Mark Rusman Miller is a professor of media culture and communication at New York University.

I think you actually teach a course on Propaganda, which has been one of your focuses for many,

many years. Mark is my friend. He's the author of too many books to even list here. His essays,

articles of beard and many journals, magazines, newspapers, art and nation in the world.

In 2004, Miller wrote the Patriot Act, a show that he performed for six weeks,

said to your theater workshop, that is more relevant than ever today. He's a recipient of

fellow chefs from the Rockefeller, Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundation's Millers on the

Board of the Organization for Propaganda Studies and International Consortium as scholars and

the Alliance for Human Research, protection, who's called this prevent or correct violations of

informed consent in medical research. Mark, welcome to the podcast. Thanks a million for having me

on again, Bobby. I appreciate it. I've always left talking to you. There's a couple of things I

wanted to talk about. One, you have a piece that ran this week about the Oscars, and particularly about

the Ian Memoriam section of the Oscars, but you've also published a list of people who died suddenly,

and I want to talk to you about those issues. You've actually your take first on the Oscars.

Yeah, I suffered through the Oscars and was quite struck by many things about it, and this does not

mean that it was sponsored by Pfizer. Yes, that's a crucial point, sponsored by Pfizer and

BioNTech, just like most TV news, right? It's brought to you by Pfizer. I think that that

sponsorship has everything to do with a particular egregious moment in a broadcast filled with

egregious moments. This one was the annual necrology, they call it in Memoriam, where they

honor the memory of those who left us over the previous year. Now, formally, they would do this

with some dignity, creating a kind of quiet moment in the midst of this raucous spectacle,

which would be taken up with a montage, usually without music, sometimes with somber music,

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