As US borders tighten, we trace the media narratives on immigrants, refugees and Muslim 'Others'.
On The Listening Post this week: As US borders tighten, we trace the media narratives on immigrants, refugees and Muslim "others". Plus, how one of France's richest men is colonising the media.
Much of the mainstream media have expressed outrage at US President Donald Trump's travel ban. But, look back over a decade of American reporting, and it's not hard to spot the role the media played in building anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States - a fear the new White House is capitalising upon now.
Contributors: Wajahat Ali, journalist; Elisabeth Anker, author, "Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom;" and Sydney Brownstone, journalist.
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