Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Episode 162: WTN The Ad-Fueled Dumpster Fire
Play Now!When the news chooses to focus on everything politically except at an entire movement drastically changing the world, they fail everyone. Our news becomes nothing but the title of this Episode 162: The Ad-Fueled Dumpster Fire.I read quite a bit in this episode, namely: Three Wikipedia Articles relating to the World Trade Organization and the 1999 protests against the 20th Ministerial Conference here in Seattle; Peter Kruger's article "What Don't Most Liberals Realize?"; and a few sentences from Ha-Joon Chang's book Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism.I play: Al Franken singing to his campaign phone, from an interview he did on Terri Gross's show Fresh Air; Hillary Clinton's observation about half the supporters of her opponent gathered in a basket; and Jake Tapper talking with William McRaven about his endorsement. Musically, I weave Lee Rosevere's "Let's Start At The Beginning" throughout; and use Podington Bear's "New Old Toys" as a rant backing. KMFDM backs Henry Giroux's endorsement of civic literacy; and I close with Julie and Rolf and the Campfire Gang doing "Over the Rainbow".Links to that material can be found at the show notes at AttackAdsPodcast.Blogspot.com. (Oh, and I'll throw one more link at the notes to a This Is Hell! interview on trade agreements with Nick Deardon that is well worth hearing, but that I just heard and could not squeeze into this show.)
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Fascinating dive into the horrors of neoliberalism land.
ReplyDeleteI had an off-topic question.
Is it my pipeline, or do you not put your show notes in your RSS show description? I might be messing up my terminology here, so let me clarify.
I listen to this, and all my netcasts, through a netcast player app that is not one of the big few. As sar as I know, it's just a fancy audio playing front-end on top of an RSS reader.*
What I see when I click on the "notes" tab, is just the first paragraph of this article. No links to the relevant articles, not even a link to this page.
Other netcasts do have more comprehensive notes, so I knoweit is possible. I assume it has something to do with how your rss updates are structured.
Anyway, thought you should know if you're not aware.
*I do not love this app, so I am open to recommendations. Preferably somewhere in between, uninclusive, "Oh I use the fruity netcast app" and "Oh I just download the mp3's directly and play them on my mp3 player"
Hey, Pim!
DeleteAn excellent question. First point: my show notes exist only in their entirety (or what I determine to be their entirety) here on the show notes page on BS.
Why? Another excellent question.
When deciding to "do" this show, I found I had some difficult choices to make, so I read all I could about the shows I subscribed to. What they did, how they did it, how it appeared——Gods, it was all over the place. There is no consistency in presentation anywhere. Period.
That being the case, like the Buddha I chose the middle path.
The Fruities being the dominant player, I went with their limitation on "Description"—255 characters. (This only applies to shows before Episode 100.) That limit became the show description I entered into my pod host by default (even though I enter the Frootie description separately).
Next in line with more detail, the info for the mp3 itself. This has all the detail I read into the closing without html links. Finally, these show notes with links.
I chose to put the greatest density here simply because it encourages (at least, by default) comments to be put here. It's not my favorite place for comments for a variety of good reasons; but I have to choose a single repository or lose what I believe is the right of every producer, the ability to curate a show. Feedback is the Ur element of location, as I have mentioned in previous shows.
I am open to reformatting how I include info, but insist on keeping a single outlet as a repository of feedback and links.
I know, I know, that makes me an outlier in this age of multiple distribution networks desperately seeking the greatest audience. I must limit myself simply because I do not want the Attack Ads! Podcast to become this sprawling suburban-esque creature with no definable center, if only to simplify for me its production and management.
Oh, and congratulations! This excellent question is absolutely worthy of an episode or two in response!
Later!
—Jim
That makes sense. If there's a limitation to how long a show description can be in some apps, it makes sense to conform to the strictest limitation and put all additional information on a central place.
DeleteIn that case, though, I would recommend including a link to this page. I know you say where it can be found in the show, but I think many people tend to filter out URLs when they hear them.
Hey, Pim,
DeleteI can try that on the next show (Tomorrow!). We'll see if I make it!
Later!
—Jim
Wellp, the election is all over but the shouting... and there's still soooooooooooo much happytalk about how great Prez#46 is going to be for us on the Left side of town. The political advertising and PR campaigns didn't end with the election, everyone seems to be repeating the bogus ad jingles of their own accord. Once in awhile, as tonight, it's good to hear somebody else independently see just what I see. Ya didn't tell me anything in this episode that I didn't already know, but thanks for saying it anyway.
ReplyDeleteI think I've already hit the threshold where I'm going to projectile-vomit whenever I hear the aphorism, "it's our job to push him to the Left now." When his cabinet picks at the moment, the people he'll be working with shoulder-to-shoulder with every damn day, appear to be a sh#tshow of Neoliberal ghouls.
An ancient, prototypical blogger named Ioz -- who has probably been "off the air" for ten years by now -- put it real well: "I am sick to death of the endless, Sisyphean task of rolling the rock of the Democratic Party up the hill, only to have it roll the F*KK over me on its way back down."
Hey, Kevin,
DeleteThanks for the update. No, I still haven't plugged back into the news; and yes, I'm demonstrably happier.
I'm actually glad people feel enough about pushing left that it's become an aphorism. From news analysis shows (like Counterspin), all I hear is the super-mainstream news freaking out at any move that isn't "centrist", aka to the right, specifically to the neoliberal right.
A reason I could not for a moment aspire to political office or the support thereof: yeah, Sisiphean. Remember how Camus ended his essay on that rock enroller:
"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Bull. Shit.