i'm richard gilbert in europe. the listening post where we dig into the coverage and look at how news is reported. here are the media stories we're examining this week. a whistleblower, a system crash and the u. s. congress is on its case. facebook is under the microscope, and the me makers are having a field day collaborative journalism strikes again in the form of the pandora papers and expose a on how the rich and powerful hide their wealth and being a social media influence or in egypt. especially if you're a woman, can be a dangerous business. facebook and it c o mark sucker berg. i've never had a week quite like it last sunday, 60 minutes and american news institution broadcast an interview with a facebook whistleblower data scientist francis how him. we've heard the allegations before that the company puts profits before people. it's corporate well being before the greater good. how going put a face on that story and she had the documents to back it up. the very next day facebook's system crashed. ever had a

i'm richard gilbert and you're at the las me post where we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is covered. here are some of the media angles we're examining this week. it's the kind of news story that wiki leaks has been known to break only. it was about wiki leaks. julie in a satch and how far the cia was willing to go to put the organization out of commission. some senior trump administration officials and c i executives even discussed fascinating this on facebook is under scrutiny yet again as a new p r initiative. backfires translation is transformation how literature changes as that moves from one language to another. and after 16 years of leading the country as chancellor. yes, i'm believing germany is saying good bye to angle of merkel. it was like something straight out of a bond film, not the one the premier to in cinemas this week, but a factual story allegations of kidnapping and assassination plots discussed by american intelligence officials targeting wiki leaks founder julian satch. on september 26th, yahoo news dropped an explosive repor

hello richard gilbert and you're at the listening post where we dig into the coverage and look at how news is reported. here are the media stories we're examining this week. accountability proves elusive in lebanon, and many of the journalists covering the country are not healthy. if you're the russian government and you're tired of complaining about news coverage, you don't like. there are plenty of ordinary citizens who can do that for you. the death of former u. s. secretary of state colin powell, the coverage. the obituaries have been to kind and another country gets another news channel one. and i'll see you talking about a quick glimpse of why british viewers are tuning out rather than tuning into g b news. 14 months after large parts of beirut were leveled in a cataclysmic double explosion that went off in the cities, port the investigation into what happened that day. and why has turned ugly. the judge in charge of that investigation target better, has made some enemies, powerful ones in the political establishment. but tara's pursuit of justice and accountability, his interro