Jay Rosen talks to World Bank, about "how the powerful cope with public scrutiny." He talks for 30 minutes and the Q&A is another 30 minutes. Worth a watch.
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Ali is talking about Andrew Sullivan using his "30 years War:Sunni vs. Shia, etc., in Iraq" analogy.