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...Rubin also blamed the 24-hour news cycle for the antagonism between media and government. Reporters now require government responses before officials have time to analyze events, he said...
...Jonathan Mirsky, a fellow at the Shorenstein Center and a former East Asia editor for the London Times sitting in the audience, disagreed with Rubin, saying reporters' cynicism came from their negative experiences with official sources...
...Rubin responded that the government is now much more open and truthful with the press than it was at the time of Vietnam...
...premise that government spokesmen lie is an old notion," Rubin said. "You should not assign to the current situation the experiences you had in the past...
...Rubin said State Department officials are trying to combat this attitude by speaking throughout the country to make the public aware about the effect of foreign affairs on American interests...