News Watch: Syria, Sex Workers, 'Sickfluencers', and Gregg Wallace is sorry-not-sorry
Join Mathilda and Helena on their weekly news debriefs! We pick apart the most unhinged headlines and try to make sense of the mainstream media - helping you consume the news critically. This week, G...
5 Des 202435min
News Watch: Another general election, ICC arrests, GRT discrimination, and... Wicked
Join Mathilda and Helena on their weekly news debriefs! We'll pick apart the most unhinged headlines and try to make sense of the mainstream media - helping you consume the news critically. This week...
28 Nov 202427min
News Watch: Farmers' 'tractor tax', Trans awareness, Amsterdam attacks
Introducing: Media Storm's News Watch! Join Mathilda and Helena on their weekly news debriefs! We'll pick apart the most unhinged headlines and try to make sense of the mainstream media - helping yo...
21 Nov 202427min
ARCHIVE Assisted dying: What do terminally ill people think?
The End of Life Bill being debated in UK parliament marks a historic moment for a country with one of the most punitive approaches to assisted dying people in the liberal world. But here at Media Sto...
18 Nov 202434min
ARCHIVE ‘One man’s terrorist’: Israel, Lebanon, Iran and beyond
We bring back Media Storm's episode on 'terrorism' to reflect on the escalating war in the Middle East, and ask how geopolitical biases are playing into this week's headlines and restricting our under...
3 Okt 202448min
S4E16 Nuclear weapons: deterrence or destruction?
Nuclear weapons: peace in our times, or destruction in our future? What you think probably depends on where in the world you are - because what journalists write generally depends on where in the wor...
26 Sep 20241h 1min
S4E15 What the media won't say about the monarchy
Prince Harry’s 40th birthday, Kate Middleton back at work, and ANOTHER dramatisation of that Prince Andrew interview. Headlines about the Royals are frequent front pages - but is this actually news? ...
19 Sep 202455min
S4E14 Violence against women is a man's problem: Gisèle Pelicot, Rebecca Cheptegei, and millions more
Content warning: rape, sexual assault, and gender-based violence Headlines about gender-based violence are sadly not rare. But over the last week, two harrowing stories have sent shockwaves around th...
12 Sep 20241h 2min
