4/14/23 Ted Galen Carpenter on the News Media’s Role in the American Empire

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Ted Galen Carpenter makes his first appearance on the show as a Senior Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Scott and Carpenter discuss his most recent book about the news media’s long history of enabling Washington’s disastrous foreign policy. They start with the campaign to get the U.S. involved in World War I and move up to the present day—touching on Vietnam, Iraq War I, Bosnia, Iraq War II, Syria and Ukraine. Discussed on the show: Unreliable Watchdog by Ted Galen Carpenter The Captive Press by Ted Galen Carpenter Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative Magazine and the National Interest. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
0:19.6	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.6	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
0:24.8	terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on
0:31.3	foreign policy and all available for you at
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0:46.0	Thanks you guys. On the line I've got Ted Galen Carpenter.
0:49.0	New Senior Fellow at the Libertarian Institute.
0:53.2	Welcome to the show, how you doing, Ted?
0:55.7	Well, thank you very much, Scott.
0:57.0	It's a pleasure to be affiliated with the Libertarian
0:59.6	Institute.
1:01.0	It's a new home, and I hope it'll be one that is very productive for both of us.
1:08.0	I'm sure it will be and you know we published books too and I know you like writing them so
1:12.8	Mark your calendar. All right and speaking of books your latest is
1:18.1	unreliable watchdog the news media and US foreign policy and this is really something else here.
1:27.2	How long have you been working on this thing?
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