Ep 14 - The Whistle Blowback

Australia is sending a whistleblower to jail after documents he leaked to the ABC revealed war crimes in Afghanistan, making the whistleblower the only person to be imprisoned after the shocking revelations.

Why do Australians have to risk everything to reveal military and government injustice?

Plus we look at Karoline Leavitt, the 2019 college grad and MAGA zealot hurling insults at everyone from journalists to world leaders and U.S. judges as Donald Trumps press secretary and shouty mouthpiece.

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Broadcast journalist Nicole Chvastek and Australia's pre-eminent journalism ethics expert Denis Muller seek out the media industry's good, bad and ugly, taking you behind the headlines in their revealing podcast Truth, Lies and Media. New episodes each Wednesday.

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