#1138 Condemning, Defending and Rebuilding the Media
#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda)
#1129 The free press has been bought (Corporate Media and Billionaires)
#1087 Living in an empire of lies (Propaganda)
Air Date: 3-14-2017
Today we look at the mechanics and consequences of systemic lies and propaganda in an age of ignorance and anti-intellectualism
Read more #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump
#1077 Witnessing an Emerging Autocracy (Trump’s America)
Air Date: 2-3-2017
#1065 The fight for truth in a post-fact world (Media)
Air Date: 12-16-2016
Today we look at the problems with the media, so many problems, and what lessons we should learn in the wake of the election
Read more#1044 Working to maintain the status quo (Media)
Air Date: 09-23-2016
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
Read more#993 The corporatization of the media
Air date: 2-23-16
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
Read more#939 We are being failed in so many ways (Media)
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
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