10. The Big Lie
Dealing with the big lie.
When 成人快手 International Editor Jeremy Bowen questioned President Bashar al-Assad about the well-documented Syrian practice of dropping barrels full of explosives on areas held by rebels, he was confronted by a repeated lie.
The question for journalists is how they deal with that. And what happens when the lie machine is turned on the journalists themselves.
Revisiting some of the most difficult stories he and other journalists have had to report, 成人快手 International Editor Jeremy Bowen looks at some of the obstacles that stand between journalists and what Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein called the 鈥榖est obtainable version of the truth鈥�.
Jeremy speaks with: journalist Rana Rahimpour who was born in Iran but left when she was 25 to work for the 成人快手, Dean Baquet - until 2022 the executive editor of the New York Times, and Eliot Higgins - founder of Bellingcat.
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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Jeremy Bowen presents stories from the frontlines of conflict - and journalism itself.