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1072
Duration: 6.17 seconds
Julian Borger: I think the coverage in the British Press was far more aggressive than in the US.

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1073
Duration: 8.84 seconds
Julian Borger: The US coverage tended to be quite reverential towards the administration in a way the British press wasn't.

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1074
Duration: 19.12 seconds
Julian Borger: And that's a basic cultural difference in the newspaper worlds and the media worlds in the two countries. And that applied very much so to the buildup to the Iraq war -- and the issue of evidence for WMD -- and evidence of links between Baghdad and al Qaeda.

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1077
Duration: 7.51 seconds
Julian Borger: In Britain, the newspaper world -- and maybe the public at large -- is far more cynical about government.

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1079
Duration: 5.31 seconds
Julian Borger: It may not be true, but there is reason to believe it is true. In a way, that's turned on its head in Britain.

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1080
Duration: 17.28 seconds
Julian Borger: There's a deep-seated distrust of what you're being told by the government -- what you've been told by government agencies. And a much deeper-seated instinct to aggressively go out and find out if it's true.

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1086
Duration: 20.05 seconds
Julian Borger: In Britain, the power balance between the press -- the national press and the government is very much more weighted towards the national press than it is here. There's much more dependence among American correspondents for access than there is in Britain --

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1087
Duration: 15.78 seconds
Julian Borger: The British newspapers -- national newspapers can take the risk of really launching an aggressive attack on the government knowing that sooner or later, the government has to come back and talk to them again. And that it's in the interest of the government to come back and talk to that newspaper again.

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1109
Duration: 22.56 seconds
Julian Borger: I think professional pride has a role to play here. If a story breaks abroad, especially in Britain, and the American press haven't got there, the instinctive reaction is, "Well, Ah. Those Brits -- Who knows if it's true?" And there's almost more of a tendency to ignore the story rather than even to check it out.

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1110
Duration: 12.91 seconds
Julian Borger: And I found that again and again. If a story breaks in Britain, there's almost the automatic reaction is "Ah. It's the British press. It's tabloid. It's sensational"

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1112
Duration: 10.11 seconds
Julian Borger: The tabloid press and some of the broadsheet press in Britain can be fairly wild, and a lot of unsubstantiated stories get out.

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1113
Duration: 22.16 seconds
Julian Borger: But on top of that instinctive reaction of "Well, it must be sensational because it was in the British press" is a reluctance to check it out properly. Or an over-readiness to accept assurances from the institutions -- the White House, whatever -- that although -- "There's nothing to the story. It's just a British story. Ignore it."

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1130
Duration: 15.88 seconds
Julian Borger: One of the great stylistic differences between British and American journalism, is that in British journalism the main point -- the big-punch point -- will come in the first paragraph. American print journalism, you might not find out until the sixth or seventh.

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1145
Duration: 14.51 seconds
Julian Borger: There's one difference in the media coverage -- that the actions of the government with relation to international law are very much at the center of reporting -- certainly in Britain -- also in Europe. And they're just not at the center in the US.

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1260
Duration: 9.38 seconds
Julian Borger: There was much more questioning about the idea of a pre-emptive military and foreign policy in the British press than the American press -- and among the British people and the American people

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