Episode #1: The Intro & 4 tips to Navigate the News
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English - October 16, 2020 08:01 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHistory News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new podcast! Our first episode focuses on four tips for consuming media:
1) Don’t look for absolute truth in the news, for it’s just the first draft of history.
2) Consider all sources critically -- including the top newspapers.
3) Follow the money, and you’ll see who pays to influence media narratives.
4) Let go of binary thinking. Liberal v. conservative is a 20th-century construct, and will increasingly become obsolete.
We give you a lot of examples in this episode! Here’s further reading for them:
Gulf of Tonkin Incident:
https://fair.org/media-beat-column/30-year-anniversary-tonkin-gulf-lie-launched-vietnam-war/
https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/gulf-of-tonkin/
NY Times’ Apology for Iraq War Coverage:
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html
Extreme Consolidation of Media Ownership:
https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/021815/worlds-top-ten-media-companies-dis-cmcsa-fox.aspx
On Paying for Media Access and Influence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/conservative-courts-leonard-leo/