Narrative war IRAN PROTESTS | Karoline Leavitt lashes out about ICE question | Misleading headlines by Jan Fran and Antoinette Lattouf

With an internet block out, state media tightly controlled, foreign actors bragging about online interference, and exiled figures presenting themselves as the solution, protestors and their plight largely disappear from the story - by design. Thousands of Iranian protestors have been brutally killed - yet in the war over the narrative, their plight is not often being centred. Meanwhile, Trump’s press secretary snaps at another reporter - this time to dodge a basic question about the shooting of an unarmed mother by an ICE agent. There’s also a shout out to some responsible reporting on neo-Nazi material and a peak at the growing influence of InDaily SA, the newspaper muscling in on Murdoch's territory. 0:00 Lattouf health update 2:20 New year news chaos 4:30 What’s ahead 8:00 Iran protests primer 9:45 Internet blackout and reporting gaps 12:15 Diaspora anger over coverage 16:29 Mossad admits meddling 21:03 Protest hashtags boosted from Israel 22:25 Why death tolls stay murky 26:02 The Reza Pahlavi saviour script 29:55 Putting Iranian civilians back at the center 31:15 Trump’s Karoline Leavitt vs a journalist 37:50 When satire barely exaggerates reality 39:38 Randa Abdel-Fattah and a very cheeky headline 45:32 News Corp Adelaide narrative challenged by InDaily 52:40 Neo-Nazi flyer: reporting that it’s dangerous