The Media War w/ Adam Johnson and Eric Levitz

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Media critic Adam Johnson and New York Magazine's Eric Levitz on the media's warmongering attack on Biden's withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Further reading: nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/media-bias-biden-polls-approval-afghanistan-withdrawal.html thecolumn.substack.com/p/on-afghanistan-withdrawal-nyts-peter Sign up for Adam's Substack: thecolumn.substack.com Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our (coming soon) weekly newsletter

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1:18.5	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.
1:22.6	My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.
1:29.2	Biden did something good.
1:31.7	He pulled U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, finally ending the longest of America's Forever
1:37.3	Wars just under 20 years after it began.
1:41.8	There are no doubt fair criticisms, whether the U.S. handling of Afghan refugees or the
1:47.0	fact that a U.S. drone strike incinerated an Afghan family in what was purportedly a strike
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