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Nov 2022
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Blowing the whistle on World Cup corrupt...

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Qatar's 'sports-washing' World Cup has backfired in PR terms, but it's taken the heat off world football's corrupted governing body FIFA who gave it a green light in the first place. Mediawatch talks to a whistleblower who became a journalist and publisher herself to get the story out. 
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