Democracy Now is mentioned in a US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks that cites our 2005 report on a deadly raid in the poor neighborhood of Cité Soleil by United Nations forces. "You accurately reported on what was going on and the embassy was alarmed by it," says our guest, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin. "What they were upset about is there wasn't PR push back on Democracy Now! by the U.N." Another cable shows U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called embassies around the world to tell them to "get the narrative right" with editors and fight negative portrayals of U.S. deployment in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
To download the podcast, read the transcript, and for more Democracy Now! reports on WikiLeaks visithttp://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/24/leaked_wikileaks_cable_2005_democracy_now
To download the podcast, read the transcript, and for more Democracy Now! reports on WikiLeaks visithttp://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/24/leaked_wikileaks_cable_2005_democracy_now
