#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
Read more#891 Freedom, terrorism and where we stand (Charlie Hebdo)
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™
Read moreHe May Be a Failure, but He's Our Failure (Colbert's Correspondents Dinner Speech)
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.
#880 Proof of the multiverse theory (Media)
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
Read more#865 Structural failures that lead us to war (Media)
Today we look on in horror as the media once again leads us to war and we examine the underlying reasons why the media will continue to fail us
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#856 Racism as a paradigm (Media)
Today we take a look at how the media reinforces all of the existing, societal assumptions about race and we use a new analogy to describe the paradigm of racial privilege
Read more#848 Wars and words (Media)
Today we take a look at ways the media loves to spin the facts of war, start new wars and generally support the people with the power to start wars
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#831 The scales are systemically tipped (Media)
Today we look at just a few of the things that are fundamentally broken about the way our corporate media system works
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