Episode 245: Don't Trust Mainstream Media

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Too many grapple today with common but un- or poorly-defined terms, especially "mainstream." What is mainstream? When it comes to mainstream news, I've got a simple suggestion, which I give you in this Episode 245: Don't Trust Mainstream Media.

In this episode, I read from: Tim Wu's book The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads; Upton Sinclair's book The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism; Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott's 2004 book Our Unfree Press: 100 years of Radical Media Criticism; and Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols 2010 book, The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again.

I played: Matt Taibbi from the November 30, 2022 Munk Debate; and Jeffry Dvorkin from his appearance on the podcast Canadaland. Musically, Bernie Sanders opened the show backed by KMFDM; and I'm closing today with Mistle Thrush.