Links to a report from National Public Radio and to a conversation from the Guardian (USA); other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (MEDIA 8-12-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  WEST BANK, GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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FROM AUG. 13  Committee to Protect Journalists CEO discusses killing of journalists in Gaza. Reported by Leila Fadel | NPR  Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks about the targeted killing of six journalists in Gaza, including prominent Al Jazeera reporter Anas al-Sharif. Click HERE to listen and read.

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FROM AUG. 8  ‘Nobody believes in the future anymore’: How to wake up from the post-truth nightmare, by Adam Curtis and Ari Aster, with Paul MacInnis | The Guardian (USA)  From the intro: “Paranoia is exploited to control us. Movies are groomed to flatter us. And trauma has been twisted to make us blame ourselves. How can we make sense of our lives? Film-makers Curtis and Aster try to navigate the chaos.” READ MORE . . .

NOTE: Links to all segments of Curtis’s BBC documentary series “Shifty” are accessible, at least for now, by typing “Paul MacInnis CBC Adam Curtis Ari Aster” into a search engine.

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