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And welcome back. I am so happy to have on the line as our first guest for the new year

our old buddy Lisa Graves, the president and executive director and editor-in-chief at True North

Research, the president of the board of directors for the center for media and democracy,

TrueNorthResearch.org, and Lisa Graves on Twitter, L.I.S.A. Graves, and it's true North on Twitter.

Lisa, welcome back. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year Tom. I've been enjoying your show so much over the past year and your writings over

the break have just been so penetrating. Thank you for having me on my friend.

Well, thank you and back at you. So you've got this piece, How the Coke Network hijacked the war on

COVID. This was actually Walter Braggman and Alex Koch wrote this, but this particular one that

I'm looking at. But what is going on with the Coke Network and can we just even define the

Coke Network here? Well, you know, that is a, that piece I'm so proud of the work of the center

for media democracy on that piece. It really probed into the structures that George Basin,

the Mercated Center, and other universities that Coke had funded and the program he has funded,

that it has really been trying to provide the scaffolding in many ways for this attack on

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