TMBS ReAir: 119 - Lessons From the UK & How We Win Here ft. Joshua Kahn Russell

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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TMBS aired on December 17th, 2019.

Episode summary:

What are the lessons from the UK election for our movement.

Joshua Kahn Russell joins us to talk about spirituality and activism.

During the GEM, David breaks down the expansion of global debt.

Shoutout to protesters for shutting down PG&E and demanding that it comes under public ownership.

Evo Morales speaks after the coup.

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0:00.0	Professor Chomsky, can we start by listening to explain what the propaganda model as you
0:17.1	call it is? For many people the idea that propaganda is used by democratic rather than
0:22.8	the authoritarian government will be a strange one. Well the term propaganda fell into
0:29.3	disfavor at the around the second world war but in the 1920s and the 1930s it was commonly
0:35.7	used and in fact advocated not by leading intellectuals by the founders of modern political
0:41.8	signs by Wilsonian progressives and of course by the public relations industry as a necessary
0:48.7	technique to overcome the danger of democracy. The institutional structure of the media is quite
0:54.8	straightforward we're talking about the United States but it's not very different elsewhere. The
1:00.6	major there are sectors but the agenda setting media the ones that sort of set the framework for
1:05.9	everyone else like the New York Times and Washington Post and so on. These are major corporations
1:11.5	parts of even bigger conglomerates like other corporate institutions they have a product with
1:18.0	anti-market. Their market is advertisers that is other businesses. Their product is relatively
1:25.1	privileged audiences more or less. The selling audiences are selling privileged audiences. These are
1:30.2	big big corporations selling privileged audiences to other corporations. Now the question is what would
1:36.5	a what picture of the world would a rational person expect to come out of this structure then
1:41.6	we draw some conclusions about what we'd expect and then we check and yes that's the picture
1:45.8	of the world that comes out. And is this anything more than the idea that basically the press is
1:51.8	relatively right wing with some exceptions because it's owned by big business which is a
1:56.6	truism as well don't. Well I would call the press relatively liberal. Here I agree with the
2:01.4	right wing critics so especially the New York Times and the Washington Post which are called
2:06.9	without a trace of irony the New York Times is called the establishment left in say major foreign
2:13.2	policy journals and that's correct but what's not recognized is that the role of the liberal intellectual
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