Why Netanyahu’s latest move is a threat to a free press
KCRW's Left, Right & Center
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🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shuttered the Israel offices of news network Al Jazeera this week. The country blocked the network’s website, and Israeli police raided their studios, confiscating broadcast equipment. Americans would expect this move from an authoritarian leader, not a democratic ally. Will the United States’ relationship with Netanyahu’s country change how it views the threat to press freedom?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to another left right and center. I am David Green. I'm here with |
| 0:04.8 | Sarah Isker and Mo Lathy and the three of us actually are just back from Seattle. It was a pretty |
| 0:11.0 | cool event, the Cascade PBS ideas festival. |
| 0:14.3 | There were a bunch of shows from the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the |
| 0:18.0 | Washington Post, New Yorker, and us and we were live having conversations on stage and we're actually going to bring you |
| 0:26.0 | some of our conversation from the stage later on in this show. |
| 0:30.3 | Mo, Sarah, you both got home okay from our extravaganza? |
| 0:35.0 | It was a fun trip. |
| 0:37.0 | It was. |
| 0:38.0 | It was a really fun trip. |
| 0:39.0 | I fully agree. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's do that more often. |
| 0:42.0 | But let's do a show today and I want to dig into what |
| 0:46.5 | has kind of been a difficult question for me as I've been thinking about some of the |
| 0:50.9 | things playing out in Israel and Gaza and I wonder |
| 0:56.0 | if when a government shuts down an independent news organization because they |
| 1:01.2 | don't like the reporting is that ever okay. I lived |
| 1:06.1 | and reported in Russia and watched Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin target |
| 1:11.3 | reporters and raid newsrooms and now the Israeli government |
| 1:15.4 | has done the same thing they have shut down the news network Al Jazeera's |
| 1:18.6 | offices in the country Al Jazeera is one of the premier media outlets for the Middle East and one of few |
| 1:25.9 | outlets actually doing reporting on the ground in Gaza. |
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