Dr. Janice Stein

So, you know, Tom Fletcher, who's the coordinator for the UN, described it as, which is a horrific phrase, he called it a laboratory of atrocities.

And you're right.

You know, who's talking about it?

So, look, I have to say the Western media...

drive so much of global attention because, you know, these are the best news organizations in the world.

They are the ones with the best tradition of objective reporting.

And so in a funny way, where the United States is, where Europeans are, is where reporters go.

You know that when we had forces in Afghanistan, we had terrific coverage.

And when we have them in Europe, which we do now in Latvia, Canadian reporters will go there.

But when they come home,

We don't go back and we don't spend a lot of time.

You know, Brian Stewart was a rare exception in that way that he went to Ethiopia and wrote about famine when almost nobody else was there.

So I think that's a big part of it.

Look, the second is who are the powers who are supplying both sides here?

You know, one is the former military government that seized power in a coup.

The other is the inheritors of the Janjaweed militia that committed the, frankly, genocide in Darfur.

So who's pouring the money in the arms?

The Emirates.

the Saudis, the Egyptians, and the Russians.

In none of those countries do we have vibrant media that are free enough to criticize their regimes.