News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"
In this News Brief we are joined by friend of the show, Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News, to discuss Democrats' pathetic, myopic, and nihilistic attempt to play the Racist Reverse Uno Card on Cong...
21 Feb 202440min
Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution
"Viet Cong Use Children as Human Shields," the Associated Press alleged in 1967. "'Civilian casualty?" That's a gray area," Alan Dershowitz argued in The Los Angeles Times in 2006. "We can't ignore th...
7 Feb 20241h 19min
Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media's Softball Treatment of 'Effective Altruism'
"Join Wall Street. Save the world," The Washington Post urged in 2013. "How to Know Your Donations Are Doing the Most Good," The New York Times proclaimed in 2015. "I give 10 percent of my income to c...
31 Jan 20241h 11min
News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide
In this public News Brief, we react to the media spin around the ICJ's genocide ruling against Israel and how framing by the NYT and BBC seeks to uphold the logic of the so called "war" creating said ...
26 Jan 202418min
Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine
"Make sense of the day's news and ideas," urges The Morning, a daily New York Times newsletter. "Get smarter, faster on news and information that matters to you," Axios assures its readership. "This i...
24 Jan 20241h 20min
Beg-A-Thon Announcement Jan 30: The Worst Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers
Get shredded! Get a hot trad wife! Close the Baxter Account! Join us Jan 30 at 8:30pm ET for a live show beg-a-thon with guest Hussein Kesvani, as we break down the most ridiculous and toxic rise-and-...
24 Jan 20242min
News Brief: Quantifying the Media's Selective Humanity in Gaza
In this News Brief, we are joined by Adam's anonymous co-author of their two recent studies—one of print and one of cable news—detailing US's media's double standards when covering the 'Gaza conflict....
19 Jan 202457min
News Brief: 5 Ways US Media Helps Put a 'Humanitarian' Spin on Gaza Ethnic Cleansing
In this News Brief, we detail how horrific population transfers, mass bombings, and collective punishment are spun as humanitarian gestures to protect civilians.
14 Dec 202340min
