Today we analyse the Western media more broadly after last week’s focus on Ukraine reporting. The Western Bubble is deeply ingrained in media behaviour: foreign policy reporting is skewed favourably towards pro-democratic and liberal movements while domestic reporting is insufficiently critical of flaws within democratic establishment.

In this episode we are playing segments from the following three videos and quote from the following NY Times article:

Video 1: 0:00-0:26; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8c8PsHSTPM

Video 2: 5:29-6:00; https://youtu.be/lDSu8wlQG6c?t=329

Video 3: https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/850213433664458752?s=20&t=AnoHlMjVNq7YYiQN--uxNA

New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

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