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Breaking the Set (2012)

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How it feels

An American journalist hosts a show that covers political and social issues. She reports on topics like corporate media and government policies.

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What happens

Abby Martin (born September 6th, 1984) is an American journalist, television presenter, and activist. She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013), and co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013). She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015 and gained attention for condemning the Russian annexation of Crimea on-air, and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. In 2019, she released the film documentary The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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