like that approach to marco werman. hello i'm barbara sarah and you're watching a special edition of the listening post rising migration and the political responses to it have been defining features of the past decade stories of refugees tightening border controls political battles over immigration policy have all been in the headlines with conflicts ongoing around the world the impact of climate change the printing and the fallout from the global financial crisis still lingering the pressures driving people to move are only becoming greater in this episode we are shining a spotlight on the role that journalism has played in shaping what the public and policymakers know about migration we will be interviewing the filmmaker matthew a cell who was reported on migrant flows around the world will be looking at a genre of reality t.v. film that borders and checkpoints but we're starting the show with a report from the united states before president from took office only the best informed media junkies might have known that i