A Former Disinformation Reporter is Running The Onion. Plus, Birds ARE Real.

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

From the disinfo beat to The Onion; The Birds Aren’t Real prank; and a history of psy-ops

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0:00.0	Former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon has been ordered to report to prison on July 1st.
0:05.0	With Info Wars facing Liquidation and the Epoch Times under investigation,
0:11.0	it's been a rough week for the pro-Trump media.
0:14.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:17.0	I'm Michael Lohanger.
0:19.0	Also on this week's show, how birds aren't real,
0:22.0	a completely made-up conspiracy theory, became a worldwide phenomenon.
0:26.8	They described eating turkey at Christmas and Thanksgiving as ritualized bird worship.
0:31.2	Part of an elaborate propaganda effort by the U.S. government to
0:35.2	inure us to the bird surveillance.
0:37.3	Plus, a journalist gives up the disinformation beat to buy a satirical fake news site.
0:44.3	The onion.
0:45.2	You're now a suit, Ben.
0:47.3	Yeah, that's right.
0:48.3	Is it complicated?
0:49.4	Is it easy?
0:50.6	You can't say this, but I'm in two tuxedos right now. It's one tuxedo inside of another tuxedo.
0:55.0	It's all coming up after this. Listen to Support it, WNYC Studios.
1:07.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:15.0	And I'm Michael Lohanger.
1:17.0	Last week was a rough one for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.
1:22.0	And this week, the gavel came down on some of his most ardent supporters in the right-wing media.
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