hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're tracking this week the war in the yemen will the latest coalition offensive finally get this story the kind of coverage. it deserves journalism in syria suffers from a different kind of problem does the truth even stand a chance that a brutal murder of a kashmiri editor sends a chilling message to anyone trying to report from the region and an american cartoonist becomes collateral damage in donald trump's war against the us media he's out of a job.

hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're tracking this week the war in yemen will the latest coalition offensive finally get this story the kind of coverage it deserves journalism in syria suffers from a different kind of problem does the truth even stand a chance that a brutal murder of a kashmiri editor sends a chilling message to anyone trying to report from the reach and an american cartoonist becomes collateral damage in donald trump's war against the u.s. media he's out of a job. for a conflict described by amnesty international as the forgotten war yemen has found itself in an unusual place over the past week in the news the reason for that is the assault by the combined forces of saudi arabia and the united arab emirates on the port city of hold data the u.n. already calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that port is where yemenis get seventy percent of their aid supplies while it's the saudi led coalition that is wage this war from the air over the past three years hitting multiple civilian targets many media

hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're covering this week donald trump diplomacy and the triumph of spectacle over substance india whatsapp and mob rule the consequences turned deadly once again fixers and the news business they are names you will seldom hear but they are central to the coverage of all kinds of stories and the white house produces a propaganda video worthy of pyongyang and rolls it out for kim jong. il. in the television and internet age there's always an element of stagecraft to diplomacy and summit meetings the photo ops the soundbites the resulting communiques however two indelible images from two different summits could not have told more contrast in stories u.s. president donald trump defying vanna walking out on his allies at the g. seven summit in canada then getting down to business with north korean dictator kim jong un who trump described as talented journalists found themselves covering a president who once again seemed to put more thought into the spectacle and the twitter feed he has at his disposal th

hello i'm richard gilbert and you're at the listening post here are some of the media stories we're coveringthis week turkey president party wins the election with more than a little help from their friends in the news business and the challenges and dangers that come with trying to cover political unrest in the democratic republic of the congo as elections approach in pakistan and certain news outlets are coming under pressure and it looks like it's from the military. and musical lament from iran for a social media platform the government has taken down. one turkish president red chip type delivered his reelection victory speech last week he spoke of one nation one flag one state he could have taken that a bit further and talked about one media and one voice his own because that's the way the campaign was covered the main state owned t.v. channel t r t acted as if it were state run for every minute of coverage it gave to one's main rival it gave the president ten and privately owned broadcasters were much better since coming to power in two thousand and three air to one has overseen a restr