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What's behind this hostility towards journalists?

What's behind this hostility towards journalists?

Update: 2025-08-28
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Outrage in Lebanon after the U.S. envoy calls journalists 'animalistic'. Tom Barrack's comments come at a time when the U.S. president has stepped up his attacks on the media. So, what's behind this hostility towards journalists? And are there global implications? 

In this episode:

  • Rami Khouri - Distinguished Fellow at the American University of Beirut. 
  • Jodie Ginsberg - CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists. 
  • Rick Perlstein - Journalist and Historian, specialising in the roots and rise of American conservatism.

Host: James Bays 

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What's behind this hostility towards journalists?

What's behind this hostility towards journalists?

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