(2011/06/20) Deregulating and misusing the media (Media)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 20 June 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Edition #499
Deregulating and misusing the media
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Act 1: A bit of explaining about net neutrality - Jimmy Dore Show
Song 1: The Edge Of The Ocean - Ivy
Act 2: Rush Limbaugh Lies On Net Neutrality - Young Turks
Song 2: Julie-O -Kevin "KO" Olusola
Act 3: Fox's Eric Bolling Auditions for Glenn Beck's Spot - Media Matters
Act 4: The effects of net neutrality legislation Part 1 - On the Media
Song 4: Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Florence + The Machine
Act 5: Sleazy Website Will Link To Anything - The Onion
Song 5: Finding Something To Do - Hellogoodbye
Act 6: The effects of net neutrality legislation Part 2 - On the Media
Song 6: Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
Act 7: Obama Admin Wiretaps the Internet - Young Turks
Song 7: Play the Game - Shout Out Louds
Act 8: The right's reaction to net neutrality - Counterspin
Song 8: RazorWire (Instrumental) - Chris Priest
Act 9: This is what counts as an "apology" over at Fox Business News - Media Matters
Act 10: Obama Caves On Net Neutrality, GOP Claims Government Takeover - Young Turks
Song 10: Fool - Shakira
Act 11: Elderly Woman Destroys Internet - The Onion
Song 11: La Valse d'Amélie (Version Piano) - Yann Tiersen
Act 12: Rush to Race-Bait - Media Matters
Act 13: Keith Olbermann on CurrentTV - Colbert Report
Song 13: Welcome Back, Kotter (Main Theme) - Knightsbridge
Act 14: The media's know-nothing, scolding, sex-negative bullshit - Dan Savage
Voicemails:
We need to hear more about the people's budget - Vikki from HI
Why it's never ethical to eat meat - Carl in NJ
Response to military comments on Bin Laden - Fred
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Final comments on putting Citizen Radio discussion to bed and thanking volunteers
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Weinergate- Blogger that broke story - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is brought to you by Stitcher Smart Radio. Download their free |
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| 0:07.6 | $100. Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with clips |
| 0:11.6 | today from the Jimmy Dorshow, the young Turks, media matters, on the media, the |
| 0:15.8 | onion radio news, counter-spin, the Colbert Report, and Dan Savage with a |
| 0:20.1 | bonus video clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from the Colbert |
| 0:24.5 | Report. And this episode does contain a bit of vulgar language. |
| 0:29.3 | Okay, now we're going to talk about net neutrality is in the news. The FCC just |
| 0:34.5 | issued a ruling that was kind of lukewarm. It kind of protected some of the |
| 0:39.6 | internet and it didn't protect others. Like if you the internet you use on your |
| 0:43.7 | phone, not protect it. And that everyone knows that's where the real internet is. |
| 0:48.3 | Okay, so if you let me just explain what net neutrality is to people. Okay, |
| 0:52.7 | that neutrality is when you go on the internet and you want to go to Facebook or |
| 0:56.6 | you go to YouTube or you want to go to JimmyDoreComedy.com. As we do all do. |
| 1:00.3 | All do. To watch some videos of me being hilarious. You go there. If you go |
| 1:05.6 | now, each page loads at the same time. It all comes up at the same time. I |
| 1:10.8 | can get to each page with it's like a it's like a telephone call. It's the |
| 1:15.4 | same rate for everybody. No matter if I'm the president of AT&T or if I'm a |
| 1:19.6 | regular person, we all get the same access. That sounds a little disgustingly |
| 1:23.1 | democratic, Jimmy. I hope there's something out there that's going to put an end |
| 1:26.3 | of that. Well, they have. They have a new thing. It's called tiered billing. So if |
| 1:30.3 | you pay more if you pay more money to your internet service provider, say |
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