Jon Schwarz on Inflation, Enrique Armijo on Alex Jones

The Wall Street Journal (2/3/21) explains inflation. This week on CounterSpin: If you read a paper, you know that inflation is a dire, important thing right now, a problem for the Biden administration, for economic policymakers, and for…regular folks who want to buy milk? You don’t need to understand it, elite media seem to say, but you do need to be mad about it, and direct blame for it toward…yourself? Jon Schwarz writes about elite media’s confusing and conflicting instructions around inflation, among other things, at the Intercept; we’ll talk with him about the current economic reality—and storyline. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin211119Schwarz.mp3 Transcript: ‘They Do Not Tell Both Sides of the Inflation Story’ Alex Jones Also on the show: Ethically deficient radio host Alex Jones‘ defamation case is a political story about the impact of energetic, intentional disinformation. It’s a media story about how the profitability of hateful BS seems to change the terms around whether things that call themselves news outlets should be held accountable for demonstrably harmful lies. And it’s a speech rights story about whether you can yell fire in a crowded theater and then say, Ha! any dummy would know I was just kidding (but I’m not kidding about these vitamin supplements, please buy them). We’ll ask, “How does the legal system solve a problem like Alex Jones?” with Enrique Armijo, professor of law at Elon University. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin211119Armijo.mp3 Transcript: ‘Now I Can Say Anything About You and Not Be Sued for It’