(2010/04/14) Destroying the media in more ways than one (Media) (MP3)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 14 April 2010
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Edition #352
Destroying the media in more ways than one
Act 1: Some bullshit happening somewhere - The Onion
Act 2: We need less media consolidation - The Progressive
Act 3: Anchor management - Daily Show
Act 4: Internet freedom in danger - Young Turks
Act 5: Beck makes it harder for FOX to fool people - Counterspin
Act 6: Glenn Beck on net neutrality - Young Turks
Act 7: Beck on Obama's politics of fear - Media Matters
Act 8: Beck attacks social justice - Colbert Report
Act 9: Glen Beck's hate train crashes - Ring of Fire
Act 10: Context, lies and videotape - Rachel Maddow
Act 11: Fox brings on anyone against health reform - Media Matters
Act 12: CNN hires Erick Erickson - Daily Show
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
The Blogs Must Be Crazy - Daily Show
Music:
Been it - The Cardigans
And it spread - Avett Brothers
Everything to everyone - Everclear
Do it again - Five Times August
Green eyes - Coldplay
Soir De Fête - Yann Tiersen
Spirit in the sky - Norman Greenbaum
La Valse Des Vieux Os - Yann Tiersen
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| 0:00.0 | This show is made possible only by the support of the listeners. |
| 0:04.8 | To see what you can do to help, please check out the support box at Best of the Left.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the Onion |
| 0:12.6 | Radio News, The Progressive Magazine, The Daily Show, The Young Turks, Counter-Spin, |
| 0:17.3 | Media Matters, The Colbert Report, Ring of Fire, and The Rachel Maddo Show, with a great |
| 0:21.8 | bonus clip today for our iPhone app users from The Daily Show. |
| 0:25.9 | And please be warned, the very first clip has lots of swearing in it, so ear-muff the kids. |
| 0:30.1 | Here it comes, right now. |
| 0:32.1 | Now in a desperate attempt to fill 24 hours of programming, here's some bullshit that |
| 0:40.0 | happened somewhere today. |
| 0:41.5 | We've got some footage here of the bullshit which began just after three o'clock this afternoon, |
| 0:46.7 | when residents in this neighborhood were shocked to see this fairly common thing happening. |
| 0:51.9 | An attractive witness described the event in breathless terms. |
| 0:55.0 | I went to my window and I was like, whoa, there's some bullshit happening. |
| 0:58.4 | That happened right over there. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm an old man, so you can trust what I say. |
| 1:01.9 | Authorities and special uniforms rush to the scene to stand around while our cameras |
| 1:05.9 | film them. |
| 1:06.9 | Our reporter Keith Collins joins us now live from the scene of the bullshit through the |
| 1:10.2 | use of expensive technology. |
| 1:11.9 | Good to be with you again, Keith. |
| 1:13.1 | We have a colorful graphic here that shows instances of bullshit like this are on the rise, |
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