#481: Divide and Conquer - Are You Falling Victim to the Propaganda? w/ Tony Brasunas
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The disinformation and "fake news" is prevalent.
Today's guest, Tony Brasunas, is here to expose the truth.
His new book, Red, White & Blind: The Truth About Disinformation and the Path to Media Consciousness, aims to help Americans defend our rights to Free Speech and a Free Press. And he's here today to share some of his research, inform you of the dangers, and let you know what you can do to take back control.
- Is the corporate news media an organ of deception? [8:55]
- Why is the current state of censorship so dangerous? [16:15]
- Values or politics? [25:45]
- Beware of these 3 types of bias. [38:22]
- Is there a way to right the wrongs of the past 3 years? [44:56]
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| 0:00.8 | My friends censorship is at an all time high in this country. We know it and we don't like it. |
| 0:08.4 | Without freedom, we don't have fitness. So I think it's important to address this on this |
| 0:12.8 | episode with my guest, Tony Brasunis. He's an independent journalist. He was censored and sacked |
| 0:18.2 | by Huffington Post in 2016 for doing something that they did not like. He's been researching |
| 0:23.5 | censorship, media distortion and disinformation in America for five years now with the distinct |
| 0:29.2 | hope that the underlying facts about fake news in America and the disinformation that has |
| 0:34.3 | peddled every day in our corporate media will inspire Americans to exercise and defend our rights |
| 0:40.0 | to free speech and a free press. So if you're a man, a woman, a child who wants to continue to live |
| 0:48.8 | in a free country with free speech, listen to this episode. Check it out. I think you're going to love it. |
| 0:59.2 | All right, Tony, welcome to the show. Thank you for being here. Could you just give everyone a |
| 1:07.9 | little bit of background information on you? Just kind of a quick introduction. Sure. Yeah, my name is |
| 1:12.2 | Tony Brasunis. I'm an independent nonpartisan freelance journalist. I was writing for the Huffington |
| 1:17.7 | Post before I was censored and sacked from that during the 2016 election. I would say in retrospect, |
| 1:26.0 | was covering from a perspective a little too friendly to Bernie Sanders. Since then I started |
| 1:32.2 | researching censorship as a whole in large and propaganda as well and started writing this book |
| 1:39.4 | that's now red, white and blind in 2019. And the book is forthcoming here in a couple months. So |
| 1:45.1 | that's a little bit about me. So you mentioned there that you were sacked by the Huffington Post in |
| 1:50.2 | 2016. Can you tell that story? Sure, absolutely. Yeah, so I was writing for Huffington Post in |
| 1:57.6 | 2016. Things were going well. As I mentioned, I was covering the primary from the Bernie Sanders |
| 2:03.2 | perspective a bit. And it was a perspective that was not as common in the mainstream media for some |
| 2:09.6 | reasons we could get into. And so my pieces often would get quite a lot of attention. I would get |
| 2:14.9 | 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, sometimes 100,000 views and make the front page of Huffington Post that |
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