(2014/04/01) No corporate news is good news (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 1 April 2014
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Edition #814
No corporate news is good news
Today we take a look at the various ways the corporate media regularly embarrasses itself while in search of ratings from ever-more narrow slivers of potential viewers.
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: The plane is not in a black hole - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 03-20-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Bedtime stories - Chris Reed
Ch. 4: Act 2: Keeping Conspiracies Secret And Speculation In The News - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date: 3-21-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Empty - The Cranberries
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox Host Explains Missing Flight with Finding Noah's Ark - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 03-24-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Flat Earth Society - Bad Religion
Ch. 8: Act 4: News, No Experts, Just Diversity Of Speculation - le Show (@theharryshearer) - Air Date 3-23-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Good people - Jack Johnson
Ch. 10: Act 5: PBS Gets On Its Knees For Billionaires | Integrity Is Dead - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-14-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Ch. 12: Act 6: CNBC: Climate Change is Witchcraft! - @majorityfm - Air Date: 03-05-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra
Ch. 14: Act 7: NBC's MTP Debates Climate Change, Truth vs. Nonsense - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 2-21-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Nonsense - Komeda
Ch. 16: Act 8: You Can Now Drive Across The US For Free, Mainstream Media Ignores It - @LeeCamp - Air Date: 03-11-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Electric car - They Might be Giants
Ch. 18: Act 9: Laughably Biased or Fair & Balanced Climate Change Debate? - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-18-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: S.O.S. - The Suicide Machines
Ch. 20: Act 10: Climate Change, The Media Is The Message - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 3-21-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 21: The problem with the media's coverage of climate change - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 22: The queer experience - Sonya from Minnesota
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 23: Final comments on conservatives believing in free lunches
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, for details visit |
| 0:06.6 | the membership tab at bestofalf.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cubsiday from All In |
| 0:12.2 | With Chris Hayes, the Jimmy Doar Show, the David Pakman Show, Lesho, the Young Turks, |
| 0:16.7 | the Majority Report, Counter-Spin and Comedian League Camp, and to save time, you may want |
| 0:20.9 | to begin shaking your head and despair and weeping for humanity now. |
| 0:30.0 | A lot of people have been asking about that about black holes and on and on and on and all |
| 0:34.3 | of these conspiracy theories. |
| 0:35.3 | Just look at this, Noah says, what else can you think about black hole, Bermuda Triangle |
| 0:39.2 | and then Deji says, huh, just like the movie lost and of course, it's also referencing |
| 0:44.6 | the twilight zone, which is a very similar plot. |
| 0:48.1 | That's what people are saying. |
| 0:49.1 | I know it's preposterous, but is it preposterous, you think, Mary? |
| 0:52.5 | Well, it is a black hole is about, you know, a small black hole would suck in our entire |
| 0:57.4 | universe. |
| 0:58.4 | That's not that, Muda Triangle is often weather and lost is a TV show. |
| 1:04.8 | Have you noticed that the coverage of this missing flight has gotten a little out of hand |
| 1:08.9 | lately? |
| 1:09.9 | For the record, that guest was right or at least close. |
| 1:12.2 | A black hole wouldn't really swallow the whole universe, but it certainly would swallow |
| 1:16.0 | the earth if there was a black hole near enough to take down a plane. |
| 1:20.0 | And yes, lost is a TV show. |
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