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Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Day
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — ‘Abundance’ Pablum as Counter to Left Populism
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism
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May 28, 2025 |
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News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing
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May 22, 2025 |
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News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform
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May 07, 2025 |
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Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Ep 219: How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Episode 217: A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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News Brief: Trump's Hollow Working Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lead a Real Resistance
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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News Brief: Israel Kills Over 400 in 12 Hrs, Media Unsure if This Counts as Violating the 'Ceasefire'
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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News Brief: The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil and the Phony 'Campus Safety' Panic
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Episode 216: Sunday Morning News Shows and the Problem With 'Agenda Setting' Court Stenography
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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News Brief: Silicon Valley Patronage, How To Subtly Drift Right, and the New Conservative Media Ecosystem
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith "Cost-Cutting Effort"
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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News Brief: Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality Show & NYT's MAGA Assist
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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News Brief: Media Won't Say a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute and How MAGA Became Too Big To Fail
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Episode 215: "Bipartisanship" as High-Minded Rhetorical Cover for Pushing Rightwing Policies
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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News Brief: NYT Bars Quakers From Using "Genocide" in Ad and Liberal Squeamishness Over the "G" Word
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Episode 214: Fake Ceasefire Talks and Feigned 'Concern' - How US Media Helped Distance Biden From the Gaza Genocide
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Episode 212: Gaza and the Political Utility of Selective Empathy
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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News Brief: Elite Media, Dems Blame 'Woke', 'Headwinds'––Everyone But Themselves––for Trump Win,"
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Episode 211: Bari Weiss, The 'University' of Austin, and the Silicon Valley-Funded Faux-Iconoclast Media Industry
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Episode 210: Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "Greedflation" "Conspiracies"
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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News Brief: Harris' Mid 2000s Neocon Re-Brand and Centrist Voters as Free Real Estate
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Episode 209: Popularism and the "Poll-Driven" Democrat as Cover for Conservative Policy Preferences
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Episode 208: How US Media Repackages Pro-Police Policies as "Reform"
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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News Brief: Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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4 Talking Points Used to Smear DNC Gaza Protesters—And Why They’re Bogus
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Ep 207: US-Backed Killing of Journalists in Gaza and the Limits of "Freedom of the Press" Sloganeering
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Episode 206: How the Gambling Industry Swallowed Sports Media Whole
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Live Show 7/16/24: Paris, Power and Olympic Class War with Jules Boykoff
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part I) - How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto the Public
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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News Brief: Unions, Gaza, and Labor's Checkered Relationship With US Militarism
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Live Show: Student Organizers Breakdown Media Distortions Over Gaza College Encampments
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Ep 203: Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part II: How Corporate Think Tanks Function as Influence Laundromats
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Ep 202: Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part I: Democrats and the Black Box Corporate Consulting Industry
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May 29, 2024 |
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Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling
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May 15, 2024 |
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News Brief: Axios, NYT Help White House Obscure Their Role in Rafah Invasion
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May 08, 2024 |
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News Brief: Campus Anti-Genocide Protests and the Weaponization of Squishy, Bad Faith "Safety" Rhetoric
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Episode 200 - The Rise of the War on Drugs 2.0: This Time It's Different, We Promise
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Episode 198: How The Atlantic Magazine Helps Sell Austerity and War to Middlebrow Liberals
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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News Brief: Media, Billionaires' Attacks on Homeless People May Pay Off Big at Supreme Court
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media’s Softball Treatment of ‘Effective Altruism’
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Beg-A-Thon Announcement Jan 30: The Worst Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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News Brief: Quantifying the Media's Selective Humanity in Gaza
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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News Brief: 5 Ways US Media Helps Put a 'Humanitarian' Spin on Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Episode 194: The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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News Brief: Media Adopts Israel's Simplistic 'Hunt for Hamas' Narrative, Providing Cover For Ethnic Cleansing
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Episode 193: How Military Jargon and Cliches Make Mass Death Seem Sterile (Part II)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Episode 192: How Military Jargon and Cliches Make Mass Death Seem Sterile (Part I)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Ep 191: How Media's Use of 'The Economy' Flattens Class Conflict
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Live Show 10/30/23: 4 Arguments Against a Gaza Ceasefire and Why They're Bullshit
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Live Show 10/16: Gaza Siege and the Liberal Handwringing Industrial Complex
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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News Brief: US Media, Washington Rush Head First into 9/11 2.0
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Ep 190: Why Media Insists the US is "Forced" to Commit Human Rights Abuses
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Ep 189: PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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News Brief: GOP, Corporate Media Attempt to Manufacture Conflict Between Autoworkers and Climate
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Episode 188: How Capital Repackages Substandard Products for the Poor as "Increasing Access"
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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News Brief: Attack of the Salt of the Earth Republican Country Music Stars
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Episode 187: Undercover Boss, Uber-Driving CEOs, and the "Empathetic Executive" Schtick
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Episode 186: Nativism in Media (Part III) - IMF, NAFTA and Global Inequality By Design
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Episode 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) - The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Episode 184: Nativism in Media (Part I) — How Dehumanization and Militarization Manufactured a “Border Crisis”
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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News Brief: As UPS Strike "Looms," Media Frames Working-Class Revolt as "Threat" to "The Economy"
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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News Brief: "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Episode 183: AI Hype and the Disciplining of “Creative,” Academic, and Journalistic Labor
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May 31, 2023 |
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A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-A-Thon: The Very Real Social Brain Rot of Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse
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May 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 182: Hardhats vs Hippies and the Cold War Curation of the Conservative Union Guy Trope
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May 17, 2023 |
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Episode 181: US Media's 5 Most Popular Revisionist Tropes About the Iraq and Vietnam Wars
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May 10, 2023 |
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Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories
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May 03, 2023 |
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News Brief Live: Tucker Carlson's Transparent 'Contrarian Left' Co-Option Strategy
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Announcement: Citations Needed's Semiannual Beg-A-Thon Live Show on April 26!
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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News Brief: Media's Credulous "Labor Shortage" Reporting Helps Lay Groundwork For Repealing Child Labor Laws
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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News Brief: How Brandon Johnson's Win Upends US Media's Patronizing, Simplistic "Crime" Narratives
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Episode 179: From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Episode 178: The Palliative Pop-History of American "Racial Progress" Narratives
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Episode 177: Popular Anti-Union Talking Points and How to Combat Them
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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News Brief: Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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News Brief: The Battle Over NYT's Lurid, Tabloid Coverage of 'Trans Issues'
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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News Brief: How Newspapers Aided Genocide in California - An Interview with Benjamin Madley
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Episode 176: How the “Parental Rights” Rallying Cry Has Been a Rightwing Stalking Horse for Over 100 Years
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Episode 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Episode 174: How Your Favorite 1990's "Very Special" Anti-Drug Episode Was Probably Funded by the US Government
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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News Brief: 'Tough Love' Used to Justify Abusing Children and Surplus Black Population in Alabama
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Episode 172: The Foundational Myth Machine - Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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News Brief: Biden, Congressional Dems Partner with GOP, Media to Discipline Rail Labor
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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News Brief: Law & Order's Boring Anti-Bail Reform Diatribe
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Episode 171: The Vacuity of "Radical Libs Forced Voters Into the Arms of the Right" Discourse
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the ‘Neither Right Nor Left’ Guy
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Episode 169: How the Right Ventriloquizes "The Working Man" to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Morality Politics of Star Trek + Pro Wrestling
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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A Friendly PSA: Support Citations Needed, Win Some Merch!
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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News Brief: DC Media's "Fare Evasion" Meltdown
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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News Brief: Young Turks' Misleading Anti-Bail Reform Demagoguery
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Ep. 168: How Faux Folksy "Real World" Advice is Employed to Limit Political Possibility and Punch Left
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Episode 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Ep. 165 - Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part II): The Rare Pro-Worker Narrative
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Ep 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Plot Cliche
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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News Brief: Biden's Dictator Tour and the Tedium of Our "Human Rights Concerns" Theater
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Live Interview: How Our Simplistic 'Inflation' Discourse Fuels the War on Workers - with Josh Mason
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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News Brief: Forced Pregnancies, Gutting the EPA and Growing Frustration Over “Vote Harder” Messaging
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Ep. 163: The Media-Manufactured Mystique of the US Court System
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Live Interview: "Action News" & the Rise of Anti-Black Local "Crime" Reporting . w/ Layla A. Jones
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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News Brief: Boudin Recall Coverage and how the NYT Sells 'Tough on Crime' Dogma to Squishy Liberals
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Episode 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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News Brief: Rightwing Media's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to Mass Shootings
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May 27, 2022 |
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News Brief: Tucker & Co Try to Lawyer Their Way Out of Trafficking in Great Replacement Rhetoric
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May 18, 2022 |
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Ep. 161: The Real Life Implications of Pop Culture's Fascination with the Dubious Science of “Criminal Profiling”
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May 11, 2022 |
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Ep.160: The 'Last $100 in Your Bank Account' Economy - How Media's Love Affair with Crypto, NFTs and Gambling Prey Upon Working People
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May 04, 2022 |
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Ep. 159: The Anti-Worker Pseudo-psychology of Corporate Personality Testing
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Live Interview: What Happened to Our Politics After the End of History? with Luke Savage
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Episode 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Created to Erase Indigenous Peoples
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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News Brief: The Squishy Liberal Euphemisms Big City Dem Mayors Use to Sell Criminalizing Homelessness
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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News Brief: 5 Worst US Media Reactions to Russia's Ukraine Invasion
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Episode 157: How the "Culture War" Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Episode 156: How the "Investigative Journalism" Aesthetic Can Be Used to Launder Power-Serving Narratives
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Episode 155: How the American Settler-Colonial Project Shaped Popular Notions of ‘Conservation’
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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News Brief: "Biden Crack Pipes": Anatomy of a Manufactured GOP Outrage––and Democratic Capitulation
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Episode 154: "Inclusive Patriotism": How Radicals Are Retconned into Liberal Champions of the American Project
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Ep 153: Crime Stoppers, America's Most Wanted and Rise of Vigilante TV News
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Live Interview: Police 'Defunding' That Never Was and Abolitionism as a Long-Term Social Project
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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News Brief: Dem-Aligned Media Set Up Teachers Unions to Take the Fall for Midterm Losses
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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A Very Special News Brief - Hallmark's Anti-Labor Churn: A Follow-Up Conversation
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Ep. 152: Hallmark Christmas Movies and the Cozy, Conservative Nostalgia Machine
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Episode 151: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part II)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Episode 150: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part I)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Episode 149: How Fatness Became a Cheap Joke and Proxy for Moral Deficiency in Pop Culture
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Ep 148: The GOP’s ‘Rightwing Populism’ Rebrand (Part II) - Messaging Wars in 'White America'
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Episode 147 - The GOP's 'Rightwing Populism' Rebrand: How Billionaire-Backed Charlatans Pick Off Disillusioned Lefties (Part I)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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News Brief - Reconciliation Bill Negotiations: A Media Autopsy
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity 'Activism'
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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News Brief - Colin Powell: Stumbling Empire Personified
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Live Interview: How 'The Kaepernick Effect' Revealed Reactionary Forces in Youth Sports. with Dave Zirin
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Episode 145: How Real Estate-Curated 'Mom & Pop Landlord' Sob Stories Are Used to Gut Tenant Protections
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 144: How the Cold War Shaped First-Person Journalism and Literary Conventions
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Episode 143 - PR and Prop 22: How Silicon Valley Uses Hollow "Anti-Racist" Posturing to Sell Its Exploitative Business Model
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Ep 142: The Summer of Anti-BLM Backlash and How Concepts of "Crime" Were Shaped By the Propertied Class
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Live Interview: How the ‘Pandemic Games’ Expose the Neoliberal Scam of Global Sporting Events
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Episode 141: How "Most Livable Cities" Lists Center Upwardly Mobile White Professionals
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Episode 140 - Kicking the Hollywood Habit: Addiction Morality Tales in Film and TV [Virtual Live Show]
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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News Brief: CNN Helps Biden Kick Off 'War On Crime 2.0: This Time It's Not Racist, Trust Us'
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Episode 138: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part II)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Episode 137: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part I)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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News Brief: "Organized Crime" "Shoplifting Epidemic" Panic Hits San Francisco Media
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May 26, 2021 |
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Episode 136: The 'Ungrateful Athlete': Anti-Black, Anti-Labor Currents in Sports Media
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May 19, 2021 |
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News Brief: Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points
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May 14, 2021 |
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News Brief: How US Media Helped Trump and USAID Weaponize "Aid" During 2019 Venezuela Coup Attempt
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May 12, 2021 |
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News Brief: On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS
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May 12, 2021 |
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News Brief: On Biden's TRIPS Waiver Support, Substance Matters More than Headlines
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May 06, 2021 |
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News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Episode 135: The “Labor Shortage” Ruse: How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions and Depress Wages
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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News Brief: Austin Activists Combat Anti-Homeless Stigma in 'Prop B' Media Fight
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Episode 132: The House Always Wins - How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Episode 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Episode 130: 'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media’s Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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News Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall Street's Game Rigging
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Episode 129 - Vaccine Apartheid: US Media's Uncritical Adoption of Racist "Intellectual Property" Dogma
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Episode 128 - The “Healing” Con: How Warm and Fuzzy Appeals for "Unity" Are Used to Protect Power
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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News Brief: US Media Pathologically Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Episode 127: Democratic Leadership's Predictable Scapegoating of 'Defund the Police'
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Episode 126: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn’t Rehash Under Biden (Part II)
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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News Brief: The ICE and Pentagon-Bloating Vagueness of the "Climate Change is a National Security Issue" Mantra
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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Ep. 125: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn't Rehash Under Biden (Part I)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Episode 124: Mental Health During A Pandemic: How US Media Spins Societal Failures Into Personal Self-Help Journeys
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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News Brief: It's Not a "Fall From Grace", This Has Always Been Who Giuliani Was
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Episode 123: How Liberal Meta-Demands for "Investigations" and "Studies" Are Used to Silence Activists
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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News Brief - Review: Netflix's Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film 'Hillbilly Elegy'
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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News Brief - Post Election Spin: Trump Blames CIA for Loss, Corporate House Dems Blame BLM
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Episode 122: Climate Chaos (Part II) - The Militarization of Liberals' Climate Change Response
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Episode 121 - Climate Chaos (Part I): How the Gap Between Liberal Rhetoric & Policy Promotes Denialism
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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News Brief - Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Follow Up Conversation with Oliver Stone
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Episode 120: 30 Under 30 Lists and the Problem with Our Youth-Obsessed 'Success' Narratives
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Episode 118: The Snitch Economy: How Rating Apps and Tipping Pit Working People Against Each Other
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Episode 117: The Always 'Lagging' U.S. War Machine
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Episode 116: The Pro-Gentrification Aspirationalism of HGTV's House-Flipping Shows
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Episode 115: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part III) - How the Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Episode 114: Anti-Muslim Racism in Hollywood (Part II) - Oscar-Bait Imperialism
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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News Brief: The Harper's Letter and Our Extremely Narrow, Self-Serving Definition of Cancel Culture
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Episode 113: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part 1) - Action and Adventure Schlock
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Episode 112: How "Polarization" Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Episode 111: How “Small Business” Rhetoric Is Used to Protect Corporate America
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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News Brief: The Growing Pushback to Copaganda
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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News Brief: Cops Push “Outside Agitator” Line, Exploit Real Fears of Far Right Violence to Delegitimize Protests
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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News Brief: 7 Years On, US Media Still Has No Answer for #BLM Other Than Vague Handwringing
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May 30, 2020 |
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News Brief: Trump, the NFL, and the Upcoming Mother of All 'Culture Wars'
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May 27, 2020 |
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Episode 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist “Innovation”
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May 20, 2020 |
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Episode 109: Self-Help Culture and the Rise of Corporate Happiness Monitoring
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May 06, 2020 |
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Episode 108: How GDP Fetishism Drives Climate Crisis and Inequality
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Episode 107: Pop Torts and the Ready-Made Virality of ‘Frivolous Lawsuit’ Stories
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Episode 106: The Sanitization of Sanctions
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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News Brief: Widespread Indifference to Covid-19 in Prisons
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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News Brief: Top 10 Worst Covid Crisis Takes (So Far)
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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News Brief: As a Social Democracy Response Fails, Likelihood of Martial Response to Covid19 Rises
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Episode 105: Pandemic, Pelosi, and the People We Consider Human
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Episode 104: The Pete Peterson Austerity Empire and the “How Will You Pay For It?” Lie
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Episode 103: The Glib Left-Punching of “Purity Politics” Discourse
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Episode 102: The Conservative Sanctimony of Journalistic Impartiality
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Episode 101: The False Universality of “Common Sense”
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Episode 100: Willie Hortonism 2020 - Media Attacks on Prison Reform
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Episode 99: The Cruel, Voyeuristic Quackery of Rehab TV Shows
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Episode 98: The Refined Sociopathy of The Economist
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Episode 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Episode 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Episode 95: The Hollow Vanity of Libertarian "Choice" Rhetoric
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Episode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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News Brief: A Conversation With Indigenous Media Resistance on Mauna Kea
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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News Brief: Bolivia Coup Coverage and the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse
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Nov 15, 2019 |
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Episode 93: 100 Years of U.S. Media Fueling Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Episode 92: The Responsibility-Erasing Catch-all of ‘Automation’
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Episode 91: It's Time to Retire the Term "Middle Class"
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Episode 90: How Western Media's False Binary Between "Science" and Indigenous Rights is Used to Erase Native People
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Episode 89: How Charges of 'Appeasement' Equate Diplomacy with Treason
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Episode 88: The Mythical Bygone Glory Days of "Free Speech"
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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News Brief: Jon Schwarz on Samantha Power's Whitewashing Memoir
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Episode 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) - The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Episode 85: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part I) - The Infestation Rhetoric of Local News
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Episode 84: How Claims of “Sowing Discord” Are Used to Silence Criticism of Power
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Episode 83: The Unchecked Conservative Ideology of US Media's 'Fact-Check' Verticals
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Episode 82: 'Western Civilization' and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Episode 81: How US Media Pits Labor and Climate Activists Against One Other
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Episode 80: Animal Rights as Media and Pop Culture Punchline
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Episode 79: How 'Neutral' 'Experts' Took Over Trump's Iran Policy
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Episode 78: The Militarization of U.S. Media's Drug Coverage
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Episode 77: Frugality Fables and the Poor-Shaming Grift of Financial Advice Journalism
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May 29, 2019 |
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Episode 76: The Anti-War Rebranding of Rhodes and Power and the Moral Hazard of Faux Mea Culpas
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May 22, 2019 |
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News Brief: The #Bronx120 and Preet Bharara's Woke Rebranding
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May 09, 2019 |
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Episode 75: The Trouble with 'Florida Man'
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May 01, 2019 |
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Episode 74: Liberal Gandhi Fetishism and the Problem with Pop Notions of 'Violence'
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Episode 73: Western Media’s Narrow, Colonial Definition of "Corruption"
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Episode 72: John Stossel: Libertarian Billionaires' Inside Man
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Episode 71: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part II)
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Episode 70: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part I)
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Episode 69: The Rise of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Episode 68 - A New Gun Control Debate: Dismantling Our Racist 'Lock 'Em Up' Approach
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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News Brief: Let's Relitigate the Sh*t Out of 2016 -- with Thomas Frank
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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Episode 67: The Gate-Keeping, Power-Serving Tautology of “Electability”
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Episode 66: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Episode 65: How Empire Uses ‘Feminist’ Branding to Sell War and Occupation
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Episode 64: Mike Rowe’s Koch-Backed Working Man Affectation
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With ‘Nation of Immigrants’ Narratives
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Episode 61: What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC, Part II -- A Rebuttal
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Episode 60: Kitten Rescues, Lip-Syncing & Christmas Traffic Stops - Your Guide to Clickbait Copaganda
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Episode 59: National Pastimes: Mindless Militarism in American Sports
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Episode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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News Brief: Consumer Society and the Curation of Culture
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Episode 57: A Matter of Survival - Trivializing Trans Rights as a Boutique “Identity” Issue
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Episode 56: How The Media Learned to Worry About War Without Ever Opposing It
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Episode 55: Jake Tapper and the Art of Faux-Adversarialism
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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Episode 54: Local 'Crime' Reporting as Police Stenography
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Episode 53: The Increasingly Dull Edge of 'Hypocrisy' Takedowns
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Episode 52: Attacks on Affirmative Action and the Commodification of Diversity
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Episode 51: How 'The West Wing' Poisoned the Liberal Mind
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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Episode 50: Anti-Imperialism and MSNBC-Approved Socialism
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Episode 49: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part II)
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Episode 48: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part I)
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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News Brief: Don't Let the Media Erase McCain's Far Right Legacy
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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Episode 44: RussiaGate, Year 3 - Using the Nonstop Specter of Russia to Tarnish Black Activists
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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Episode 43: RussiaGate Year 3 -- How Liberals' Martial Posture Harms the Left
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Episode 42: 'Populism' - The Media’s Favorite Catch-All Smear for the Left
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Episode 41: The Moral Poverty of Capitalist Healthcare Framing
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Episode 40: The Civility Fetish
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Episode 39: From Cradle to Courtroom: How The Media Stacks the Deck Against “Defendants”
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Episode 38: The Media's Bogus Generation Obsession
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May 23, 2018 |
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Episode 37: Black Lives Matter, Dreamers, and the Problem of 'The Perfect Victim'
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May 16, 2018 |
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Episode 36: Maplewashing — Looking Behind Canada’s Progressive Veneer
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May 09, 2018 |
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Episode 35: The Total Blackout of the Korean Left
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Episode 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Episode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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Episode 30: Liberal Media’s Myopic Military Worship
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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Episode 29: The Asymptotic ‘Two State Solution’ (Part II)
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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Episode 28: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part I)
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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News Brief: How to Respond to Knee-Jerk Bigotry on Live TV
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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Episode 27: How the Media Mainstreamed Racist Pseudoscience
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Episode 26: The 'Welfare' Dog-Whistle
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Episode 25: The Banality of CIA-Curated Definitions of ‘Democracy’
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Episode 24: Highlighting Alternative Media - The Moral Limits of Dunking on Thomas Friedman
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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News Brief: Why the Media Should Stop Calling it a "Government Shutdown"
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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Episode 23: The Media's Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Episode 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Episode 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Episode 20: Lotteryism, Part II -- A Most Dangerous Game: How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Episode 19: Lotteryism Part I -- How a Compliant Press Fuels the Spectacle of 'Winning'
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Episode 18: Fake News Panic and the Silencing of Dissident Media
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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Episode 17: Whitewashing America's Role in Yemen
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Nov 29, 2017 |
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News Brief: #J20 Trial Update and the Political Definitions of 'Violence'
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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Episode 16: Editorial Boards––Protectors of Establishment Ideology
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Nov 15, 2017 |
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Episode 15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch
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Nov 08, 2017 |
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Episode 14: The Iran Deal Protection Racket
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Episode 12: The New Atheists, Celebrity Crusaders For Empire
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part II -- Racist Media as Barrier to Govt Spending
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part I -- Single Payer Propaganda War
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Sep 27, 2017 |
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Episode 10: Ableism and the Ethics of Calling Trump “Crazy”
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Sep 20, 2017 |
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Episode 09: Liberal Media Throws #J20 Activists Under the Bus
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Sep 13, 2017 |
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Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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News Brief: Harvey, Climate Change and Snitch Reporters
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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Episode 07: BDS & the Moral Narratives of Colonization
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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News Brief: Nazis, the ACLU & the Moral Limits of 'Free Speech'
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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Episode 06: The Media’s Default Setting of White Supremacy
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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News Brief: Media Helps Trump Stoke Tensions with North Korea
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History
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Aug 02, 2017 |
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Episode 04: The Root of All Evil
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2.0
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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Episode 02 : The North Korea Memory Hole
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Jul 19, 2017 |
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Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam
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Jul 12, 2017 |