hello i'm richard gere's burden you're at the listening post here are the media stories that we're focusing on this week in australia 2 former prime ministers joined forces to take on the power of rupert murdoch's media empire the debate in france over secularism and free speech president macro doesn't like some of the coverage of pradesh the biggest state in india is a dangerous place from which to report and give us this day our daily coronavirus briefing announcing a vaccine and forgive governments their trespass no country is more familiar with rupert murdoch and life under one dominant media player from the land of his birth a stroke politicians there have come and gone but murdoch's influence over how the country has been governed has been a constant for nearly 6 decades the year 2020 has brought this issue to a head about 65 percent of australia's print outlets belong to murdoch's news corp astray and the coverage the company has brought to the pandemic those huge bushfires as well as the climate change issue has outraged its critics more than half a 1000000 australians have now sign

hello i'm richard gere's britain you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news we cover the way the news is covered here are the media stories we're looking at this week there's news of a possible reconciliation in the arabian gulf the end of the blockade of qatar the french president still is president sisi of egypt with a legion of on but make sure there are no french journalists there to cover it science reporters have proven their value in covering the pandemic they've also taken some heat and finally what are the chances that the planet earth will be accepted for membership in a galatic federation is there enough food to go around it looks like some people are starving based on our track record not great. it's been 3 and a half years now since 4 arab governments led by saudi arabia cut off relations with qatar and imposed a blockade on the country now there are headlines suggesting that iraq is that hacked when this rift opened up back in 2017 critics which included the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt all demanding that this network al-jazeera be shut down wh

from texas but richard gere was up here. he was up here actually standing up against chinese abuses and urging anyone who would listen to stand up with him. you know richard gere has not made a single hollywood movie in decades. why? because he dared stand with tibet, and the hollywood billionaires blackballed richard gere. if you speak out for tibet, if you do what the senator from connecticut just suggested and discuss the human rights abuses, it doesn't matter that richard gere used to be an a-list hollywood blockbuster actor. boom, his career is dead because no studio would produce a movie with him because he spoke the truth. and, by the way, my bill presents zero barriers to someone actually making a documentary on the human rights abuses in china because presumably if you're making that documentary, you wouldn't allow the chinese communist government to censor it. i don't know what kind of documentaries the senator from connecticut is familiar with, but i'm not family with documentaries done on tyrants and concentratio