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12/03/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Faking It: Trump and the Media

Alan Rusbridger asks how America's journalists are reporting on their new president.

Alan Rusbridger, former editor of the Guardian, asks how American journalists are covering a president who describes them as 'among the most dishonest human beings on earth'.

Alan Rusbridger, former Editor of The Guardian, talks to journalists and news consumers across America in dispatches from President Trump's 'running war' with the US media Alan asks why the media has been cast as Trump's 'opposition party', how they are responding to the dilemmas and opportunities the new administration brings and whether the President is right to claim that the 'mainstream media' has lost the trust of the American people.

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