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International Wrap, Eye on World: World AIDS Day
Aired December 01, 2003 - 06:34 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're also covering World AIDS Day. It's critically important. AIDS kills millions across the globe. Yet, it's difficult to get people to pay attention, even on this day.
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, is with us now.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Carol, good morning.
You know, we make it look easy sometimes. We're live from Samarra, the press conference from there. We'll be live from Geneva and Jerusalem today, the Israeli peace accords, fighting it out between each other.
But World AIDS Day is a tremendous challenge for us, and I think for all journalists -- how to get people to get care? After all of these years, after all of these stories that you've seen, pictures that you've seen, dying babies, stories of individuals, how do you tell the story in a human way of the effect of AIDS in the world today? In Africa, in Asia, millions and millions of people are affected, potentially tens of millions in the future, without further action.
We have reporters on this story in every corner of the globe today, and you will see those reports, I hope -- and I am pushing producers -- today on all of our networks to get those stories on our air today, regardless of what's going on in Iraq or Israel or elsewhere, not just facetiously, because we should care...
COSTELLO: Well, you know, I can hear people out there, David, saying, but we do care. So, what are you talking about?
CLINCH: Well, I understand, but you understand caring and actually doing something about it are two different things. And, you know, it's not our job to change governments' minds. It's not our job to make people give money or anything like that. But it is our job to tell the story in a way that is engaging, that actually gives you a human angle on the story, and not just figures of how many thousands or how many millions, but to tell the story of the individuals who suffer with this virus and disease every day.
And it's a challenge, I tell you. We have dozens of reporters on the story, but each and every one of them we've had to scrape again and again and again deeper to get a story that really catches peoples' attention.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, David. We appreciate it. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
Aired December 1, 2003 - 06:34 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're also covering World AIDS Day. It's critically important. AIDS kills millions across the globe. Yet, it's difficult to get people to pay attention, even on this day.
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, is with us now.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Carol, good morning.
You know, we make it look easy sometimes. We're live from Samarra, the press conference from there. We'll be live from Geneva and Jerusalem today, the Israeli peace accords, fighting it out between each other.
But World AIDS Day is a tremendous challenge for us, and I think for all journalists -- how to get people to get care? After all of these years, after all of these stories that you've seen, pictures that you've seen, dying babies, stories of individuals, how do you tell the story in a human way of the effect of AIDS in the world today? In Africa, in Asia, millions and millions of people are affected, potentially tens of millions in the future, without further action.
We have reporters on this story in every corner of the globe today, and you will see those reports, I hope -- and I am pushing producers -- today on all of our networks to get those stories on our air today, regardless of what's going on in Iraq or Israel or elsewhere, not just facetiously, because we should care...
COSTELLO: Well, you know, I can hear people out there, David, saying, but we do care. So, what are you talking about?
CLINCH: Well, I understand, but you understand caring and actually doing something about it are two different things. And, you know, it's not our job to change governments' minds. It's not our job to make people give money or anything like that. But it is our job to tell the story in a way that is engaging, that actually gives you a human angle on the story, and not just figures of how many thousands or how many millions, but to tell the story of the individuals who suffer with this virus and disease every day.
And it's a challenge, I tell you. We have dozens of reporters on the story, but each and every one of them we've had to scrape again and again and again deeper to get a story that really catches peoples' attention.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, David. We appreciate it. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
