(2012/01/16) The state of the media continues to embarrass (Media)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 17 January 2012
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Edition #566
The state of the media continues to embarrass
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Act 1: Channel for the Rich Man - Counterspin - 8-25-11
Song 1: Dance music - The Mountain Goats
Act 2: Fox Censors Alec Baldwin Over NewsCorp Hacking Emmy Joke - Young Turks - Air Date: 9-19-11
Song 2: Don't hold me back - Alex Cornish
Act 3: Rush Limbaugh's Christian Killing Accusation - Colbert Report - Air Date: 10-9-11
Song 3: Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Act 4: Coverage of Obama is mostly negative - Counterspin
Song 4: Moonlight Sonata - Ludwig van Beethoven
Act 5: Guest Calls Fox News Out on Obama Derangement Syndrome - Media Matters Air Date: 1-9-12
Act 6: Hank Williams Jr on The View Defending Obama Hitler Analogy - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-12-11
Song 6: Notorious - Duran Duran
Act 7: Making Sense of Hank Williams Jr's Obama Hitler Reference - Majority Report - Air Date: 10-7-11
Song 7: Change of Time - Josh Ritter
Act 8: Comedian Christian Finnegan on why watching no news is better than watching Fox News - Countdown Air Date: 11-23-11
Song 8: The argument - This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
Act 9: Fox News' Gretchen Carlson Can't Believe Poll Says Obama Will Win - David Pakman - Air Date: 12-16-11
Song 9: Für Elise - Ludwig van Beethoven
Act 10: Fox's Favorite Phrase: "Some Would Say" - Media Matters Air Date: 12-2-11
Act 11: Steve Jobs Ripped Fox News as A Destructive Force - Young Turks - Air Date: 10-26-11
Song 11: Little Embarrassing - Rosemary's Sons
Act 12: Why is NPR giving out Republican Talking Points - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 12-21-11
Song 12: Beaux Dimanches - Amadou & Mariam
Act 13: John Boehner Cuts Off CSPAN Cameras When Republicans Ripped Apart - David Pakman - Air Date: 12-22-11
Song 13: Symphony No.5 In C Minor Op.67 - 1st Movement - Ludwig van Beethoven
Act 14: Fox: The Muppets are "Brainwashing" Your Children - Media Matters Air Date: 12-5-11
Act 15: Fox Muppets Turning Your Kids Into OWS Commies - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-6-11
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestofthefluff.com. |
| 0:09.0 | Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cook's Today from Counter |
| 0:12.8 | Spin, The Young Turks, The Colbert Report, Media Matters, The Majority Report, Countdown |
| 0:17.2 | with Keith Oberman, The David Pakman Show, and The Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:21.6 | Finally, the long silence is coming to an end. |
| 0:32.8 | The September 19th New York Times reported that cable executives had surveyed the programming |
| 0:37.5 | landscape and identified an audience that just wasn't being served. |
| 0:42.2 | Quote, What was missing they decided was a channel for the rich man, the successful college |
| 0:47.2 | educated man who earns $150,000 or more a year. |
| 0:51.5 | Close Quote, The article about a new high-end men's lifestyle channel about fast cars, fancy |
| 0:57.4 | auctions, and football stars would just be funny if it weren't for the point that's |
| 1:01.6 | made but not explored. |
| 1:03.8 | That such a channel doesn't have to have a large audience, just a rich one that they |
| 1:07.2 | can sell to advertisers. |
| 1:09.5 | If that's how media works, readers may ask, how do we ever get programming that aims |
| 1:13.4 | to engage audiences advertisers may not want, or that challenges the interests of advertisers? |
| 1:19.9 | Perhaps the times thinks the answer to those questions are too obvious. |
| 1:23.1 | All right, I'm on. |
| 1:24.1 | Johnson Avenue in San Lois, the best bottom, five years older, six, maybe. |
| 1:29.2 | And indications that there's something wrong with our new house. |
| 1:33.0 | Trip down the wire twice daily, I'm in the living room watching the water gate, hearings |
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