(2014/05/31) The scales are systemically tipped (Media)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 31 May 2014
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Edition #831
The scales are systemically tipped
Today we look at just a few of the things that are fundamentally broken about the way our corporate media system works
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: MSNBC Silent On Cable Merger - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 4-18-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Show me something new - Shout Out Louds
Ch. 4: Act 2: Study: Fox News Climate Change Coverage 72% Misleading - @davidpakmanshow - Air Date: 04-10-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: I'm a pilot - Fanfarlo
Ch. 6: Act 3: The White House Correspondents Dinner: Why It's Weird - @majorityfm - Air Date: 05-08-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Washington, D.C. - The Magnetic Fields
Ch. 8: Act 4: Watchdogs in Tuxedos - @onthemedia - Air Date: 5-9-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Little Embarrassing - Rosemary's Sons
Ch. 10: Act 5: You Don't Even Know You're Being Manipulated - Lee Camp - Air Date: 04-02-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Opinions - Llewellyn
Ch. 12: Act 6: White male privilege in the new media - @radio_dispatch - Air Date 3-18-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: You're the storm - The Cardigans
Ch. 14: Act 7: Blurred lines - @onthemedia - Air Date: 5-9-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: I'm the slime - Frank Zappa
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Media Has FAILED The American People. Sen. Harry Reid MSNBC Interview - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 05-09-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Thoughts on education reform - Ben from Jersey
Ch. 18: A new way of looking at laws regarding relationships - Tayna in California
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 19: Final comments on why you should go check out the music of The Haymarket Squares
Closing Music:
Opinions - The Haymarket Squares
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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 bestofalf.com. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the award-winning Best of the Last Odd Jazz with Cups Today from Counter-Spin, |
| 0:12.7 | the David Pakman Show, the majority report on the media, comedian Lee Camp, radio dispatch, |
| 0:17.6 | and the young Turks. |
| 0:18.6 | Remember, don't trust anyone over 30. |
| 0:22.0 | No wait, I read that wrong. |
| 0:23.6 | Don't trust anyone with over 30 subsidiaries. |
| 0:27.6 | That's right. |
| 0:29.6 | A liberal-leaning Democrat is waging a somewhat lonely but passionate fight against a mega-corporate merger. |
| 0:36.6 | Sounds like the sort of thing you'd see talked about on the Liberal-leaning cable channel MSNBC, right? |
| 0:43.6 | Well, not this time. |
| 0:44.6 | You see the politician, Minnesota Senator Al Franken, is the leading congressional opponent of Comcast's $45 billion bid |
| 0:52.6 | to take over Time Warner Cable. |
| 0:54.6 | And Comcast is MSNBC's parent company. |
| 0:58.6 | We noted previously how MSNBC mostly ignored announcement of the merger with the only substantial exception |
| 1:05.6 | being the two company CEOs enjoying a kind of victory lap on Morning Joe. |
| 1:11.6 | Franken's tough questioning of company officials at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing |
| 1:16.6 | got the attention of the New York Times, for instance, but so far only crickets at the company |
| 1:21.6 | crickets at the cable channel you'd think might be sympathetic to the views of Franken and the dozens of public interest groups |
| 1:28.6 | that have spoken out against the deal. |
| 1:30.6 | CNN, on the other hand, has done much more on the story. |
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