I agree. He has given more coverage of the Yazidis than anywhere else.
His politics appear to be a bit too establishment for my taste, but I listen often.
I’m so glad you mentioned this. I emailed Batchelor’s assistant Lee Mason - who traveled to Kurdistan ON HER OWN NICKEL - to observe the situation for herself, and report what she saw. Lee is a dear and wonderful person with no big agenda or partisan chip on her shoulder. She simply wanted to see and tell the story in behalf of suffering innocents. And of course John Batchelor gave her a microphone and the national/international forum to broadcast her shattering observations - at Christmas time. This remains for me something I can’t talk about for long, it cuts so far down to the bone, and speaks so loudly and clearly about the utterly ABSENT and VACUOUS entities masquerading as “jouralists” and news orgs.
“His politics appear to be a bit too establishment for my taste, but I listen often.”
Batchelor is definitely Republican establishment in his politics, I’ve heard him say as much on his show. And occasionally he gets fooled by a guest, like with the guy who wrote the dubious ‘Last Train from Hiroshima’ book.
All the same he does some of the best international and military coverage to be found on the radio.