Katie Halper
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“Exact Same Sh*t”: Zohran Mamdani’s Charm HIDES The Truth
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19:46Now PlayingJournalist and media critic Sana Saeed discusses her viral essay on why charismatic leaders like Zohran Mamdani and Barack Obama don't save the movement, but "polish the gravestones" of empire.
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Sana Saeed is a DC-based journalist and media critic with over fifteen years of experience covering how U.S. news media shapes public understanding of foreign policy, war, national security, Islam and Palestine. She spent ten years as an on-camera correspondent and senior producer at AJ+, where she created Backspace and The Israeli Occupation Style Guide - two series dedicated to media literacy in journalism; her work on U.S. news media and the coverage of Palestine, before and after the genocide, has been influential. She now works independently, producing reporting, essays, and video work examining the relationship between media, narrative, and American imperial power. you can follow her on X, on Instagram at Sanaface and become a subscriber to her work on her Substack, Views My Own.
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