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How the media brought down Viktor Orbán
Season 3 Episode 61
In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel reflect on the results of election in Hungary, and how the media coverage of Viktor Orbán’s fo…
2 months, 1 week ago
Democracy at risk: The big banks censoring free speech
Season 3 Episode 60
In this week’s episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Rainey Reitman, writer and civil liberties advocate.
She is the co-founde…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The madness of King Trump (continued)
Season 3 Episode 59
In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel discuss the reporting on the “madness of ‘King Trump’”, the war in Iran and the developments s…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Susan Glasser on Trump: ‘The big, fat, naked emperor in the room’
Season 3 Episode 58
On this week’s Media Confidential interview, New Yorker columnist Susan Glasser joins Alan and Lionel to discuss how reporters should deal with Presi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Why the US treasury secretary thinks the FT has become ‘tabloid trash’
Season 3 Episode 57
Alan and Lionel discuss the Observer after investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr, the paper’s former features writer, suggests that some of its …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Does the Washington Post have a future?
Season 3 Episode 57
In this week’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by former Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi.
The three discuss the Post’s editor…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Breaking news: the BBC’s new director-general
Season 3 Episode 56
In this episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel react to the news that Matt Brittin has been confirmed as the new director-general of the BBC.…
3 months ago
Why isn’t Ofcom investigating GB News?
Season 3 Episode 55
In today’s episode of Media Confidential Alan and Lionel are joined by Chris Banatvala. Chris was Ofcom’s founding director of standards and executiv…
3 months ago
Pete Hegseth and the future of American press
Season 3 Episode 55
In today’s Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel talk about the US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, after he told a CNN reporter he was looking forward t…
3 months, 1 week ago
What gets lost when war hits the headlines
Season 3 Episode 54
In today’s episode of Media Confidential, Alan and Lionel are joined by Margaret Sullivan, former public editor at the New York Times and writer of t…
3 months, 1 week ago