From Colonial Lies to AI Deception: The Dangerous Legacy of Fake News in America
The Wright Report
Bryan Dean Wright
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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In this special deep dive, Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, takes you on a journey through the history of Fake News in America—starting from the 1700s with colonial agitators like Samuel Adams, through the yellow journalism of Pulitzer and Hearst, all the way to today's challenges with AI-generated misinformation. This episode unpacks the dangerous implications of fake news, its impact on politics and society, and what we can do to discern the truth in a media landscape increasingly dominated by bias and sensationalism. Tune in to understand why fake news isn't just a modern problem—it's a threat that has shaped our nation from the very beginning.
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." - John 8:32
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| 0:00.0 | It's August 14th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, gentlemen welcome to the right report your daily news |
| 0:21.0 | podcast today is a special focus on Your Daily Podcast Podcast. |
| 0:23.0 | Today is a special focus on the state of America's news, |
| 0:26.0 | although a lot of you may have taken to calling it fake news. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, as you're about to hear, that label is actually pretty fair. |
| 0:33.4 | In fact, fake news in this country goes all the way back to the 1700s. |
| 0:37.6 | So that is what we will cover today asking, |
| 0:40.3 | how bad is fake news in this country really and why should we care? |
| 0:45.0 | In other words, what does it matter if the media spreads falsehoods? |
| 0:48.0 | What could possibly go wrong? |
| 0:50.0 | Well, as it turns out a lot, including the death of a president, and if we are not careful, |
| 0:55.6 | the death of the country. So that is what we will talk about today on the special deep dive into |
| 1:00.6 | America's fake news industry. It is updated and refreshed from a brief |
| 1:04.8 | that I gave you over one year ago. So we start with this. The name Thomas |
| 1:10.2 | Hutchinson probably doesn't mean much to you today but if you were in colonial |
| 1:13.8 | America it sure did he was a graduate of Harvard back in 1727 he went on to become a very |
| 1:20.2 | wealthy man then a politician first in the city of Boston, then the governor of Massachusetts, |
| 1:25.5 | which of course at the time was still under the rule of the British crown. |
| 1:29.8 | Now Hutchinson was a loyalist. |
| 1:32.1 | He wanted to remain a subject of the monarchy but others in |
| 1:34.7 | Massachusetts did not. To include John Adams and his second cousin, Samuel Adams. |
| 1:41.1 | Now Sam Adams, he had a lot of gifts. One of them that most of us probably know about |
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