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Episode 94: The Goofy Pseudoscience Copaganda of TV Forensics
Since the early 2000s, a spate of forensics-focused TV shows and films have emerged on the pop culture scene. Years after Law & Order premiered in th…
6 years, 4 months ago
News Brief: A Conversation With Indigenous Media Resistance on Mauna Kea
In Ep. 90, "How Western Media's False Binary Between 'Science' & Indigenous Rights Erases Native People," we explored the ways capital-S "Science" ha…
6 years, 4 months ago
News Brief: Bolivia Coup Coverage and the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse
In this News Brief, we discuss the battle over whether or not to call what happened in Bolivia a "coup," and the problem with the always popular, sli…
6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 93: 100 Years of U.S. Media Fueling Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
"A preponderance of foreign elements destroys the most precious thing [a nation] possesses - its own soul," wrote the politically-influential Immigra…
6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 92: The Responsibility-Erasing Catch-all of 'Automation'
"As technology shifts more layoffs loom at tech companies," Reuters tells us. "PepsiCo is laying off corporate employees as the company commits to mi…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 91: It's Time to Retire the Term "Middle Class"
"Building a wall won't save America's crumbling middle class," Elizabeth Warren tells us. "Sanders healthcare will raise taxes on the middle class,"…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 90: How Western Media's False Binary Between "Science" and Indigenous Rights is Used to Erase Native People
"Science and religion fight over Hawaii's highest point," one CNN headline puts it. "Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers?" BBC asks. "S…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 89: How Charges of 'Appeasement' Equate Diplomacy with Treason
"Israel says EU's response on Iran recalls Nazi appeasement," reported Reuters. "The Biden Plan for Appeasement," spat a recent editorial in The New …
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 88: The Mythical Bygone Glory Days of "Free Speech"
We are often warned by conservatives, liberals and even some on the Left that we live in a time where "free speech" is under threat from far-left for…
6 years, 6 months ago
News Brief: Jon Schwarz on Samantha Power's Whitewashing Memoir
Friend of the show and writer at The Intercept Jon Schwarz joins us to review Samantha Power's self-serving, ahistorical memoir.
6 years, 6 months ago