Media Literacy Is Dead with Photographer Eric Langberg
A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn
Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Gabe and fellow activist/photographer Eric Langberg discuss the uphill battle current photographers face during this moment of no media literacy, the misunderstanding of Vanity Fair's "bad" photos of the Trump administration, and the controversy of photographing protest movements and bystanders. Plus, what he chooses to photograph versus others at the same protests. Then, Eric fights with people on Reddit. And finally, we wonder what these ICE agents and people on the wrong side of history will feel about these photos in the future and figure out how to use whatever skills you have to help in the fight against fascism.
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| 0:00.0 | You got told a lot of lies about achievements. |
| 0:03.0 | They called you when they got you to believe it. |
| 0:06.0 | Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L ship trapped in a capital of salescape. |
| 0:10.0 | Let's buy back in have some talks about class in the massive costs of the disasters |
| 0:16.0 | plots are fascists and Nazis and Nazis and Nazis. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a thousand natural shocks. |
| 0:21.1 | A bad with money podcast. |
| 0:22.7 | Hello and welcome to a thousand natural shocks, a bad with money podcast. |
| 0:28.1 | I can't believe that I'm talking to you. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm hanging on to my mental health by a fucking thread. |
| 0:33.9 | I am your host, Gabe S. Dunn. |
| 0:37.4 | And with me today, I have a buddy in Los Angeles, but I'm sure if you have been following me, if you've been following any of the people that I've spoken to on this show, you have seen his photographs. And so, Eric, do you want to tell my audience who you are and what you do? As of now, I know what you do is insane, but as of now. No, yeah, exactly. |
| 0:55.4 | How do you even begin? My name is Eric Langberg. I am a writer. I'm a movie critic, just general |
| 1:01.0 | entertainment news, that kind of stuff. But then since June, I've been taking photographs of the |
| 1:05.9 | protests in LA against ICE. Big actions, little things, city council meetings, anything that I can feel that |
| 1:11.6 | I can help amplify. I've been going to photograph. And what was the first thing you went down to |
| 1:16.1 | photograph? So my first day down there was June 11th, which was a couple of days after like the |
| 1:22.1 | burning Waymos. There was a press conference down there that was given by, I believe, Centra CSO at the time. |
| 1:28.2 | And so I went down to the MDC that day. |
| 1:30.6 | And by then the Marines were here and the National Guard was here. |
| 1:34.0 | And it was just, it was wild. |
| 1:35.9 | So they've been going back ever since. |
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