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International Wrap: Eye on World
Aired December 30, 2002 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: We want to talk more about today's attack in Yemen and the other stories that are breaking internationally with our senior international editor, David Clinch.
David, I don't know how you do what you do, because it seems like...
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: And make it look so easy, right? Well...
CALLAWAY: And (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
CLINCH: That's exactly what I wanted to talk about today. We have this horrific attack in Yemen. We still have the stories in North Korea. We still have the story in Iraq. We are -- sometimes CNN, we are our own worst enemy. People expect us to be on every single story. They do not necessarily expect other networks to be flying reporters to Yemen because of a terror attack there.
We are doing that. We need to do that. We need to be on this story. We cannot ignore the war on terror. While at the same time, being expected to, by our own producers and by our audience, to maintain our resources and maintain our reporting in North Korea and Iraq, which in some ways at the moment are much bigger, more important stories.
But the long-term effect of a story like this in Yemen, Americans being killed basically in cold blood, hunted down in their own hospital and shot dead...
CALLAWAY: Right.
CLINCH: ... the long-term effect of this, whether it's organized terror or not, is over the long-term, you will see -- and we're seeing it already. In fact, these Americans were sitting down in this hospital planning to hand this hospital over to the Yemenis, because they didn't want to be there anymore. Americans will not stay in this part of the world if they're being targeted.
CALLAWAY: And I hate to interrupt, David, but we're going to talk more about this story now with the organization directly involved in running this hospital now, and it was your desk, the International Desk, who brought this to us.
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Aired December 30, 2002 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: We want to talk more about today's attack in Yemen and the other stories that are breaking internationally with our senior international editor, David Clinch.
David, I don't know how you do what you do, because it seems like...
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: And make it look so easy, right? Well...
CALLAWAY: And (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
CLINCH: That's exactly what I wanted to talk about today. We have this horrific attack in Yemen. We still have the stories in North Korea. We still have the story in Iraq. We are -- sometimes CNN, we are our own worst enemy. People expect us to be on every single story. They do not necessarily expect other networks to be flying reporters to Yemen because of a terror attack there.
We are doing that. We need to do that. We need to be on this story. We cannot ignore the war on terror. While at the same time, being expected to, by our own producers and by our audience, to maintain our resources and maintain our reporting in North Korea and Iraq, which in some ways at the moment are much bigger, more important stories.
But the long-term effect of a story like this in Yemen, Americans being killed basically in cold blood, hunted down in their own hospital and shot dead...
CALLAWAY: Right.
CLINCH: ... the long-term effect of this, whether it's organized terror or not, is over the long-term, you will see -- and we're seeing it already. In fact, these Americans were sitting down in this hospital planning to hand this hospital over to the Yemenis, because they didn't want to be there anymore. Americans will not stay in this part of the world if they're being targeted.
CALLAWAY: And I hate to interrupt, David, but we're going to talk more about this story now with the organization directly involved in running this hospital now, and it was your desk, the International Desk, who brought this to us.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
