Israel hits an Iranian television station - the missile attack is broadcast live to air as the presenter runs for cover and the studio fills with choking smoke and debris.

Denis Muller unpacks why the media are regarded as high value targets in war zones.

Plus a US Sheriff brazenly tells reporters his police will execute protesters and contact family to find out where the remains should be sent, if those protesters throw a brick or brandish a weapon. How does hold-the-powerful-to-account journalism function under this emerging fascist regime?

And in Australia it's the end of the road for the ABC's once firebrand panel debate show Q&A.

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National Guard soldiers have been ordered into LA to quell violent riots with a Channel 9 journalist hit by a rubber bullet fired by a police officer while she was reporting live to air. Footage appears to show one police officer deliberately moving his aim in her direction.

When billionaire gorillas - one in the White House - start hurling excrement at each other it's a train wreck the global media can't look away from. We'll take a look at the unfolding coverage of the Trump-Musk feud that's breaking the internet.

And after 16 years, "doing news differently" is coming to an end for Channel 10's The Project. Denis Muller was an advisor to The Project team when it started out .. and warns a replacement news-current affairs show on Network 10 will face an uphill battle.

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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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