Name: Clarissa Ward: Authoritarian Regimes Around the World Feel Emboldened
Uploaded: 2021-03-02T18:26:18.000Z
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MY NEXT GUEST IS CNN'S CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT AND

A PEABODY-AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST WHO HAS SPENT MORE

THAN 15 YEARS REPORTING FROM FRONT LINES ALL OVER THE WORLD.

>> Stephen: ESPECIALLY BEING HERE FROM LONDON.

>> Stephen: YOU GREW UP BOTH IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN THE

AND I WATCHED, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF CNN, AND I SEE YOU ON THERE

SOMETIMES YOU SOUND LIKE AN AMERICAN, AND IN THE MIDDLE OF

THE SENTENCE, IT WILL SWITCH OVER AND SOUND BRITISH.

IS THAT A TOGGLE YOU CAN SWITCH OR JUST SOME WORDS YOU CAN'T GET

>> YOU KNOW, I'VE TRIED OVER THE YEARS TO REFINE IT.

I OFTEN SAY IT'S LIKE BEING BILINGUAL BUT IT'S UTTERLY

WHEN I'M ON THE PHONE WITH AN AMERICAN, I SOUND TO ITLY

I WOULD BE GETTING SHOT AT AND PEOPLE WOULD BE, LIKE, WHERE IS

I WOULD SAY, PEOPLE, FOCUS, I'M AMERICAN.

YOU HAVE INTERVIEWED JIHADISTS, EMBEDDED WITH THE TALIBAN,

SURVIVED BOMBINGS, REPORTED FROM COUNTLESS WAR ZONES.

RAFF RISKING YOUR RIFE TO -- AFTER RISKING YOUR LIFE TO TRY

TO BRING THE VIEWING PUBLIC THE TRUTH ABOUT A SITUATION, HOW

DOES IT FEEL TO HEAR WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING DESCRIBED BY SOME

CORNERS TO HAVE THE INTERNET AND POLITICS AS FAKE NEWS?

IT'S DEPRESSING, IT'S DEMORALIZING, ESPECIALLY WHEN

YOU'RE ON A FRONT LINE SOMEWHERE RISKING YOUR LIFE TO TELL OTHER

I ALSO THINK IT CAN BE INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS NOT JUST

FOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES AS WESTERN JOURNALISTS BUT ALSO

LOOKING AROUND SOME OF THE CORNERS OF THE EARTH THAT I

SPEND TIME, LOCAL JOURNALISTS IN COUNTRIES ARE AUTHORITARIAN

REGIMES FEEL EMBOLDENED WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS THAT

PRESS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE OR USES THIS SORT OF MONIKER OF

THOSE PEOPLE MIGHT END UP IN PRISON OR BEING PUNISHED FOR

BUT MORE BROADLY SPEAKING, STEPHEN, I THINK THIS IS REALLY

ULTIMATELY, IT'S A RALLYING CRY, OKAY, AND IT'S TIME FOR

JOURNALISTS TO ROLL UP THEIR SLEEVES AND MAN UP AND, YES,

OKAY, WE CAN FEEL SORRY FOR OURSELVES THAT THIS IS BEING

LEVELED AT US, BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS A MOMENT WHERE WE REALLY NEED

TO STEP IN AND STAND UP HERE, BECAUSE ONE OF THE GREATEST

THREATS FACING OUR SOCIETY RIGHT NOW IS THE CONSTANT BARRAGE OF

MISINFORMATION, DISINFORMATION THAT IS READILY BEING GOBBLED

UP, SEEMINGLY BY A GROWING NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.

AND THAT'S A REAL THREAT, THAT IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT PEOPLE BELIEVING IN LIES, WHICH IS

DANGEROUS, IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE NO LONGER BELIEVING IN TRUTH.

AND ONCE YOU HAVE A SOCIETY THAT NO LONGER BELIEVES IN TRUTH,

THAT IS UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION, THAT

DOESN'T EVEN AGREE THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING AS TRUTH, THAT'S

SOCIETY IS UNIQUELY VULNERABLE TO TOTALITARIANISM.

IT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

THIS IS A REAL THREAT AND IT'S TIME FOR US TO MAN UP AND STEP

>> Stephen: WELL, YOU'VE GOT A NEW BOOK CALLED "ON ALL FRONTS:

I'LL PUT IT RIGHT OVER THERE SO WE CAN GET THE PICTURE.

THERE'S SOME EXTRAORDINARY STORIES HERE OF SOME OF THE

ISN'T FEAR USEFUL EVOLUTIONARILY SPEAKING?

PEOPLE SAY YOU'RE SO FEARLESS, I SAY WHAT A LOT OF RUBBISH.

I'M PETRIFIED HALF THE TIME AND IF YOU'RE NOT YOU'RE STUPID

BECAUSE YOU'RE IN SITUATIONS WHERE YOUR LIFE IS AT RISK.

FEAR PLAYS A ROLE EVOLUTIONARILY IN DETERMINING AND DICTATING HOW

YOU GET YOURSELF OUT OF THOSE SITUATIONS.

BUT, YES, I FEEL DEEP FEAR AND THAT FEAR IS AN IMPORTANT

REMINDER TO HAVE THE ENORMITY OF SOME OF THE STUFF WE'RE TRYING

>> Stephen: IN 2019, YOU EMBEDDED WITH THE TALIBAN IN

AS A WOMAN IN SOCIETY WHO HOLDS WOMEN NOT AS EQUAL, EVEN WORSE

THAN THAT, EVEN ALMOST AS CHATTEL PROPERTY, WHAT WAS THAT

EXPERIENCE LIKE FOR YOU AS A FEMALE JOURNALIST?

>> I THINK AS A FEMALE JOURNALIST WHEN YOU'RE DOING

THIS WORK, YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO LEAVE A LOT OF YOUR

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