(2014/12/02) Proof of the multiverse theory (Media)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 December 2014
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #880
Today we take a look at the fact that the divisions in our media consumption are creating perspectives of the world which are utterly unrecognizable to one another
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Who Controls The News - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date 8-22-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: This Is an Advertisement - This Is an Advertisement - Single
Ch. 4: Act 2: It depends on how you define news - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 10-31-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Pompeii - Bad Blood
Ch. 6: Act 3: No, "Liberal" Pundits. Midterm Elections Do Not Show Dems Need to Stop Being "Hard Left" - @majorityfm - Air Date: 11-06-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: Praise You - The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder
Ch. 8: Act 4: What has Happened to News in America? - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 10-15-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: The Walls Are Coming Down - Reservoir
Ch. 10: Act 5: Bengazi scandal debunked by GOP-lead investigation - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 11-28-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Bad News - 808s & Heartbreak (Exclusive Edition)
Ch. 12: Act 6: A Nation in Fear - @MumiaAbuJamal - Air Date: 10-20-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Fear - Fearless
Ch. 14: Act 7: NBC's balanced coverage of voter fraud - @jimmy_dore Show - Air Date: 10-25-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Clementine - Suburban Nature
Ch. 16: Act 8: Media is the big winner in elections - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date: 11-07-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Doing Business - Transfer
Ch. 18: Act 9: Conservatives Trust News Like This, Liberals Trust News Like That - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 10-25-14
Ch. 19: Song 9: Hide the Truth - Coming Up, Vol. 1
Ch. 20: Act 10: Conservative media creates parallel universe - Rachel @Maddow Show - Air Date: 11-10-14
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Thoughts on medical personnel strikes - Colin from Cleveland, OH
Ch. 22: Responding to street harassment episode - Aaron from Pennsylvania
Ch. 23: Switching to 100% renewable energy was cheaper - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 24: Final comments on Ethical Electric and National Day of Mourning
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:16.5 | Now welcome to the award winning Best of a Left podcast with clips today from the Jimmy |
| 0:20.6 | Dorsho, CounterSpin at the majority report, The Tom Hartley program, Mumia Abu Jamal, |
| 0:25.8 | the Young Turks and the Rachel Maddo Show. |
| 0:28.0 | You know, you turn to any Sunday news show and it's 90% conservative. |
| 0:33.7 | Corporate mouthpieces or military people fulfilling their Sunday morning pledge to give voice |
| 0:38.6 | to the wealthy and powerful. |
| 0:40.9 | The media is corporate, not liberal. |
| 0:43.0 | They serve the corporate interests first, last and in the middle. |
| 0:46.1 | The news is funded by advertisers, corporations like Walmart, the drug companies, city group |
| 0:51.1 | and Boeing. |
| 0:52.8 | Those are the people for whom the news is really prepared. |
| 0:55.7 | Yes, the very people the newsman is supposed to be investigating are actually the ones funding |
| 1:00.8 | his investigation. |
| 1:02.8 | More accurately, they are funding the media's non-investigation banks, defense contractors |
| 1:09.1 | and multinational corporation pulling the purse strings of the news. |
| 1:13.2 | Sounds like a regular liberal conspiratorial plot to me. |
| 1:16.5 | Yeah, the news media is liberal and bring brought to you by multinational corporations, |
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