#1131 Inflicting pleasure (Media and Propaganda)

Air Date: 09/08/2017

Today we look at our vapid media landscape and see how it lead, some would say inevitably, to the election of someone like Donald Trump

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: The destruction of facts - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 3-14-17

Ch. 3: Song 1:  Damage - Jimmy Eat World

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Ch. 4: Act 2: The Weaponization of 'Fake News' - The Breach - Air Date 8-29-17

Ch. 5: Song 2:  Le mystère de contre jour - David Ari Leon

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Ch. 6: Act 3: The search for truth-commited journalism falls down at both ends - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 3-31-17

Ch. 7: Song 3:  Honesty - Billy Joel

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Ch. 8: Act 4: Koch Donor Network Funds Propaganda Like Breitbart, Films & Pretty Much Everything You Can Think Of - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 06-30-17

Ch. 9: Song 4:  Laugh So You Don't Cry - Andy Davis

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Ch. 10: Act 5: The Trouble With Reality Part 2 - On the Media - Air Date 5-17-17

Ch. 11: Song 5:  Zissou Society Blue Star Cadets / Ned's Theme (Take 1) - Mark Mothersbaugh

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Ch. 12: Act 6: Joshua Green on how Bannon has changed politics for the worse - Primary Concerns from @NewRepublic - Air Date 7-25-17

Ch. 13: Song 6:  You're Not In On the Joke (iTunes Session) - Cobra Starship

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Ch. 14: Act 7: How "The Apprentice" Helped Make Trump President - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 4-13-17

Ch. 15: Song 7:  Million Dollar Loan - Death Cab For Cutie

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Ch. 16: Act 8: The Trouble With Reality Part 1 - On the Media - Air Date 5-17-17

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Voicemails

Ch. 17: The first and second amendments - Issac from Valencia, CA

Ch. 18: Oppression never dies, it always transforms itself and resurrects itself - V from Central New York

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

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Ch. 19: Final comments on the evolution of systems of oppression

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

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Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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