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Jul 2020
21m 41s

How to Sell a Massacre: Al Jazeera Inves...

Al Jazeera
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It’s been called journalism’s most audacious sting.

A right-wing political party caught red-handed by Al Jazeera, soliciting funds and advice from the NRA on how to get guns back into Australia.

Host Kevin Hirten talks to the investigative unit’s Executive Producer Peter Charley about his new book based on the award-winning documentary How to Sell A Massacre.

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