Ep. 36 - Atlanta Bridge Collapse: Was It A Homeland Security Training Exercise?

The Propaganda Report

Brad Binkley

News, Comedy, News Commentary, Daily News

4.6 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Thursday, April 6th, 2017 - Was the Atlanta Bridge collapse part of a massive, Department of Homeland Security, emergency response exercise that happen to be going on all around Georgia the same week as the fire? In today's episode, we analyze some of the events surrounding the fire, as well as two of Governor Nathan Deal's press conferences. In the first, a press conference held on March 27th, 2017, Governor Deal highlights the multi-agency emergency training exercise going on across Georgia. In the second, held on April 3rd, Governor Deal discusses how Atlanta will move forward after the March 30th bridge collapse. BOOKS REFERENCED Propaganda, by Edward Bernays Crystallizing Public Opinion, by Edward Bernays FEMA PUBLIC INFORMATION MANUAL (It's 29 page. I was thinking of a different document) FEMA - Basic Guidance for Public Information Officers Subscribe to the Propaganda Report podcast on iTunes for weekly in-depth propaganda analysis by clicking here. If you’re an android user, subscribe on Google play by clicking here. Donate and Support the Show Via Patreon, and/or help out by sharing the show with your family and friends. Check out our new website for weekly propaganda analysis by clicking here. Check out Monica’s blog here. Click Here To Subscribe To Brad’s Youtube Page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the propaganda report with Monica Perez and Brad Binkley on today's episode.
0:05.0	Was the Atlanta Bridge Collapse a Chance event?
0:08.0	Or was it part of a massive emergency response exercise that happened to be going on in Georgia that very same week.
0:15.8	We analyze the news surrounding the event, including some clips of statements made by Governor
0:22.0	Nathan Deal before and after the bridge collapsed.
0:25.0	Here's Monica.
0:27.0	This is episode 36 of the propaganda report.
0:31.0	I am Monica Perez with Brad Bingley. Hi Brad how are you?
0:37.0	I'm good how are you? Good I we have so much to cover I think it's been a while since we did a proper propaganda report
0:45.9	We're getting back on the air on WSB so a lot of the stuff lately has been the radio show
0:51.7	But we can get into a lot more depth here
0:54.6	because we don't have to watch the clock
0:56.6	or and we don't take calls and we have a little more time.
1:00.9	So I want to catch up on some of the things that have happened recently,
1:05.4	especially at a local story that went national, a local to Atlanta, but it was getting
1:11.3	national press. the bridge collapse on I-85, which everybody's known about,
1:18.0	but what people probably didn't realize is that there was a spectacular story that happened before that.
1:25.0	So let me just give it to you in a nutshell.
1:28.0	And then I know that you've done an awful lot of work and research on it so let's hear what you've got but
1:34.3	let me just tell you what happened on Thursday March 30th there was breaking news on
1:41.7	a jacc the Atlanta Journal Constitution, that said, I actually printed
1:48.6	out the very short articles.
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