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What's it like to be attacked at a Trump rally?

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Today, What's it like to be attacked at a Trump rally?

Two stories about how journalism has had to adapt to the presidency of Donald Trump.

PART ONE
BBC cameraman Ron Skeans was attacked at a rally for President Donald Trump in Texas. A man in a Make America Great Again hat pushed him over and shouted “F*** the media”. It was a shocking incident for Ron and his colleagues but, given the frequency and ferocity of the President’s criticisms of the mainstream media, perhaps not unexpected. Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue and producer Eleanor Montague were with Ron in El Paso and explain what happened and why it matters. 

PART TWO
Michael Barbaro is the host of The New York Times’ podcast The Daily. It has provided a blueprint for a new type of journalism, a revolution in how news is reported and covered. And The Daily started around about the same time as another revolution was taking place - the election of President Donald Trump. Michael Barbaro helps us look back the Trump presidency - what we’ve learnt, what we’ve got wrong, how the world is different – and how journalists have responded.

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