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Now, welcome to the award-winning bestipalev podcast

with clips today from in deep with Angie Koyro,

the Ralph Nader radio hour, last week tonight

with John Oliver, counterspin, the young Turks,

Papaganda from Bitch Media,

and an interview with Christian Aminpor from the CBC.

I wanna talk about the role of the media as a whole.

I was listening to some post-election commentary today

and one of the analysts said he's had it up to here

with the candidates and all the candidates did it.

They all bash the media now as though the media is monolithic.

They're not monolithic.

I've worked in a newsroom.

Most media are intent on getting the news out.

They're on deadline.

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