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I’ve had decent luck with recommending Citations Needed. It’s got NPR tone at first listen so people aren’t immediately on edge about the content.
The episodes on the ever-stumbling us empire and thought-terminating cliches come to mind for getting people to more critically examine how mainstream media orientalizes ‘bad countries’. I’m sure there are some other good starting points that other comrades here can recommend