EXPOSING BILLIONAIRES' BIAS ON BROADCAST NEWS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 October 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Thom reflects on the passing of retired U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr., Donald Trump getting Boos and “Lock Him Up” chants at World Series Game 5, and studies the many reported deaths of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before last weekend's announcement. Judd Legum at Popular Information speaks with Thom about new news about facebook. Book Club reading, "Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America" by Christopher Wylie. Pam Vogel from Media Matters joins Thom to talk about the fairness doctrine and what Sinclair Broadcasting is doing. Sinclair Broadcasting had only one commentator, Boris Epstheyn who used to work for the Trump campaign and was briefly in the administration. He is now their chief political commentator. This gave just one editorial voice, and this gave no editorial balance. Thom reads from "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" by David E. McCraw. Pacifica Radio Board Vice Chair Sabrina Jacobs brings an update on the pause of New York's WBAI station.
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:26.2 | To start out on not a happy note, Congressman John Conyers passed away, or former Congressman |
| 0:31.6 | John Conyers, he was 90 years old. I just wanted to |
| 0:34.4 | acknowledge him. He was just an extraordinary man. He was also a good friend of |
| 0:38.9 | Tim Carpenters, who was the founder of Progressive Democrats of America, and I was on their board for years and |
| 0:44.6 | Conyers back in April of 2014 came to a PDA meeting and gave a talk. |
| 0:50.4 | He was a regular guest on this program he came on often particularly to talk |
| 0:54.4 | about his Medicare for all plan which he repeatedly introduced into the |
| 0:59.3 | House of Representatives just a good guy John Conyers so just wanted to start with that. |
| 1:05.0 | Trump goes to the baseball game and gets booed. |
| 1:09.0 | And then they start a chant of lock him up at a hundred decibels. |
| 1:13.9 | I mean this is the at the level of sound of a jet engine. |
| 1:17.9 | He was not happy. |
| 1:20.2 | Meanwhile al-Bagdaddy was killed. It's interesting, you know, Trump has released this picture and talked about how he was there through the whole thing. |
| 1:28.0 | They actually had to delay this by almost a month because he screwed everything up by pulling our troops out of Syria or |
| 1:35.0 | out of that you know northern strip. Gary Casperov tweets surely Putin and |
| 1:42.4 | Erdogan gave up al-Baggdadi in exchange for Trump abandoning northern Syria and |
| 1:47.0 | the Kurds, a quid pro quo, I believe it is called. |
| 1:50.0 | Either they gave him up or they simply declined to warn him this time. |
| 1:56.5 | That's interesting. |
| 1:58.3 | The Russian Foreign Ministry announced over the weekend that they were skeptical that El Baghdadi had been killed |
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