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Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars
"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdraw...
2021-04-14 15:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
In this News Brief, we break down the PR campaign against activists who want intellectual property rules suspended so that poor countries can manufacture their own generic vaccines.
Our guest...
2021-04-10 22:48:20 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: 'United States of Al' and the Persistence of the Good Muslim Native Informant
In this Patron News Brief, we discuss Chuck Lorre's new three camera sitcom United States of Al and the three acceptable Muslim characters: terrorists, victims and––as CBS carefully crafts for ...
2021-04-02 23:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: WaPo Editorial Board's Outright Lies on Bolivia Coup Are Part of 70-Year Tradition of Spinning for CIA
In this Patron-only News Brief we discuss The Washington Post editorial board's disinformation about election fraud in Bolivia and detail its 70 year history of covering for, supporting, and traffi...
2021-03-26 03:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: Austin Activists Combat Anti-Homeless Stigma in 'Prop B' Media Fight
In this public News Brief, we catch up with Austin activists Seneca Savoie and Chris Harris as they fight far right demagoguery, rich liberal NIMBY fence-sitting, and stigmatizing local media cover...
2021-03-24 15:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode 132: The House Always Wins — How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State
"It’s Time for a Domestic Terrorism Law," blares a Washington Monthly 2021-03-10 15:51:11 +0000 UTC View Post
News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"
On this News Brief, we discuss the ubiquitous weaponization of the term "taxpayer" in media and politics and how it deliberately smuggles right-wing, transactional and deeply racialized notions of ...
2021-03-03 15:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor
"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential workers." "Jeff Bezos ...
2021-02-17 15:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post02.16.21 Newsletter
Hello, dearest patrons!
Here is the latest newsletter with some recent articles we've been enjoying. Stay tuned for a new episode coming your way tomorrow and, as always, endless thanks and g...
2021-02-16 20:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn
In this public News Brief, we discuss how American media's lack of coverage and general. indifference to the Covid pandemic ravaging prisons and jails makes "riots" inevitable. Our guest, Patrice D...
2021-02-10 17:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: US Media Treats Amazon's Wage Theft as Mere Clerical Error
"Withholding," "misusing," "used to subsidized" - in this Patreon News Brief, we break down the legal and linguistic contortions required to make sure rich people are never accused of "stealing."&n...
2021-02-06 21:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 130: 'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media’s Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance
“We need a president whose vision was shaped by the American Heartland rather than the ineffective Washington politics,” declares presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. “AOC Kills Jobs Middle...
2021-02-03 16:24:33 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall Street's Game Rigging
In this News Brief we break down L'Affaire GameStop and the CNBC set's goofy, reverse-engineered moral justifications for being outraged by 2021-01-28 15:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Ep. 129 - Vaccine Apartheid: US Media's Uncritical Adoption of Racist "Intellectual Property" Dogma
“The COVID-19 vaccine is ripe for the blackmarket,” warns an NBC News opinion piece. “Iran-linked hackers recently targeted coronavirus drugmaker Gilead,” reports Reuters....
2021-01-27 16:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 128 - The “Healing” Con: How Warm and Fuzzy Appeals for "Unity" Are Used to Protect Power
"Biden Calls For Hope And Healing In Speech," NPR reports. "Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot calls for return to Sept. 11 unity," writes The Chicago Tribune. Following the 2014 Fergus...
2021-01-20 16:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: US Media Pathologically Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"
Following mob violence at the US capitol building, we breakdown how, once again, American media would rather ignore homegrown currents of white supremacist vigilantism and their buddy buddy relatio...
2021-01-07 07:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: US Media Uniformly Insists Bloated Pentagon Budget "Must Pass"
In this Patron-only News Brief we examine the curious phrase "must pass bill," which almost always applies to mindlessly bloating the US military budget.
2021-01-04 02:47:25 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: Wonder Woman Pays Homage to the Reagan Era with Gross 1980s-Style Orientalism
In this Patron-only News Brief, we review the holiday season's biggest (and only?) major release, Wonder Woman, and breakdown its bizarre, half assed anti-Muslim racism.
2020-12-29 21:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post12.22.20 Newsletter (and Citations Needed Reading List!)
Hi all,
Hope your holidays are going well as they can. Once again, thank you for your support.
In addition to this fortnight's newsletter (below), we have complied a r...
2020-12-22 21:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 127: Democratic Leadership's Predictable Scapegoating of 'Defund the Police'
"Sen. Mark Warner said progressives' calls to 'defund the police' were in part to blame for Democratic losses in the House in a cycle when the party was expected to gain seats," The Hill t...
2020-12-16 17:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 126: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn’t Rehash Under Biden (Part II)
This is the second installment of our scoldy, buzz kill, two-part episode on Obama-era media failures we should be on the look out for as the Biden administration takes office. On this episode, we ...
2020-12-09 18:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostNewsletter 12.8.20
Hi all,
Thank you so much as always for your continued support. We really really are very appreciative.
Here is this fortnight's newsletter. Hope you enjoy!
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2020-12-08 20:46:39 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: The ICE and Pentagon-Bloating Vagueness of the "Climate Change is a National Security Issue" Mantra
In light of John Kerry's new "national security" climate role, we follow up on Episode 122 by reading policy papers published by John Kerry's think tank. Hint: they want more money for the Pentagon...
2020-12-08 14:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 125: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn't Rehash Under Biden (Part I)
President-elect Joe Biden has promised what he calls a return to "decency" and "unity," and American media has broadly characterized his victory over Donald Trump as, in the words of New York T...
2020-12-02 17:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 124 - Mental Health During A Pandemic: How US Media Spins Societal Failures Into Personal Self-Help Journeys
A CNN headline from this past summer read: “Mental health during coronavirus: Tips for processing your feelings.” Psychology Today gave us an article on “Coping With Lonelin...
2020-11-25 19:11:38 +0000 UTC View PostNews Brief: It's Not a 'Fall From Grace', This Has Always Been Who Giuliani Was
In this News Brief, we talk with journalist Ashoka Jegroo about Giuliani's long history of racism, white liberal New Yorkers providing cover for his carceral sociopathy because they liked the resul...
2020-11-20 19:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostEp. 123: How Liberal Meta-Demands for "Investigations" and "Studies" Are Used to Silence Activists
"Joe Biden Calls For ‘Immediate, Full And Transparent Investigation’ Into Jacob Blake Shooting," Forbes reports. "Obama Fraud Task Force Takes on the Big Banks," Bloomberg News 2020-11-18 16:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
News Brief - Review: Netflix's Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film 'Hillbilly Elegy'
In this Sight Unseen film review, we recap the ideological currents and industry backers of J.D. Vance's White Trash Whisperer shtick and how it blames everyone for Appalachian poverty b...
2020-11-11 16:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostNewsletter 11.10.20
Hi all!
Thanks as always for your support and for those that showed up to the Election Night Discord hang. It was a lot of fun!
-- Florence, Marco, Julianne, Adam, and Nima <...
2020-11-10 20:22:33 +0000 UTC View Post