And finally, this News Brief, "'Peak TV,' Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor," in which we interview authors @mmmbanksy and Kate Fortmueller about the state of Hollywood labor in the streaming era. https://t.co/5NZRAPraK2
Hi, all! We'll be taking a short spring break and returning later this month.
In the meantime, in case you missed them, check out some of our recent releases, like this News Brief about the Writers Against the War on Gaza's campaign to boycott the NYT: https://t.co/btc0q9upXE
Or Episode 238: "The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction," in which we dissect the "sleeper cell" trope that has consumed post-9/11 US news media and pop culture despite the fact that there's no evidence to support it. https://t.co/PfjO04l2e9
In this News Brief, "The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—the NYTimes," we talk with Chris Mills Rodrigo from @wawog_now about their campaign to boycott the NYT and remove the "paper of record" from its pedestal of alleged neutrality and editorial rigor. https://t.co/btc0q9upXE
In Ep 238, "The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing 'Sleeper Cell' Media Construction," we detail our media obsession with so-called "sleeper cells," a trope that has consumed post-9/11 US but suffers from one major problem: there's no evidence it exists. https://t.co/PfjO04l2e9
In this discussion between @WideAsleepNima & @adamjohnsonCHI at The Word is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn NY from May 7, we go over key findings that can be found in Adam's new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza
https://t.co/yhXQOrXPGi
In this News Brief, "'Peak TV,' Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor," we talk with Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller about how the dream of fame, 100 years on, is still used to concentrate power and drive down wages. https://t.co/5NZRAPraK2
In this News Brief, we talk w/ @ajbauer about his new book, "Making the Liberal Media," and the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America https://t.co/a1P2YVokEn
Listen to the latest episode of @CitationsPod on “radicalization” and “reeducation” instead of reading Ezra Klein’s apologia for Liberal Zionism. https://t.co/Dsi0iAFn9L
In Ep 237, "How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle," we break down the history of US media reducing recalcitrant populations' grievances to "radicalism" in urgent need of re-education
with @prem_thakker https://t.co/Irh9FaWG2K
In Ep 236, "Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off," we discuss how privatization was rebranded 'Public-Private Partnerships' and unleashed decades of raiding of the public coffers by Wall St.
with Donald Cohen. https://t.co/oL4U3ikoio
In this News Brief, “As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of ‘Human Shields’,” we examine CNN, NYT’s blatant ‘human shields’ double standard as reports emerge of US troops hiding from Iran in civilian infrastructure.
https://t.co/70uYBR46RA
In this News Brief, we discuss a recent poll showing 70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about Iran's "nuclear program"—including 1 in 4 who think they currently possesses a nuke, and detail how decades of sleazy media innuendo and lies got us here. https://t.co/ByPfq7Dm5U
Such an excellent episode of @CitationsPod on what IS sanctions really mean and media complicity with US regimes in presenting them as international law. A must listen.
In Ep 235, "'Shadow Fleets,' Sanctions and Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates," we explore how unilateral US sanctions against Enemy States are given the halo of international legal legitimacy by print and cable news. https://t.co/NUMplBnbIF