#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 8 September 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 09/08/2017
Today we look at our vapid media landscape and see how it lead, some would say inevitably, to the election of someone like Donald Trump
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: The destruction of facts - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 3-14-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: Damage - Jimmy Eat World
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Weaponization of 'Fake News' - The Breach - Air Date 8-29-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Le mystère de contre jour - David Ari Leon
Ch. 6: Act 3: The search for truth-commited journalism falls down at both ends - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 3-31-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Honesty - Billy Joel
Ch. 9: Song 4: Laugh So You Don't Cry - Andy Davis
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Trouble With Reality Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 5-17-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Zissou Society Blue Star Cadets / Ned's Theme (Take 1) - Mark Mothersbaugh
Ch. 12: Act 6: Joshua Green on how Bannon has changed politics for the worse - Primary Concerns from @NewRepublic - Air Date 7-25-17
Ch. 13: Song 6: You're Not In On the Joke (iTunes Session) - Cobra Starship
Ch. 14: Act 7: How "The Apprentice" Helped Make Trump President - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 4-13-17
Ch. 15: Song 7: Million Dollar Loan - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Trouble With Reality Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 5-17-17
Voicemails
Ch. 17: The first and second amendments - Issac from Valencia, CA
Ch. 18: Oppression never dies, it always transforms itself and resurrects itself - V from Central New York
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 19: Final comments on the evolution of systems of oppression
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:00.0 | In 1984, Orwell-Added people are controlled by inflicting pain. |
| 0:05.6 | In Brave New World, they're controlled by inflicting pleasure. |
| 0:10.4 | And it's that that led us, |
| 0:13.7 | ineluctibly, to the election of Donald Trump. |
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| 0:36.8 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast |
| 0:39.3 | with Coup today from the broadcast, the breach, |
| 0:42.4 | counter-spin, the majority report on the media, |
| 0:45.4 | primary concerns, and pop-agenda. |
| 0:47.9 | Award-winning political cartoonist and columnist Tom Tolls |
| 1:01.9 | wrote last week in the Washington Post, |
| 1:03.9 | every minute President Trump is in office |
| 1:06.9 | more damage is done to the United States. |
| 1:08.9 | We are supposed to be comforted by the institutional checks |
| 1:11.9 | and balances we are supposed to derive solace |
| 1:15.9 | from the fact that there will be future elections. |
| 1:18.6 | We're supposed to be heartened by the knowledge |
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