All Episodes

Ep 242 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 2: US Empire as Mysterious, Teleological Force

Ep 241 - The Disempowering Politics of 'Inevitability' Part 1: Data Centers and LLM as 'The Future'

News Brief: Very Serious New Yorker Article Launders Biden Officials' Responsibility for Gaza Genocide

News Brief: Why US Media Has Evoked Israel's "Right to Exist" 1,001 Times vs Only 6 For Palestine

Ep 240: How the Media's "Burden," the "Straining Resources" Framing Manufactures the Expendable Other

News Brief: Despite 9-Figure Infusion from Silicon Valley, Abundance Still Seeks Popular Support

News Brief: The ADL's Bogus Origin Story and Its Rise as Ideological Enforcer for Empire and Israel

Episode 239: The Vague, Capital-Serving Co-Optation of "Affordability" Politics

News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the New York Times

Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction

Live Show: 'How to Sell a Genocide' Book Talk at The Word Is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY

News Brief: "Peak TV," Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor

News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope

Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle

Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off

News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'

News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War

"Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates

News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago

Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News

News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism

Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy

News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis

News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian

News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota

Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center

News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy

Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms

Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour

Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism

News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value

News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock

News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028

Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo!

Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport

Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise

News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition

Ep 227: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part II)

Ep 226: The Importance of 'Seriousness,' or Why Palestinians Can't Be Witness to Their Own Genocide (Part I)

Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'

Episode 224: Corporate Self-Regulation and the Fine Art of 'Preempting" Public Outrage

News Brief: ADL, Corporate Media, Dem Elites Manufature "Antisemitism" Scandal to Discipline Mamdani

News Brief: Natural Disaster-izing the Deliberate US-Israeli Starvation Campaign in Gaza

News Brief: Pundits Speed-Run 15 Months of Iraq War Propaganda for Iran in Five Days

News Brief: US Media, Top Dems Assist Trump and Israel's Unprovoked Attack on Iran

Ep. 223: The Empire Strikes First, Part II — 'Abundance' Pablum as Counter to Left Populism

Ep 222 - The Empire Strikes First Part I: Party Elites Who Lost to Trump (Twice) Blame Everyone But Themselves

Episode 221: Anti-Science Mugging on the Right and the Ascent of American Anti-Intellectualism

News Brief: NPR Asks Starving Palestinian Living On Rubble to Denounce Hamas, Co-Sign His Own Ethnic Cleansing

News Brief: Baltimore Uprising 10 Years on: PR Co-option vs Genuine Reform

Episode 220: The Power of Thought-Terminating Bad Guy Labels

Ep 219: How Elites Concern Troll 'Waste' to Gut Social Welfare and Divide the Working Class

Ep 218: The Siren Song of Rallying Around a 'Common Enemy' to Promote Progressive Causes

News Brief: Dem Leaders, 'Free Speech' Warriors Mostly Shrug as Trump Disappears Political Dissidents

Episode 217: A.I. Mysticism as Responsibility-Evasion PR Tactic

News Brief: Trump's Hollow Working Class Aesthetics and How Unions Can Lead a Real Resistance

News Brief: Israel Kills Over 400 in 12 Hrs, Media Unsure if This Counts as Violating the 'Ceasefire'

News Brief: The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil and the Phony 'Campus Safety' Panic

Episode 216: Sunday Morning News Shows and the Problem With 'Agenda Setting' Court Stenography

Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: Ancient Rome and the False Histories Inspiring Musk & the MAGA World

News Brief: Silicon Valley Patronage, How To Subtly Drift Right, and the New Conservative Media Ecosystem

News Brief: Media Continues Painting Musk's Far Right Coup as Good Faith "Cost-Cutting Effort"

News Brief: Trump's Anti-Migrant Terror PR Strategy, Dr Phil's ICE Reality Show & NYT's MAGA Assist

News Brief: Media Won't Say a Nazi Salute is a Nazi Salute and How MAGA Became Too Big To Fail

Episode 215: "Bipartisanship" as High-Minded Rhetorical Cover for Pushing Rightwing Policies

News Brief: NYT Bars Quakers From Using "Genocide" in Ad and Liberal Squeamishness Over the "G" Word

Episode 214: Fake Ceasefire Talks and Feigned 'Concern' - How US Media Helped Distance Biden From the Gaza Genocide

Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

Episode 212: Gaza and the Political Utility of Selective Empathy

News Brief: Elite Media, Dems Blame 'Woke', 'Headwinds'––Everyone But Themselves––for Trump Win,"

Episode 211: Bari Weiss, The 'University' of Austin, and the Silicon Valley-Funded Faux-Iconoclast Media Industry

Episode 210: Seller's Inflation and the Super Serious Economists Mocking "Greedflation" "Conspiracies"

News Brief: Harris' Mid 2000s Neocon Re-Brand and Centrist Voters as Free Real Estate

Episode 209: Popularism and the "Poll-Driven" Democrat as Cover for Conservative Policy Preferences

Episode 208: How US Media Repackages Pro-Police Policies as "Reform"

News Brief: Media Incitement Against Haitian Migrants and JD Vance's Standpoint Theory for Bigoted Dopes

4 Talking Points Used to Smear DNC Gaza Protesters—And Why They're Bogus

Ep 207: US-Backed Killing of Journalists in Gaza and the Limits of "Freedom of the Press" Sloganeering

News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot

Episode 206: How the Gambling Industry Swallowed Sports Media Whole

Live Show 7/16/24: Paris, Power and Olympic Class War with Jules Boykoff

The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part II)- How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto Its Workers

The Great Neoliberal Burden Shift (Part I) - How Corporate America Offset Liability Onto the Public

News Brief: Unions, Gaza, and Labor's Checkered Relationship With US Militarism

Live Show: Student Organizers Breakdown Media Distortions Over Gaza College Encampments

Ep 203: Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part II: How Corporate Think Tanks Function as Influence Laundromats

Ep 202: Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part I: Democrats and the Black Box Corporate Consulting Industry

Episode 201: The Conservative, Faux-Erudite Rise of Nuance Trolling

News Brief: Axios, NYT Help White House Obscure Their Role in Rafah Invasion

News Brief: Campus Anti-Genocide Protests and the Weaponization of Squishy, Bad Faith "Safety" Rhetoric

Episode 200 - The Rise of the War on Drugs 2.0: This Time It's Different, We Promise

Episode 199: The Golden Age of Crybullyism

Episode 198: How The Atlantic Magazine Helps Sell Austerity and War to Middlebrow Liberals

News Brief: Media, Billionaires' Attacks on Homeless People May Pay Off Big at Supreme Court

Beg-A-Thon Live Show 1-30-24: The Grim Popularity of Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers

News Brief: How US Media Obscures the Violence of the Generic, Sterile-Sounding "Border Deal"

Episode 197: The "Human Shields" Canard as Catch-All Colonial Absolution

Episode 196: Benevolent Billionaire Despotism and US Media's Softball Treatment of 'Effective Altruism'

News Brief: The ICJ Ruling and the Essentialness of Squishy Western Liberal Support for Genocide

Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine

Beg-A-Thon Announcement Jan 30: The Worst Rise-And-Grind TikTok #Influencers

News Brief: Quantifying the Media's Selective Humanity in Gaza

News Brief: 5 Ways US Media Helps Put a 'Humanitarian' Spin on Gaza Ethnic Cleansing

Episode 194: The "Graying Population" Panic and the 90-Year War on Social Security

News Brief: Media Adopts Israel's Simplistic 'Hunt for Hamas' Narrative, Providing Cover For Ethnic Cleansing

Episode 193: How Military Jargon and Cliches Make Mass Death Seem Sterile (Part II)

Episode 192: How Military Jargon and Cliches Make Mass Death Seem Sterile (Part I)

Ep 191: How Media's Use of 'The Economy' Flattens Class Conflict

Live Show 10/30/23: 4 Arguments Against a Gaza Ceasefire and Why They're Bullshit

Live Show 10/16: Gaza Siege and the Liberal Handwringing Industrial Complex

Ep 190: Why Media Insists the US is "Forced" to Commit Human Rights Abuses

Ep 189: PragerU, the 'Product Of His Time' Defense and the White Guilt Amelioration Industrial Complex

News Brief: GOP, Corporate Media Attempt to Manufacture Conflict Between Autoworkers and Climate

Episode 188: How Capital Repackages Substandard Products for the Poor as "Increasing Access"

News Brief: Attack of the Salt of the Earth Republican Country Music Stars

Episode 187: Undercover Boss, Uber-Driving CEOs, and the "Empathetic Executive" Schtick

Episode 186: Nativism in Media (Part III) - IMF, NAFTA and Global Inequality By Design

Episode 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) - The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'

Episode 184: Nativism in Media (Part I) — How Dehumanization and Militarization Manufactured a "Border Crisis"

News Brief: As UPS Strike "Looms," Media Frames Working-Class Revolt as "Threat" to "The Economy"

News Brief: 2000s Zombie Neoliberalism Lives On in Obama's New Netflix Doc

News Brief: "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s

Episode 183: AI Hype and the Disciplining of "Creative," Academic, and Journalistic Labor

A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-A-Thon: The Very Real Social Brain Rot of Ancient Aliens and Ancient Apocalypse

Ep. 182: Hardhats vs Hippies and the Cold War Curation of the Conservative Union Guy Trope

Episode 181: US Media's 5 Most Popular Revisionist Tropes About the Iraq and Vietnam Wars

Episode 180: Havana Syndrome and the Power of Mainstream, Acceptable Conspiracy Theories

News Brief Live: Tucker Carlson's Transparent 'Contrarian Left' Co-Option Strategy

Announcement: Citations Needed's Semiannual Beg-A-Thon Live Show on April 26!

News Brief: Media's Credulous "Labor Shortage" Reporting Helps Lay Groundwork For Repealing Child Labor Laws

News Brief: How Brandon Johnson's Win Upends US Media's Patronizing, Simplistic "Crime" Narratives

Episode 179: From Budget Cuts to Book Bans — The Decades-Long Assault on Public Libraries

Episode 178: The Palliative Pop-History of American "Racial Progress" Narratives

Episode 177: Popular Anti-Union Talking Points and How to Combat Them

News Brief: Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine

News Brief: The Battle Over NYT's Lurid, Tabloid Coverage of 'Trans Issues'

News Brief: How Newspapers Aided Genocide in California - An Interview with Benjamin Madley

Episode 176: How the "Parental Rights" Rallying Cry Has Been a Rightwing Stalking Horse for Over 100 Years

Episode 175: Selective Humanitarianism and the US Role in Afghanistan's Post-Occupation Famine

Episode 174: How Your Favorite 1990's "Very Special" Anti-Drug Episode Was Probably Funded by the US Government

News Brief: 'Tough Love' Used to Justify Abusing Children and Surplus Black Population in Alabama

Episode 173: How to Sell Police Crackdowns on Homeless People to Liberals

Episode 172: The Foundational Myth Machine - Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood

News Brief: Biden, Congressional Dems Partner with GOP, Media to Discipline Rail Labor

News Brief: Law & Order's Boring Anti-Bail Reform Diatribe

Episode 171: The Vacuity of "Radical Libs Forced Voters Into the Arms of the Right" Discourse

Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the 'Neither Right Nor Left' Guy

Episode 169: How the Right Ventriloquizes "The Working Man" to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare

News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis

A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Morality Politics of Star Trek + Pro Wrestling

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News Brief: DC Media's "Fare Evasion" Meltdown

News Brief: Young Turks' Misleading Anti-Bail Reform Demagoguery

Ep. 168: How Faux Folksy "Real World" Advice is Employed to Limit Political Possibility and Punch Left

Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse

Episode 166: The Convenient Conventional Wisdom of "Education as Great Equalizer" Appeals

Ep. 165 - Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part II): The Rare Pro-Worker Narrative

Ep 164: Labor Union Depictions in Hollywood (Part I): From Demonized to Ignored or Mafia Plot Cliche

News Brief: Biden's Dictator Tour and the Tedium of Our "Human Rights Concerns" Theater

Live Interview: How Our Simplistic 'Inflation' Discourse Fuels the War on Workers - with Josh Mason

News Brief: Forced Pregnancies, Gutting the EPA and Growing Frustration Over "Vote Harder" Messaging

Ep. 163: The Media-Manufactured Mystique of the US Court System

Live Interview: "Action News" & the Rise of Anti-Black Local "Crime" Reporting . w/ Layla A. Jones

News Brief: Boudin Recall Coverage and how the NYT Sells 'Tough on Crime' Dogma to Squishy Liberals

Episode 162: How the "Data-Driven" Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics

News Brief: Rightwing Media's Increasingly Goofy, Hyper-Militarized Non-Solutions to Mass Shootings

News Brief: Tucker & Co Try to Lawyer Their Way Out of Trafficking in Great Replacement Rhetoric

Ep. 161: The Real Life Implications of Pop Culture's Fascination with the Dubious Science of "Criminal Profiling"

Ep.160: The 'Last $100 in Your Bank Account' Economy - How Media's Love Affair with Crypto, NFTs and Gambling Prey Upon Working People

Ep. 159: The Anti-Worker Pseudo-psychology of Corporate Personality Testing

Live Interview: What Happened to Our Politics After the End of History? with Luke Savage

Episode 158: How Notions of 'Blight' and 'Barrenness' Were Created to Erase Indigenous Peoples

News Brief: The Squishy Liberal Euphemisms Big City Dem Mayors Use to Sell Criminalizing Homelessness

News Brief: 5 Worst US Media Reactions to Russia's Ukraine Invasion

Episode 157: How the "Culture War" Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues

Episode 156: How the "Investigative Journalism" Aesthetic Can Be Used to Launder Power-Serving Narratives

Episode 155: How the American Settler-Colonial Project Shaped Popular Notions of 'Conservation'

News Brief: "Biden Crack Pipes": Anatomy of a Manufactured GOP Outrage––and Democratic Capitulation

Episode 154: "Inclusive Patriotism": How Radicals Are Retconned into Liberal Champions of the American Project

Ep 153: Crime Stoppers, America's Most Wanted and Rise of Vigilante TV News

Live Interview: Police 'Defunding' That Never Was and Abolitionism as a Long-Term Social Project

News Brief: Dem-Aligned Media Set Up Teachers Unions to Take the Fall for Midterm Losses

A Very Special News Brief - Hallmark's Anti-Labor Churn: A Follow-Up Conversation

Ep. 152: Hallmark Christmas Movies and the Cozy, Conservative Nostalgia Machine

Episode 151: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part II)

Episode 150: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part I)

Episode 149: How Fatness Became a Cheap Joke and Proxy for Moral Deficiency in Pop Culture

Ep 148: The GOP's 'Rightwing Populism' Rebrand (Part II) - Messaging Wars in 'White America'

Episode 147 - The GOP's 'Rightwing Populism'  Rebrand: How Billionaire-Backed Charlatans Pick Off Disillusioned Lefties (Part I)

News Brief - Reconciliation Bill Negotiations: A Media Autopsy

Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity 'Activism'

News Brief - Colin Powell: Stumbling Empire Personified

Live Interview: How 'The Kaepernick Effect' Revealed Reactionary Forces in Youth Sports. with Dave Zirin

Episode 145: How Real Estate-Curated 'Mom & Pop Landlord' Sob Stories Are Used to Gut Tenant Protections

Episode 144: How the Cold War Shaped First-Person Journalism and Literary Conventions

Episode 143 - PR and Prop 22: How Silicon Valley Uses Hollow "Anti-Racist" Posturing to Sell Its Exploitative Business Model

Ep 142: The Summer of Anti-BLM Backlash and How Concepts of "Crime" Were Shaped By the Propertied Class

Live Interview: How the 'Pandemic Games' Expose the Neoliberal Scam of Global Sporting Events

Episode 141: How "Most Livable Cities" Lists Center Upwardly Mobile White Professionals

Episode 140 - Kicking the Hollywood Habit: Addiction Morality Tales in Film and TV [Virtual Live Show]

Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination

News Brief: CNN Helps Biden Kick Off 'War On Crime 2.0: This Time It's Not Racist, Trust Us'

News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content

Episode 138: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part II)

Episode 137: Thought-Terminating Enemy Epithets (Part I)

News Brief: "Organized Crime" "Shoplifting Epidemic" Panic Hits San Francisco Media

Episode 136: The 'Ungrateful Athlete': Anti-Black, Anti-Labor Currents in Sports Media

News Brief: Debunking the 5 Most Common Anti-Palestinian Talking Points

News Brief: How US Media Helped Trump and USAID Weaponize "Aid" During 2019 Venezuela Coup Attempt

News Brief: On Palestine, It's Time for Progressives to Stop Reading From the Same Outrage Script & Support BDS

News Brief: On Biden's TRIPS Waiver Support, Substance Matters More than Headlines

News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor

Episode 135: The "Labor Shortage" Ruse: How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions and Depress Wages

Episode 134: The 80-Year PR Campaign that Killed Universal Healthcare

Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars

News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show

News Brief: Austin Activists Combat Anti-Homeless Stigma in 'Prop B' Media Fight

Episode 132: The House Always Wins  -  How Every Crisis Narrative Enriches the Security and Carceral State

News Brief: The Transactional Dog-Whistle Politics of the Term "Taxpayer"

Episode 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor

News Brief - Covid in Prisons: No One Cares Until Things Start to Burn

Episode 130: 'Heartland,' 'Middle America,' and US Media's Vaguely Nostalgic, Racialized Code for White Grievance

News Brief: Finance Media's GameStop Meltdown and the Thin Moral Pretexts of Wall Street's Game Rigging

Episode 129 - Vaccine Apartheid: US Media's Uncritical Adoption of Racist "Intellectual Property" Dogma

Episode 128 - The "Healing" Con: How Warm and Fuzzy Appeals for "Unity" Are Used to Protect Power

News Brief: US Media Pathologically Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"

Episode 127: Democratic Leadership's Predictable Scapegoating of 'Defund the Police'

Episode 126: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn't Rehash Under Biden (Part II)

News Brief: The ICE and Pentagon-Bloating Vagueness of the "Climate Change is a National Security Issue" Mantra

Ep. 125: Obama-Era Media Failures We Shouldn't Rehash Under Biden (Part I)

Episode 124: Mental Health During A Pandemic: How US Media Spins Societal Failures Into Personal Self-Help Journeys

News Brief: It's Not a "Fall From Grace", This Has Always Been Who Giuliani Was

Episode 123: How Liberal Meta-Demands for "Investigations" and "Studies" Are Used to Silence Activists

News Brief - Review: Netflix's Charles Murray-Themed Hallmark Film 'Hillbilly Elegy'

News Brief - Post Election Spin: Trump Blames CIA for Loss, Corporate House Dems Blame BLM

Episode 122: Climate Chaos (Part II)  - The Militarization of Liberals' Climate Change Response

Episode 121 - Climate Chaos (Part I): How the Gap Between Liberal Rhetoric & Policy Promotes Denialism

News Brief - Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Follow Up Conversation with Oliver Stone

Episode 120: 30 Under 30 Lists and the Problem with Our Youth-Obsessed 'Success' Narratives

Episode 119: How the Right Shaped Pop Country Music

Episode 118: The Snitch Economy: How Rating Apps and Tipping Pit Working People Against Each Other

Episode 117: The Always 'Lagging' U.S. War Machine

News Brief: Detailing the Connection Between Gentrification and Racist Police Harassment

Episode 116: The Pro-Gentrification Aspirationalism of HGTV's House-Flipping Shows

Episode 115: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part III) - How the Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking

Episode 114: Anti-Muslim Racism in Hollywood (Part II) - Oscar-Bait Imperialism

News Brief: The Harper's Letter and Our Extremely Narrow, Self-Serving Definition of Cancel Culture

Episode 113: Hollywood & Anti-Muslim Racism (Part 1) - Action and Adventure Schlock

Episode 112: How "Polarization" Discourse Flattens Power Dynamics and Says Nothing

Episode 111: How "Small Business" Rhetoric Is Used to Protect Corporate America

News Brief: The Growing Pushback to Copaganda

News Brief: Cops Push "Outside Agitator" Line, Exploit Real Fears of Far Right Violence to Delegitimize Protests

News Brief: 7 Years On, US Media Still Has No Answer for #BLM Other Than Vague Handwringing

News Brief: Trump, the NFL, and the Upcoming Mother of All 'Culture Wars'

Episode 110: The Shiny-Object Psychology of American Capitalist "Innovation"

Episode 109: Self-Help Culture and the Rise of Corporate Happiness Monitoring

Episode 108: How GDP Fetishism Drives Climate Crisis and Inequality

Episode 107: Pop Torts and the Ready-Made Virality of 'Frivolous Lawsuit' Stories

Episode 106: The Sanitization of Sanctions

News Brief: Widespread Indifference to Covid-19 in Prisons

News Brief: Top 10 Worst Covid Crisis Takes (So Far)

News Brief: As a Social Democracy Response Fails, Likelihood of Martial Response to Covid19 Rises

Episode 105: Pandemic, Pelosi, and the People We Consider Human

Episode 104: The Pete Peterson Austerity Empire and the "How Will You Pay For It?" Lie

Episode 103: The Glib Left-Punching of "Purity Politics" Discourse

Episode 102: The Conservative Sanctimony of Journalistic Impartiality

Episode 101: The False Universality of "Common Sense"

Episode 100: Willie Hortonism 2020 - Media Attacks on Prison Reform

Episode 99: The Cruel, Voyeuristic Quackery of Rehab TV Shows

Episode 98: The Refined Sociopathy of The Economist

Episode 97: Porch Pirate Panic and the Paranoid Racism of Snitch Apps

Episode 96: The Christian Cinema-GOP Persecution Complex

Episode 95: The Hollow Vanity of Libertarian "Choice" Rhetoric

Episode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics

News Brief: A Conversation With Indigenous Media Resistance on Mauna Kea

News Brief: Bolivia Coup Coverage and the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse

Episode 93: 100 Years of U.S. Media Fueling Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

Episode 92: The Responsibility-Erasing Catch-all of 'Automation'

Episode 91: It's Time to Retire the Term "Middle Class"

Episode 90: How Western Media's False Binary Between "Science" and Indigenous Rights is Used to Erase Native People

Episode 89: How Charges of 'Appeasement' Equate Diplomacy with Treason

Episode 88: The Mythical Bygone Glory Days of "Free Speech"

News Brief: Jon Schwarz on Samantha Power's Whitewashing Memoir

Episode 87: Nate Silver and the Crisis of Pundit Brain

Episode 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) - The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News

Episode 85: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part I) - The Infestation Rhetoric of Local News

Episode 84: How Claims of "Sowing Discord" Are Used to Silence Criticism of Power

Episode 83: The Unchecked Conservative Ideology of US Media's 'Fact-Check' Verticals

Episode 82: 'Western Civilization' and White Supremacy: The Right-Wing Co-option of Antiquity

Episode 81: How US Media Pits Labor and Climate Activists Against One Other

Episode 80: Animal Rights as Media and Pop Culture Punchline

Episode 79: How 'Neutral' 'Experts' Took Over Trump's Iran Policy

Episode 78: The Militarization of U.S. Media's Drug Coverage

Episode 77: Frugality Fables and the Poor-Shaming Grift of Financial Advice Journalism

Episode 76: The Anti-War Rebranding of Rhodes and Power and the Moral Hazard of Faux Mea Culpas

News Brief: The #Bronx120 and Preet Bharara's Woke Rebranding

Episode 75: The Trouble with 'Florida Man'

Episode 74: Liberal Gandhi Fetishism and the Problem with Pop Notions of 'Violence'

Episode 73: Western Media's Narrow, Colonial Definition of "Corruption"

Episode 72: John Stossel: Libertarian Billionaires' Inside Man

Episode 71: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part II)

Episode 70: Laundering Imperial Violence Through Anodyne Foreign Policy-Speak (Part I)

Episode 69: The Rise of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend

Episode 68 - A New Gun Control Debate: Dismantling Our Racist 'Lock 'Em Up' Approach

News Brief: Let's Relitigate the Sh*t Out of 2016 -- with Thomas Frank

Episode 67: The Gate-Keeping, Power-Serving Tautology of "Electability"

Episode 66: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

Episode 65: How Empire Uses 'Feminist' Branding to Sell War and Occupation

Episode 64: Mike Rowe's Koch-Backed Working Man Affectation

Episode 63: Gambling and Neoliberal Rot - How Our Most Regressive Tax Flies Under the Radar

Episode 62: Sanitizing Our Settler-Colonial Past With 'Nation of Immigrants' Narratives

Episode 61: What The Hell Is Wrong With MSNBC, Part II -- A Rebuttal

Episode 60: Kitten Rescues, Lip-Syncing & Christmas Traffic Stops - Your Guide to Clickbait Copaganda

Episode 59: National Pastimes: Mindless Militarism in American Sports

Episode 58: The Neoliberal Optimism Industry

News Brief: Consumer Society and the Curation of Culture

Episode 57: A Matter of Survival - Trivializing Trans Rights as a Boutique "Identity" Issue

Episode 56: How The Media Learned to Worry About War Without Ever Opposing It

Episode 55: Jake Tapper and the Art of Faux-Adversarialism

Episode 54: Local 'Crime' Reporting as Police Stenography

Episode 53: The Increasingly Dull Edge of 'Hypocrisy' Takedowns

Episode 52: Attacks on Affirmative Action and the Commodification of Diversity

Episode 51: How 'The West Wing' Poisoned the Liberal Mind

Episode 50: Anti-Imperialism and MSNBC-Approved Socialism

Episode 49: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part II)

Episode 48: Shifting Media Representations of Abortion (Part I)

News Brief: Don't Let the Media Erase McCain's Far Right Legacy

Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence

Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa

Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media

Episode 44: RussiaGate, Year 3 - Using the Nonstop Specter of Russia to Tarnish Black Activists

Episode 43: RussiaGate Year 3 -- How Liberals' Martial Posture Harms the Left

Episode 42: 'Populism' - The Media's Favorite Catch-All Smear for the Left

Episode 41: The Moral Poverty of Capitalist Healthcare Framing

Episode 40: The Civility Fetish

Episode 39: From Cradle to Courtroom: How The Media Stacks the Deck Against "Defendants"

Episode 38: The Media's Bogus Generation Obsession

Episode 37: Black Lives Matter, Dreamers, and the Problem of 'The Perfect Victim'

Episode 36: Maplewashing — Looking Behind Canada's Progressive Veneer

Episode 35: The Total Blackout of the Korean Left

Episode 34: What the Hell is Wrong with MSNBC?

Episode 33: Liberals' Obsession with the Phantom Reasonable Republican

Episode 32: Attack of the PC College Kids!

Episode 31: Fake ISIS Plots and the Selling of Forever War

Episode 30: Liberal Media's Myopic Military Worship

Episode 29: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part II)

Episode 28: The Asymptotic 'Two State Solution' (Part I)

News Brief: How to Respond to Knee-Jerk Bigotry on Live TV

Episode 27: How the Media Mainstreamed Racist Pseudoscience

Episode 26: The 'Welfare' Dog-Whistle

Episode 25: The Banality of CIA-Curated Definitions of 'Democracy'

Episode 24: Highlighting Alternative Media - The Moral Limits of Dunking on Thomas Friedman

News Brief: Why the Media Should Stop Calling it a "Government Shutdown"

Episode 23: The Media's Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn

Episode 22: Trumpwashing -- How the Media Uses Trump to Launder Our Criminal Past

Episode 21: Quantifying Negative Media Portrayals of People of Color

Episode 20: Lotteryism, Part II -- A Most Dangerous Game: How Sports Are Used to Fleece Public Trusts

Episode 19: Lotteryism Part I -- How a Compliant Press Fuels the Spectacle of 'Winning'

Episode 18: Fake News Panic and the Silencing of Dissident Media

Episode 17: Whitewashing America's Role in Yemen

News Brief: #J20 Trial Update and the Political Definitions of 'Violence'

Episode 16: Editorial Boards––Protectors of Establishment Ideology

Episode 15: The Real Estate Page As Colonial Dispatch

Episode 14: The Iran Deal Protection Racket

Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire

Episode 12: The New Atheists, Celebrity Crusaders For Empire

Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part II -- Racist Media as Barrier to Govt Spending

Episode 11: The Deficits Racket Part I -- Single Payer Propaganda War

Episode 10: Ableism and the Ethics of Calling Trump "Crazy"

Episode 09: Liberal Media Throws #J20 Activists Under the Bus

Episode 08: The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex

News Brief: Harvey, Climate Change and Snitch Reporters

Episode 07: BDS & the Moral Narratives of Colonization

News Brief: Nazis, the ACLU & the Moral Limits of 'Free Speech'

Episode 06: The Media's Default Setting of White Supremacy

News Brief: Media Helps Trump Stoke Tensions with North Korea

Episode 05: Purging Socialists of Color From History

Episode 04: The Root of All Evil

Episode 03: The Rise of Superpredator 2.0

Episode 02 : The North Korea Memory Hole

Episode 01 : The Charter School Scam