#1297 Corporate Media is Designed to Ruin Political Discourse in America
Air Date: 8–16-2019
Today we take a look at just a few of the ways that it is in the nature of corporate media to ruin political discourse by dismissing progressive perspectives and preferring hype and controversy over substance
Read more#1294 Journalism is Under Attack in America Like Never Before
Air Date: 8–02-2019
Today we take a look at the ways that Trump and his administration are systematically chipping away at the concept of a free press, a hallmark tactic of authoritarian governments everywhere
Read more#1261 Profitable Extremism (How Social Media Propagates Hate)
Air Date: 4–2-2019
Today we take a look at the so-called "Algorithms of Oppression." Not that they're made to be that way on purpose but that it is a natural outcome of a profit-based system that incentivizes people to post the most click-baity content while the system learns the viewer's weaknesses to ruthlessly feed them whatever will keep them engaged.
Read more#1206 The war on journalism, truth and democracy itself
#1196 Building a media that supports rather than undermines democracy
#1149 The loss of liberty at the hands of concentrated power (Media and Net Neutrality)
Air Date: 12–1-2017
#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
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