This week on the Listening Post, Richard Gizbert analyses just what the coverage of the Basra pullout tells us about the evolution of the media's attitude towards the war in Iraq. Also in this show, we explore the ethics of airing hostage videos on television. Different crises around the world have increasingly involved the taking of hostages and broadcasters are ever more faced with the dilemma of when to put a hostage video on air and when not to.
