Copaganda culture is deep and has to be dismantled.

He's trying to aim at being the local AM radio ranter when he is voted out.

Ezra Pound also did propaganda on Italian Fascist shortwave radio from 1939 to 1943, then for the German-backed Italian Social Republic from later in 1943 to 1945 (he got more anti-Semitic and crazy on RSI shortwave.)

Skull and Bones Society but genocidal. So the Skull and Bones Society

Listening again after Stines shot Mullins. Love every ep on WHitesburg/Letcher county. Miss your voice on here, Tanya!

One of the most prized professional norms for journalists, particularly the United States, is the preservation of neutrality in reporting. While the concept of “objectivity” has fallen out of fashion among mainstream reportage in recent years, related concepts that convey a similar idea such as “impartiality” and “neutrality” have come to replace it. In their mission statements and codes of ethics, corporate and government owned outlets routinely proclaim the importance of impartiality and balance, in the sanctified pursuit of fair, unbiased reporting. 

In theory, this can be a healthy idea. Distinguishing between so-called opinion or editorial versus neutral, down-the-middle reporting –“objectivity” or “impartiality” can give the reader a sense that a series of facts are being reported rather than some guy’s opinion. 
The fundamental problem is when this vaguely aspirational genre morphs into an unchecked ideology––an ideology that requires one to think we live in a world where said facts are curated and created outside of long-existing power structures; that those who produce, on an institutional scale, knowledge products via think tanks and academic institutions are without bias. That journalistic institutions, funded by large corporations and billionaires themselves, don’t decide which neutral facts are important and which aren’t. 

“Objectivity” that doesn’t calibrate power asymmetries or attempt to account for its own institutional ideology isn’t a mode of reporting, it’s conservative conditioning that––if not in intent, in effect––does little more than advance prevailing ruling class ideology. Indeed, anyone who’s ever studied marketing or PR or propaganda will tell you the most effective messaging is that which appears unbiased and impartial.

On today’s show, we’ll examine how objectivity came to be a defining principle of Western journalism and how U.S. media’s understanding of impartiality provides an urbane veneer for racism, homophobia, anti-poor policies and other reactionary currents.

We are joined this week by journalist Lewis Raven Wallace, author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity.

Episode 102: The Conservative Sanctimony of Journalistic Impartiality

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Episode 141: In the Land of Uz

This week it's Dylan 2 Dylan, peehole parasites, and more scolding from the old New Left. Surely there's a throughline somewhere in there. 

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Episode 146: The Buzz Dosage

Time to do some theorizing about your favorite subject: cops

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Episode 150: Cop Dialectics

After our local BLM rally last week, the highest-elected official in the county took to Facebook with a few choice words about leftists, racism, and Adolf Hitler. We talk about all the fall out from that, and then hear from our old pals Gail and Bret of the New York Times.

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Episode 151: Anything But The A-Word

Dr. Jessie Wilkerson (@Dr_JessieW), author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight, joins us to talk about Dolly Parton and the recent push to replace Confederate monuments with...Dolly monuments.

You can read Jessie's essay about Dolly here: https://longreads.com/2018/10/16/living-with-dolly-parton/

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John Brown pt 3 w/ Naomi Karavani

The final episode of our John Brown series is finally here. Sorry it was supposed to be out a couple weeks ago but i got doxxed by the alt right and had to tweet about cum for two straight weeks. Anyways here's John Brown and the raid on Harper's Ferry that led to the Civil War. Never compromise, never log off, not even in the face of Armageddon. God bless us, everyone.

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John Brown pt 4: Never Log Off w/ Naomi Karavani

We are joined by Arthur and Donovan from Radio Free Tote Bag, the leftist relationship advice show! We talk about Kenosha, the RNC, and the ethics of pretending like you are someone's father during sexual intercourse.

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