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Ch. 1: Trump's War on Journalism - Newsbeat - Air Date 3-1-18
Obama had his "War on Whistleblowers." Trump unflinchingly attacks the media. There have also been arrests of reporters. How "free" is the free press?
Ch. 2: Trump really does want to put journalists in prison - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 4-30-18
Memos written by former FBI Director James Comey after private meetings with President Donald Trump indicate Trump seemed obsessed with arresting and imprisoning journalists.
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Ch. 4: Is Trump's chaos beating the media? - Trumpcast - Air Date 4-26-18
Jacob Weisberg is joined by the media critic, Jay Rosen, to talk about why he thinks Trump is winning and the press is losing.
Ch. 5: For the Sake of The People In This Room - On the Media - Air Date 8-3-18
CNN reporter Jim Acosta was verbally attacked by a crowd of Trump supporters at a Tampa rally. Brooke speaks with Greg Sargent, opinion writer at The Washington Post, about how and why the president incites his base toward anger and disbelief.
Ch. 6: Is Donald Trump Systematically Destroying Faith in The Media - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date 8-1-18
The First requirement of every despot is to destroy people's faith in the free press.
Ch. 7: Trump Admin Launches Major Attack on Freedom of the Press - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 7-23-18
The Trump administration launches a concerted large-scale attack on the media with the goal of labelling it the enemy of the American people.
More and more mainstream corporate media folks are receiving death threats as well, leading one NYT columnist to warn, “we are approaching a day when blood on the newsroom floor will be blood on the President’s hands."
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Ch. 9: Explaining extra costs of private health insurance - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 10: Final comments
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MUSIC:
- Opening Theme: Loving Acoustic Instrumental by John Douglas Orr
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- Gondola Blue - Towboat (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Shift of Currents - Aeronaut (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Pelliu - Blue Dot Sessions (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Thannoid - Bodytonic (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Gusty Hollow - Migration (Blue Dot Sessions)
- A Path Unwinding - K4 (Blue Dot Sessions)
- Voicemail Music: Low Key Lost Feeling Electro by Alex Stinnent
- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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Trump gets all of his information from Faux News, which was started in 1996 by a Republican political strategist. (That statement alone should give you pause). All news sources are fake, except the one started with an actual bias, called Faux. CNN was lauched in 1980 and was the only cable news network for a long time. When did it become fake news?