Control through chaos: How Trump is playing the media | The Listening Post

It’s an alarming moment in US politics. Developments have been fast and furious, with Donald Trump flooding the news space at a rate journalists find hard to handle. His plan for an American takeover of the Gaza Strip, the reshaping of federal agencies and the unchecked power handed to Musk all beg a question: Who is really running the country?

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Danielle Moodie – Host, The Danielle Moodie Show
Jon Allsop – Journalist, Columbia Journalism Review
Max Tani – Media editor, Semafor
Mehdi Hasan – Editor-in-chief, Zeteo News

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Ana Aremeyaw Anas – Head, Network of African Investigative Reporters and Editors
Eugene Ndi – Journalist
Kah Walla – Politician and social activist
Paul Chouta – Exiled journalist

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