FIGHTING BILLIONAIRE PROPAGANDA
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
How do we reclaim an independent press so we can actually learn what our candidates will do and our elected officials are doing? By only talking about horse-races and scandals, the press is letting the GOP get away with murder, while keeping people ignorant about Democratic Party solutions to our problems.
David Brock from Media Matters for America joins Thom to discuss why our media is broken, and why Billionaire owned media is working as a propaganda arm of the oligarchs-- threatening our very democracy.
Plus- given the recent protests and internal instability in Iran, has Trump's policy there brought us closer to a nightmare scenario, what guest Jamal Abdhi calls a 'combustible moment'?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers in peace, freedom freedom and the American way |
| 0:23.9 | Tom Harbin here with you. By the way just a reminder we've got a new |
| 0:28.0 | podcast out it's called Science Revolution with Tom Harbin and wherever you find |
| 0:31.7 | fine podcasts it's weekly it's a weekly |
| 0:34.7 | podcast of basically the science news of the week. I want to get into what's going |
| 0:40.4 | on with the press right now and I think this is a real story |
| 0:45.4 | there's a new report out this just came out a couple days ago from Northeastern |
| 0:49.0 | University's school of journalism |
| 0:52.4 | they analyze ten thousand of journalism. They analyze 10,000 news articles about the 20-20 Democratic |
| 0:58.2 | candidates, you know, our field which is now what 12 I guess with a couple of billionaires in the crowd. |
| 1:04.0 | They came out of 28 different news outlets. |
| 1:08.0 | Ten thousand news articles. |
| 1:11.0 | And what they found was that policy now takes a backseat to scandals and |
| 1:17.2 | viral moments on the trail. This is from the research itself from the report |
| 1:22.2 | quote this tendency in turn |
| 1:24.4 | allows important issues such as health care climate change and reproductive |
| 1:27.6 | rights to fall off the agenda |
| 1:29.7 | every time a trump media cycle emerges in some new outrage or a flavor of the day controversy |
| 1:34.8 | pops up. |
| 1:38.0 | They said basically substantive issues have disappeared from coverage. |
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