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Currents - Episode 2: Trump and the Fourth Estate
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- On Geopolitics
- Published
- Aug 1, 2025
- Duration seconds
- 2593
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Summary
John Nilsson-Wright talks to Steve Herman — until recently Voice of America’s Chief National Correspondent — about the Trump administration’s relationship with private and public media organisations in the United States. They consider the threats to democratic freedoms in the US, the role of public broadcasting domestically and as part of US foreign policy during the Cold War as well as today, and also the question of what individual citizens can do to protect their civil liberties at a critical juncture in American history.