of the Above," produced by the Eurasia Group Foundation.

From the Crimean War of 1853 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this year, journalists, reporters, and the media have shaped the public’s understanding of war. But do the stories we read and the photos we see provide an impartial picture of the wars they document? As Hannah recently explained in Foreign Policy, certain aspects of American war coverage—reliance on government sources and incentives to simplify geopolitics as battles between good and evil—have long compelled news organizations to tilt toward military action.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Katya, OTM Executive Producer.
0:02.5	For this week's On the Media Midweek podcast,
0:04.8	we're airing an interview conducted a couple of weeks ago
0:07.8	at the American Academy in Rome.
0:09.8	The interviewer is Mark Hannah,
0:11.8	Senior Fellow at the Eurasia Group Foundation,
0:14.4	Member of the Council on Foreign Relations,
0:17.1	and a self-professed OTM fanboy.
0:20.2	The interviewees are Brooke and our husband, Fred Kepler.
0:24.1	Brooke was on a spring fellowship at the Academy,
0:26.2	yes, that's where she's been for the last few weeks.
0:28.9	When they recorded this conversation
0:30.7	about war and the media, his Mark Hannah.
0:33.8	It's 1854.
0:35.5	The Crimean War is in full swing.
0:38.4	It's a fight which pitted Russia against the Ottoman Empire,
0:41.9	but it's drawn in some European powers, France and England.
0:46.1	London Times reporter William Howard Russell
0:48.7	was on the front lines, covering everything he saw.
0:51.8	He wrote about it with a great deal of passion and immediacy.
0:55.5	He said, at 10 minutes past 11, they swept proudly past,
1:00.0	glittering in the morning sun,
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