#1297 Corporate Media is Designed to Ruin Political Discourse in America
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 August 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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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
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Racist voters still support racism - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-26-19
There is no value to going to those who supported Trump through all of has past racism only to ask them is they still support Trump.
For a media that still largely view the working class as a white-man-with-a-hard-hat caricature, this fits into a nice binary that undermines both efforts to take on fossil fuel companies and improve the lives of workers.
The media admonishes democrats for not moving further to the middle. Partisan battles are the status quo, while the world gets worse around us. Democrats will lose by supporting establishment politicians.
Ana and Michael Brooks discuss corporate medias dire need to split the progressive vote.
The AP Style Book only just recently decided that it may be ok to call some racist things racist.
In a media environment overwhelmed with information, misinformation, disinformation and so-called “fake news,” a cottage industry has emerged to “fact-check” the content coming across our screens
Ch. 7: CNN Should Be Embarrassed About Disgusting Debate - The David Pakman Show - Air Date 8-1-19
David discusses what a mess the democratic debates are.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 8: Thoughts on Medicare for All - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 9: Regulating the price of health care is imperative! - Marilyn from France
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the need to support independent progressive media with a bonus clip from David Pakman
Bonus Clip: Independent Progressive Media is in Trouble - David Pakman Show - Air Date 7-1-18
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| 0:31.8 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Love podcast in which we shall learn |
| 0:36.6 | about just a few of the ways that it is in the nature of corporate media to ruin a political |
| 0:42.2 | discourse by dismissing progressive perspectives entirely and preferring hype and controversy |
| 0:48.6 | over substance. |
| 0:50.4 | Let's stick around at the end of the show for a discussion about some of the threats |
| 0:53.7 | to independent progressive media in the age of Trump. |
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| 1:24.5 | And now clips today come from Counter-Spin, Citations Needed, the Tom Horton program, no |
| 1:30.3 | filter, and the David Pakman show. |
| 1:39.0 | With the presidential election over a year away, corporate media seemed to be offering |
| 1:44.0 | a preview of the sort of thing we have to look forward to. |
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