Episode 650 | How Independent Media Reflects and Serves the Current Power Structure

The Benjamin Dixon Show

News, Politics

4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This is part one of four podcasts based on two hours of conversations I had with @MediaStudied, @QGotNoRings, and @Deuce1042 (all on twitter) about how independent media both reflect the current power structure and, in its own way, is merely fulfilling a function of the current power structure.
We get into the weeds a bit, but it was an important conversation -- especially for me.

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0:45.0	So I've got a lot of content that I'm sending your way over the next couple of days.
0:50.0	Today is part one of a conversation that I had with Professor Matt Sinkowitz. We had an hour-long
0:55.4	conversation and it's about the lanes that are afforded to individuals in this power structure and particularly from the perspective of
1:07.0	independent media and yeah that's a really robust conversation and we do get into a lot of
1:16.7	different facets of it but I'm pretty confident that you can hang with the
1:21.1	conversation because I mean it's pretty much what I do on a
1:25.2	regular basis but just imagine with two people chasing tangents that are relevant
1:31.7	that are you know by definition tangential, and are, they
1:37.2	elucidate more of what we're trying to explain, but we, there's no lane that we don't go after to explore this idea of the role that we as individuals
1:50.1	play in participating in this power structure even when we think we are anti-establishment.
1:59.0	Right.
2:01.0	And just to give you a quick synopsis at the conclusion of this, we came to to an agreement that there, there are, there's the liberal progressive establishment there's the
2:15.4	conservative establishment and there's the anti-establishment
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