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More than a year, that had serious allegations against about incompetence and misjudgments at the cia because we were afraid that the story might compromise the lives of certain people involved in the story. so, news organizations are normally very meticulous about that. i assume the new york times was meticulous. indira, after the 9/11 attacks, cnn said it would be sensitive to releasing any information that could compromise lives or ongoing operations. that s how it was articulated. at the time. is that the basic threshold that is to say compromising lives are ongoing operations with the press agrees, as michael just said, to protect, to hold back on? and if so, do any of these complaints about these leaks seem to violate those parameters? i think the standard is exactly that. you don t want to put lives at risk. and you don t want to stop authorities from getting to whoever the perpetrator is. ....
And it gets played over and over in this endless loop on cable television. i understand cable television has 24 hours a day to fill. and so, they have to use footage. but there is a way in which how are we advancing what the public needs to know? what are we doing that is actually adding to the conversation, other than giving isis and other terrorist organizations what they want? which is a platform and notoriety and fame and it is a way that it has been proven this helps them recruit. but it is news, right? it is absolutely news. and cable news does cover news by the moment. it does. but there s better ways to do it. michael, how do you do it at npr? npr has many of the same challenges you have at cnn and fox, that we re on all the time. one of the important things is, to slow yourself down. take a breath and make sure something you have to say is ....
Back in d.c. and how will the media cover a president if they can t get to him? i have the perfect panel to ask. joining me now, michael rescu is the former new york times washington bureau chief. plenty of experience with this thing. april ryan, the washington bureau chief for the american urban radio networks and political analyst for cnn. michael, let me start we asking you this. in previous presidential trips, the u.s. press was all over the president. and the president was all over the press. and their top aides because they wanted to get this out. were you struck by how different this tone was? yeah. we actually hunted around to see if we could find a previous trip by any president of either party and we really couldn t. this is quite unusual. you ve devogot to ask if it s serving his interests. it doesn t seem to be serving the public interest in terms of understanding the president s points of view and positions. ....
Professional people in law enforcement and professional people in intelligence. each with their own need and their own service, all of whom believe they are serving the public interest. and the inability to talk with each other and discuss what the right solutions are is helping to create these situations and making it harder to bridge these cultural gaps. i want to point something out that the public should understand. and that is just to the point that you re making, michael, that in most cases, there are an ongoing and active dialogue between executives in news organizations and top officials in government, where these issues, these very issues get talked out. often, they re not agreed to. but where government officials can bring their concerns to media companies and say, look. here s what would happen if you release this and make that case. but i want to turn, now, to a related issue. and this is something else that makes coverage of this story very difficult. and that is the qua ....
Something new and something that adds to the context or understanding to the light, not the heat. i like that. slowing yourself down and taking a breath. that could be advice that we all should follow. we can all use. and very much in the news business. thank you both very much. michael, by the way, happy holiday birthday to you. i understand you re celebrating a little bit. thank you. take five. thanks much to both of you. a rare retraction at fox news. but not from shawn hean hannity. the effect of competing narratives on the network s credibility issues when we come back. a world that doesn t exist outside you. .but within you. where breakthrough science is replacing chemotherapy with immunotherapy. where we can now attack the causes of disease, not just the symptoms. where medicines once produced for all, ....