The Listening Post
Summary: A weekly programme that examines and dissects the world's media, how they operate and the stories they cover.
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Podcasts:
Listening Post examines the mega-media story ripping through Britain's media and political elite.
Revealing the lengths the country's propaganda department will go to to ensure Kim Jong-un's image is untarnished.
We examine a scandal that has seen the single voice of the Chinese state compete with a cacophony of online voices - who is winning the media battle? Plus, the new cult that is North Korea's Kim Jong-un.
The Syrian cartoonist paid the price of mocking the government with satirical drawings, but he has not given up hope. Listening Post's Richard Gizbert sat down with Ali Ferzat to discuss the power of political satire and the Syrian uprising.
Listening Post puts social media in Syria under the spotlight and asks who and how much to trust.
A relatively new member to the EU, Hungary is subject to some stringent media freedom standards. Standards critics say the country no longer meets. Listening Post's Flo Phillips went to Hungary for a first-hand account of its media battle.
Is the country's changing media landscape a significant shift or merely a ploy to encourage the lifting of sanctions? Plus, Listening Post's Flo Phillips went to Hungary for a first-hand account of its media battle.
Listening Post features how Egypt's revolutionaries collected and archived citizen videos filmed on the streets that tell a story different to that by the state media, becoming an alternative news source for Egyptians, by Egyptians.