Episode 16: Editorial Boards––Protectors of Establishment Ideology
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Citations Needed
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Editorial boards are the establishment voice from above, handing out decrees of moral and political import behind an anonymous byline. Major papers like The New York Times and The Washington Post have an Official Position and it's important that Important People hear the Official Important Position. But of what use is this 19th century artifact? Whose interest does it serve and why does it even still exist?
On today's show we attempt to answer these questions and more with guests Janine Jackson and Jim Naureckas of FAIR.org
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| 0:27.0 | Today's show we're going to go over the editorial board. |
| 0:29.9 | This is something that we talk about a lot. |
| 0:31.5 | Obviously it serves as a proxy for what the media consensus is. |
| 0:35.7 | There is rare opportunity in the business of media criticism where you can kind of solidify |
| 0:39.8 | what it is to be the media. |
| 0:41.3 | We throw the one in the term the media does this. |
| 0:42.9 | The media does that a lot. |
| 0:43.9 | Obviously it's a very broad brush. |
| 0:44.9 | But editorial boards, especially at the institutional papers like New York Times, The |
| 0:48.5 | Washington Post. |
| 0:49.5 | Small Street Journal. |
| 0:50.5 | Yeah, Chicago Tribune, Mercury News, LA Times, New York Daily News. |
| 0:55.0 | But these are kind of a window into what the establishment consensus is and what purpose |
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