News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-07-30/news-roundup-hour-2
The administration reacts to the WikiLeaks' revelations, South Korea and the U.S. wrap up four days of war games and a report reveals how reconstruction funds for Iraq have been spent. A panel of journalists joins guest host Susan Page for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
Guests
David Sanger
chief Washington correspondent for "The New York Times," author of "The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power."
Nancy Youssef
Pentagon correspondent, McClatchy newspapers.
Kevin Whitelaw
defense and foreign policy editor, Congressional Quarterly.
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Reg. wikileaks --i arrived at the pentagon in august 1968 and received a top secret clearance. The 1st TS document i saw was on operation steel tiger - the bombing of laos. Since the north vietnamese were being bombed they knew about it; therefore the russians and chinese knew about it and the laotiians should have had a pretty good idea when it happened. Years later i worked with code word projects- including one that was so screwed up it went code word to cover up the ever increasing costs with ever decreasing performance. The real question should be is why 99.5% of the classified junk even classified!
I'm surprised to hear someone, anyone, pronounce "Pakistan" as such (i.e. not Bah-kis-tahn).
Strange how, on NPR, the names for people, places and things are prounounced ethnically accurate for certain cultures and languages only...but not others.
I've yet to hear, on NPR, Berlin pronounced "Bare-leen" as Germans pronounce it.
Hmmm...
Re: Wikileaks:
It seems to me that we are being distracted from the real issue. The fundamental questions we should be asking is why does our government continue misrepresent the facts to us? It's not about other countries and individuals loosing trust in the United States because they didn't keep documents secure; the question is why should anyone be willing to trust the United States government when it is involved in misrepresentations and cover-ups.
The latest attempt to spin the story to say that this is old news and we have since 'turned the corner' should not be taken at face value – especially in light of this additional evidence that clearly shows they have not been truthful with us.
I hope NPR doesn't fall in-line and become another mouthpiece of those that misrepresent the truth. Transparency and real journalism must prevail in order to restore trust – not just for other countries and their people, but for the people of the United States as well.
Wikileaks is Narcissism-Journalism, the need of a generation to be protagonists. I have the feeling if Bush was president we wouldn't be having this debate, and Wikileaks would be given the Nobel Peace Prize.
When one of your guests, or famously Neal Conan, starts stammering, repeating words several times in a sentence, I get so frustrated that I have to turn the radio off. Whether it's caused by a disorganized mind or a disability, it is so distracting that the thoughts they are trying to express are completely lost on me.
Why not have some classes for guests and hosts on that subject? I know I'm not the only one who clicks off the radio when stammering begins.