Media can responsibly inform the public by exposing hidden negotiations.

Evidence

Hints of how the media, for example, might responsibly use their enormous capability for public information were to be found in the three-hour special broadcast by ABC, “The Secret Negotiations,” on January 22 and 28, 1981. In exposing the various methods used to free the hostages, the broadcasts put forth an impressive amount of unknown material, little of it more telling than those moments when unconscious and deep-seated attitudes were suddenly illuminated. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 96

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