(2013/08/12) The trial of Bradley Manning
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🗓️ 12 August 2013
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #745
The trial of Bradley Manning
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Media's Non-Coverage Of Bradley Manning - CounterSpin - Air Date 7-19-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Never there - Cake
Ch. 4: Act 2: Bradley Manning Faces 130 Years in Prison - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-31-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Close to free - BoDeans
Ch. 6: Act 3: Bradley Manning Should Be Sentenced to Time Served - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-06-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Ch. 8: Act 4: Mischaracterizing The Manning Leaks - CounterSpin - Air Date 8-2-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: How loud your heart gets - Lucius
Ch. 10: Act 5: Why Bradley Manning Should Go Free - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-31-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Drums of freedom - Bard
Ch. 12: Act 6: The Message of Bradley Manning's Prosecution - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-06-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Political prisoner - Nivehive
Ch. 14: Act 7: Bradley Manning: Government's Cheating Heart - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 08-07-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Why we fight - The Undercover Hippy
Ch. 16: Act 8: No Proof Manning's Leaks Caused Harm #FreeBradleyManning - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-02-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: No justice, no peace - Wackiavelli
Ch. 18: Act 9: Bradley Manning Max Sentence Cut to 90 Years; Dad Claims Innocence - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 08-08-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Six weeks - Of Monsters and Men
Ch. 20: Act 10: A distorted view of extreme punishment - Radio Dispatch - Air Date: 8-5-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: Responding to Steve from Stockton re: Wade and Zimmerman trial - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
Ch. 22: Reflections on the Zimmerman verdict and jury nullification - Adam from New York
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments putting the Zimmerman discussion to bed
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, where details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from CounterSpin, |
| 0:13.2 | The Young Turks, The Majority Report, The Tom Hartman program, The David Pakman Show, |
| 0:17.4 | The Radio Dispatch. |
| 0:27.4 | Corporate TV networks can devote a lot of time, energy, and money to certain stories. |
| 0:34.5 | They deem newsworthy. |
| 0:35.5 | That was the message of a recent New York Times report that was headlined with a royal |
| 0:39.9 | baby-do news outlets are on high alert. |
| 0:44.2 | That headline told you all you really needed to know. |
| 0:47.3 | The networks are sending anchors to report from London when the royal baby arrives. |
| 0:52.2 | It's a story of little actual news value, obviously, but the networks have already decided |
| 0:57.5 | otherwise. |
| 0:58.5 | They make these kinds of decisions all the time. |
| 1:01.7 | Consider the trial of military whistleblower Bradley Manning. |
| 1:04.8 | The largest leak of classified documents in US history. |
| 1:08.2 | Those leaks produced countless news stories around the world about real matters of life |
| 1:12.6 | and death. |
| 1:14.1 | But Manning's trial isn't news. |
| 1:16.4 | In early June, the TV network stood brief reports about the beginning of the trial, and |
| 1:21.0 | that was basically the last viewers heard or saw of it. |
| 1:25.2 | It's not that there is no time. |
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