(2012/12/14) How the media is a jerk, bad and getting worse (Media)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 December 2012
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Edition #671
How the media is a jerk, bad and getting worse
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The decline of broadcast news in America - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 10-18-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: The bleeding heart show - The New Pornographers
Ch. 4: Act 2: The Late Fred Rogers Fought Congress For His Neighborhood - Citizen Radio - Air Date 10-12-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood - VoiceBox
Ch. 6: Act 3: A New OWS Or Just A Better Look At The Old - CounterSpin - Air Date - 11-30-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: See what you want - The Futureheads
Ch. 8: Act 4: Michael Hastings Tears Petraeus to Shreds on CNN- Young Turks - Air Date 11-13-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: The Emperor's New Clothes - Elton John
Ch. 10: Act 5: Journalist Destroys Fox News on Fox News - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-27-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: First snow - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Ch. 12: Act 6: Carlson Questions GOP Message Machine, Ignores Role of Fox News in Creating GOP Message - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 12-06-12
Ch. 14: Act 7: Obama helps Rupert Murdoch rule America - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 11-30-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: Rupert Murdoch on the line - The Screaming Majority
Ch. 16: Act 8: Block Murdoch and FCC Media Consolidation - The Progressive - Air Date: 12-6-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: White blank page - Piano Tribute Players
Ch. 18: Act 9: The Usual From The Right Advice For The Left. - CounterSpin - Air Date 11-23-12
Ch. 20: Act 10: Even Fox News is Sick of Karl Rove! - Majority Report - Air Date: 12-06-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: The Rose (as made famous by Bette Midler) - Soft Rock Piano Players
Ch. 22: Act 11: Fox News Hides The Truth About Food Stamps - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 11-29-12
Ch. 24: Act 12: O'Reilly Blames Gays, Abortion For The 'War On Christmas' - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-08-12
Ch. 25: Song 12: Hey ya - Obadiah Parker
Ch. 26: Act 13: 15 Years Of Manipulation And Degradation - Lee Camp - Air Date: 12-11-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 27: Thanks for playing Mike Malloy - Jody from Indiana
Ch. 28: Thanks for the Gaza episode - Todd from LA
Ch. 29: Asking for stories on hemp, etc. - Kevin from Helena, Montana
Ch. 30: Is it ok to shop at amazon? - Jake from Lincoln Nebraska
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 31: Final comments answering whether it's ok to shop at Amazon
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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 BestableF.com. |
| 0:09.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestableF podcast with Coots Today from Comedian Lee Camp, |
| 0:13.5 | the Tom Hartman program, Citizen Radio, Counter-Spin, The Young Turks, The Majority Report, The |
| 0:18.4 | Media Matters Minute, and The Progressive. |
| 0:20.6 | And remember kids don't trust anyone who says you should trust them, like the corporate |
| 0:24.2 | media does, only trust independent news sources, like this show. |
| 0:30.0 | This is one of the sad things, PAP, about American politics, that in 1987, when Ronald |
| 0:35.4 | Reagan stopped enforcing what is called the fairness doctrine, but really it should have |
| 0:40.8 | had a different name, because what it said was that if a radio or television station |
| 0:45.5 | and nowadays even cable, because they use public rights away, a satellite that used public |
| 0:50.0 | rights away, I mean, I think this should universally apply, but none of it does anymore anyway, |
| 0:54.2 | so it's academic. |
| 0:55.2 | But if they want to have their license renewed every year, they have to demonstrate that |
| 0:58.9 | they have programmed at least in part in the public interest, and people used to think |
| 1:03.6 | that that meant public service announcements, but I did news in Lansing, Michigan, I started |
| 1:09.0 | in radio in 1968, I did news from 71 to 78 in WITL in Lansing, and we had five people |
| 1:17.7 | in the news department for this little radio station, it was number one station in Lansing, |
| 1:20.9 | but Lansing is a little town, and the country western station, and the station lost money |
| 1:25.8 | on that news operation, they proudly lost money on that news operation, and we all knew |
| 1:31.1 | in the news department, this was all before Reagan stopped enforcing, this was the 70s, |
| 1:35.4 | we all knew that if we were caught talking to the sales people, we'd get fired, it's |
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