when more i'm joined by richard gere ago z.m. the head of the original study center a foreign policy think tank joins me from richard thanks and welcome to the program what does this recognition mean for mania why is the u.s. recognition so significant. well in many ways this is a reassuring moral but indication of a long campaign for genocide recognition as someone who moved to armenia from the united states myself this is a case of moral clarity and giving up of the greed of closure at the same time this genocide recognition by the us is also about the us not just our media in terms of like many western countries even australia reexamining but colonial past and i see this as a move in a positive direction in terms of helping turkey get more sincerely face the difficulty of the past. what do you think this recognise recognition will do to the relations between the 2 nato countries u.s. and techie well in many ways the u.s. administration has called the block of turkey in the face of years of disingenuous geopolitical excuses and

hello i'm richard gere's bird and you're watching a special edition of the listening post this week we're veering out of the mainstream and looking at journalism that broke the rules pushed boundaries and in some cases redefined we're going to explore the work and the legacies of 3 such innovators tom wolfe haasan kahn a funny and gabrielle got to see america as an american a palestinian and a colombian all of whom started out as journalists but went on to straddle the worlds of media literature politics and activists. their work spawned new genres of reporting coining terms such as new journalism resistance literature and magical realism that's one of the reasons that in their day the reviews weren't all good they still aren't largely because their journalism defied convention and categorise ation but the years since have proven that they would inspire future generations to consider new ways of presenting new stories we begin with a writer who saw in the world of fiction writing tools that journalists could use tom wolfe. i have no idea who coined the term the new journalism or even when

hello i'm richard gere's virgin you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news we cover the way the news is covered here or the media stories we're examining this week message in a bottle amazon goes under the microscope over working conditions and the unions drive to get employees organized. the world health organization releases a report on the origins of the coronavirus findings that raise as many questions as they answer well read the talking heads and the bookshelves that just credibility plus a traffic jam in the suez canal through the suez gulf looking pretty heavy no we're going anywhere we have a full report and. we begin with one of the world's biggest technology driven companies amazon and the workers in alabama who have just voted on whether or not to unionize the votes which were mailed in due to the pandemic are still being counted but if those employees choose to join a union theirs will be the 1st amazon warehouse in the u.s. to do so and could well create a domino effect the stakes are high we're talking about a trillion dollar company and the battle lines h