Air Date: 3-14-2017

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Today we look at the mechanics and consequences of systemic lies and propaganda in an age of ignorance and anti-intellectualism

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Air Date: 2-3-2017

Air Date: 12-16-2016

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Today we look at the problems with the media, so many problems, and what lessons we should learn in the wake of the election

Air Date: 09-23-2016

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Today we look at some of the ways our corporate media work to ignore widespread disaffection and real issues in favor of fluff, argument and ineffectual neutrality

Air date: 2-23-16

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Today we look at the effects of the media companies shift from producing news content as a public service to ‘infotainment’ and where we’re headed in the world of vertical integration and threats to net neutrality

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Today we take a look at a variety of ways the media fails us, from the use of fear tactics and stereotyping to their completely credulous regurgitation of government press releases and all around insider mindset that can never challenge the conventional wisdom

Today we take a look at the terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, including the hypocrisies, the missed points and a reassessment of the place of non-muslims in the War on Islamic Extremism™

A rerun from the earliest days of the show, May 2006 to be exact. If you missed the Colbert White House Correspondents Dinner the first time around then this is worth checking out and if you paid attention to it in the moment then this is a nice way to relive the magic. With The Colbert Report having recently come to a close, and me getting sick this week, it seemed like the perfect time to replay this classic.

Today we take a look at the fact that the divisions in our media consumption are creating perspectives of the world which are utterly unrecognizable to one another