CEO of Empire: Trump's Team of Far Right Hawks & Era of "Fake News"

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2016

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Donate to the Media Roots Radio podcast on Patreon: bit.ly/2fHp5gO Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Donald Trump's disturbing list of far right, neocon appointees and their nebulous connections with the military industrial complex; the origin of real "fake news" from Matt Drudge, to Andrew Brietbart to InfoWars and their fostering of racism and Islamophobia online; the need for a real movement under what could become a highly repressive and dangerous Cheneyesque era. www.mediaroots.org twitter.com/abbymartin twitter.com/fluorescentgrey

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0:10.0	A Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host, Abby Martin.
0:41.1	And this is your host, Robbie Martin.
0:42.9	So we have a new way for you guys to donate if you like Media Roots Radio.
0:46.9	We really thank everyone for their support, for their comments, for listening to this series.
0:52.0	The link is Patreon, and it's going to be in the SoundCloud timeline, and it's just a
0:56.6	great, great avenue for people to donate to journalists that they like, and this podcast
1:01.1	does take a little bit of labor of love and work, and we would really appreciate if
1:06.4	anyone could donate either a one-time donation or monthly to keep it going.
1:11.5	We really want to do either at least monthly, absolutely, if not bi-monthly.
1:16.9	And that's going to depend on obviously how much support we get.
1:21.3	Yeah.
1:21.9	And we're just talking mostly about when you and I do it together, I'll probably still be doing
1:26.8	solo episodes while you're
1:28.7	working on Empire Files in between those. So at least two episodes a month and at least one
1:35.9	from Abby and I, if not two, per month. But yeah, so we already did an episode um a couple weeks ago about just the aftermath of the
1:50.3	election and how surreal everything was um but things just seem to be getting even more surreal
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