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Midweek Mediawatch - Iraq anniversary, lobbying, provoking the woke & angst over activist

22:29 pm on 22 March 2023

 

Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Nights. Hayden Donnell talked to Susana Lei’ataua about how US media boosted the war in Iraq which began 20 years ago this week.

Also: lifting the lid on lobbyists’ relationship with government ministers, a new online outlet promising to provoke the woke - and pitfalls for the media covering the controversial visit of an overseas activist.    

British troops drive a Warrior tank into the north of Basra in Iraq in April 2003. Photo: AFP