Any source who claims to have no bias, or is "nuetral" is the exact opposite. They protect the status quo, imperialist hegemony. Thanks for another inciteful and necessary episode! We all must never stop telling the truth, and exposing the lies and propaganda from the billionaire class.
The art, science and structure of propaganda is perhaps the most important thing anyone who wants the red pill needs to understand. Understanding how cultural hegemony is engineered is the forst step towards breaking it.
#Capitalism has allowed billionaires to not only exist but to consolidate #media in order to further accumulate more wealth. Hence the need to build dual power including working class owned media orgs like Real Progressives.
Media literacy and having legitimate sources of information which are adopted by the masses, circumventing the legacy outlets which have sold us out to the #epstein and #oligarch class is a must. #eachoneteachone #solidarity #socialism #medialiteracy
Mickey Huff and the Project Censored team continue to be an essential resource for navigating today’s media landscape. Their work on critical media literacy and uncovering what the corporate press actively ignores is more vital than ever. Always appreciate the deep dives on Macro n Cheese.
George Carlin maybe said it best two decades ago: "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge... they know what's good for them, and they're getting it."
It's not like some secret society of cartoonish villains is controlling all of our media, it's the capitalist class enforcing its cultural hegemony on society in more and more advanced ways. And the work that Project Censored is doing to cover the stories our corporate media refuses to is essential to building the class consciousness required to challenge capital.
Literally a handful of tech oligarchs and corporate families (six lol) own 90% of all US media. They control what we read, see, hear, they influence how we think. But that cultural hegemony is starting to break, and that's WHY the ruling class is turning up the dial on fascism.
Perhaps my favorite line comes, not from Mickey or Steve but from Emma Tucker of the WSJ speaking to her peers at Davos. She was bemoaning people’s access to information outside the corporate press. “Not that long ago we owned the news. We were the gatekeepers and we very much owned the facts as well. If it said it in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, then that was a fact. Nowadays people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news and they're much more questioning about what we're saying. So it's no longer good enough for us to just say this is what happened or this is news.” She goes on to complain that readers now expect them to show how they work, how they source their stories.
Kinda like the longbow being made obsolete by the invention of gunpowder?
I think Mickey was somewhat optimistic regarding the nature of the disclosures of the 1970's - I basically accept the view of Aaron Good that most of it was due to leak warfare between different oligarch factions, with some of the reporters involved essentially functioning as mouthpieces. However, that is a minor quibble in what was overall a great overview of how bad things are in the media at the present time. The comments regarding shoving tech into classrooms really struck a chord with me in particular.
Any source who claims to have no bias, or is "nuetral" is the exact opposite. They protect the status quo, imperialist hegemony. Thanks for another inciteful and necessary episode! We all must never stop telling the truth, and exposing the lies and propaganda from the billionaire class.
#MacroNCheese #disinformation #propaganda #eachoneteachone
The art, science and structure of propaganda is perhaps the most important thing anyone who wants the red pill needs to understand. Understanding how cultural hegemony is engineered is the forst step towards breaking it.
Absolutely!
#Capitalism has allowed billionaires to not only exist but to consolidate #media in order to further accumulate more wealth. Hence the need to build dual power including working class owned media orgs like Real Progressives.
Media literacy and having legitimate sources of information which are adopted by the masses, circumventing the legacy outlets which have sold us out to the #epstein and #oligarch class is a must. #eachoneteachone #solidarity #socialism #medialiteracy
Mickey Huff and the Project Censored team continue to be an essential resource for navigating today’s media landscape. Their work on critical media literacy and uncovering what the corporate press actively ignores is more vital than ever. Always appreciate the deep dives on Macro n Cheese.
George Carlin maybe said it best two decades ago: "You don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge... they know what's good for them, and they're getting it."
It's not like some secret society of cartoonish villains is controlling all of our media, it's the capitalist class enforcing its cultural hegemony on society in more and more advanced ways. And the work that Project Censored is doing to cover the stories our corporate media refuses to is essential to building the class consciousness required to challenge capital.
Literally a handful of tech oligarchs and corporate families (six lol) own 90% of all US media. They control what we read, see, hear, they influence how we think. But that cultural hegemony is starting to break, and that's WHY the ruling class is turning up the dial on fascism.
Perhaps my favorite line comes, not from Mickey or Steve but from Emma Tucker of the WSJ speaking to her peers at Davos. She was bemoaning people’s access to information outside the corporate press. “Not that long ago we owned the news. We were the gatekeepers and we very much owned the facts as well. If it said it in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, then that was a fact. Nowadays people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news and they're much more questioning about what we're saying. So it's no longer good enough for us to just say this is what happened or this is news.” She goes on to complain that readers now expect them to show how they work, how they source their stories.
Kinda like the longbow being made obsolete by the invention of gunpowder?
Heh I know. That was the quote we were sorta considering for the other headliner. But it was buried and so were we lol
Cant wait to listen to this week's episode
I think Mickey was somewhat optimistic regarding the nature of the disclosures of the 1970's - I basically accept the view of Aaron Good that most of it was due to leak warfare between different oligarch factions, with some of the reporters involved essentially functioning as mouthpieces. However, that is a minor quibble in what was overall a great overview of how bad things are in the media at the present time. The comments regarding shoving tech into classrooms really struck a chord with me in particular.
Agreed.
Thanks Steve and Mickey for this podcast.
I know the economic stuff is important but no less the propaganda we have to navigate.
In a way I tend towards, the world has always been like this.
Social media has just beamed the truth of it into our consciousness.
That's why they want to shut it down.