(2013/09/15) Media that leads you to war (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 September 2013
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #755
Media that leads you to war
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Comparing Their News To Our News - The Bill Show - Air Date 8-10-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Aloha Ke Akua - Nahko and Medicine for the People
Ch. 4: Act 2: Journalism is not Terrorism - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 08-19-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: The sound of settling - Death Cab For Cutie
Ch. 6: Act 3: Bradley Manning: Journalists Exploited the Leaks, Ignored the Leaker - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-21-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Tom Brokaw Blues - Jonas Friddle
Ch. 8: Act 4: Marty Kaplan on the Weapons of Mass Distraction Part 1 - Moyers And Company - Air Date 7-12-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Never gonna learn - Jont
Ch. 10: Act 5: Defending The NSA Surveillance - CounterSpin - Air Date 8-16-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Everlong - Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Marty Kaplan on the Weapons of Mass Distraction Part 2 - Moyers And Company - Air Date 7-12-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Razorwire (Instrumental) - Chris Priest
Ch. 14: Act 7: Fox Analyst's Position On War Powers Act Depends On How He Can Attack Obama - Media Matters Minute - Air Date: 09-03-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Razorwire (Instrumental) - Chris Priest
Ch. 16: Act 8: Lethal Efficiency Of US Weapons - CounterSpin - Air Date 9-6-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Live and Let Die - Guns N' Roses
Ch. 18: Act 9: How US Media Is Pushing For War With Syria - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-28-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: $15 minimum wage would create upward pressure on wages - Will from Tallahassee
Ch. 20: The human side of the drug war - Anonymous
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 21: Final comments on holistically looking at gun violence
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:12.0 | left9. Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast |
| 0:16.0 | with clips stay from The Bill Show, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Majority Report, |
| 0:20.0 | Moyers & Company, CounterSpin, The Medium Matters Minute, and The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.0 | And evidently, there it was a worldwide alert |
| 0:34.0 | for a terrorism since the last show and they had to close |
| 0:40.0 | a whole lot of embassies. Did you hear about that? I didn't hear about that. |
| 0:44.0 | You know the first thing I thought about is |
| 0:46.0 | but we had a way to warn all the people |
| 0:50.0 | some color-coded thingy. Yeah, during that time |
| 0:54.0 | the Obama got rid of that. And now we need it again. |
| 0:58.0 | The children, oh my god. Listen, what really was the story? |
| 1:02.0 | And first of all, let me not deny that there are terrorists |
| 1:06.0 | around the world, okay? Fine. There may be one right now. |
| 1:10.0 | We're not saying there isn't. But what we have noticed since |
| 1:14.0 | what I've noticed, since we have lived overseas, is the difference in |
| 1:18.0 | media coverage between what I see when I go home |
| 1:22.0 | and what is rational. |
| 1:26.0 | Well, but the whole argument is to be fair. |
| 1:30.0 | In America, the cable news industry |
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