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Mehdi Hasan Goes Off on ‘Shameful’ Media Handling of Columbia Protests

NOT HOLDING BACK

In a wide-ranging chat, the former MSNBC host excoriated the U.S. media’s “failure” to cover Gaza in a balanced way, and laid out his vision for proving his own “doubters” wrong.

Mehdi Hasan illustrated over the Columbia University protests.
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Three months after signing off from MSNBC for the final time, Mehdi Hasan believes he is proving all of his “doubters wrong.”

Weeks after announcing the launch of his new media venture, Zeteo, the unapologetically progressive Hasan will on Thursday debut the company’s flagship podcast, We’re Not Kidding.

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