7. Open the door and you鈥檙e doomed
Sources, spin and powerful people.
Journalists couldn鈥檛 get to the truth with people. Some make stories possible. Others do all they can to stop them.
Revisiting difficult stories he and other journalists have had to report, 91福利社 International Editor Jeremy Bowen looks at some of the obstacles that stand between journalists and what Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein once called the 鈥榖est obtainable version of the truth鈥�.
In this episode: how journalists deal with sources, spin and powerful people.
Jeremy speaks with: journalist and former 91福利社 political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dean Baquet - until 2022 executive editor of the New York Times, 91福利社 Gaza producer Rushdi Abu Alouf, and broadcaster and former editor of The Mirror and News of The World, Piers Morgan.
Presenter: Jeremy Bowen
Producer: Georgia Catt
Assistant Producer: Sam Peach
Additional research: Rob Byrne
Series mixing: Jackie Margerum
Series Editor: Philip Sellars
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