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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

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

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

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

Today we look at just a few of the things that are fundamentally broken about the way our corporate media system works

Another look at how the media, the most important check on governmental power due to it's ability to question power and inform the populace, is terrible. Just fucking terrible.