Episode 463 • • 1:09:30 - 1:12:39
463: Dead Hand of Bureaucracy
Ben Wiedemann, Yellow Cake Reporting and CNN Fixers
CNN senior correspondent Ben Wiedemann is criticized after a hot-mic moment captures him joking with a producer during a "scary" report from Gaza. The hosts trace Wiedemann's career from a local fixer in Jordan to the reporter who originally broke the debunked story about "yellow cake" uranium in Libya. They argue that many high-level correspondents lack traditional journalistic credentials and function as state mouthpieces.