Side Effects of Mainstream Media (with Mehdi Hasan)

Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 9.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are joined by Mehdi Hasan, journalist and founder of Zeteo, to discuss the failures of the media in the era of Trump's 2nd term, America's descent into facism, and how independent journalists are navigating this landscape.

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0:00.0	Small doses.
0:04.6	Self help from the hit.
0:06.0	Small doses.
0:07.1	We're talking at shit.
0:08.6	Small doses.
0:09.8	And keeping it real.
0:11.2	Small doses.
0:12.2	With me and in Seals.
0:14.1	It's so funky.
0:16.7	Hey guys.
0:17.9	Welcome to Small doses podcast.
0:19.6	I just try and be cheerful for y'all because I know we all going through it.
0:23.5	Even if you're not in the United States, I hope you're actually not going through it.
0:29.6	Welcome to another episode of Small Doses podcast, Artistic Intellectual Amanda Seals.
0:34.4	I never thought that I, actually, that's not really true. I never thought that I...
0:37.5	Actually, that's not really true.
0:38.9	I never owned that I would be a person in media talking about the news.
0:46.7	It was always very niche in like, oh, I'm discussing pop culture, albums, you know, things happening in that realm of the pop culture.
0:58.7	And now that I have really come to take up space deliberately as somebody who speaks about politics and social justice and hopes to effectively educate around
1:14.8	propaganda, manufacturing consent, et cetera, et cetera, I realize that mainstream media,
1:21.4	as it has existed for so long, is so far from what I would actually want from the news. Then comes along folks like
1:31.4	Medi Hassan, who is a really unique person in that he was very deeply, deeply, deeply ingrained
	...

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