"Cover Ups" - Brooke Gladstone - On the Media - WNYC

Description:Both the 2008 and 2013 versions of this segment on WNYC's "On the Media.""Should reporters lie or misrepresent themselves in order to get an important story? Undercover reporting has long been an effective, exciting and, some would argue, necessary journalistic tool. But at a time when the public's trust in the press is waning, can journalists afford to lie? . . . Brooke [Gladstone] talks with undercover reporters and their critics." (Interviewed: Howard Kurtz, Bill Wasik, Brooke Kroeger, Pam Zekman, Mike Wallace, Eileen Murphy, Ken Silverstein, Jack Fuller, Chris Hansen)

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