About this episode

Dave Jackson discusses media bias and cultural commentary, reflecting on historical narratives and current social issues.

I expect the news to lean left or to lean right, and it drives me crazy. The one side calls the other side a bunch of names. We never really get the true story. It's all intended not to inform but more to entertain and to get a bunch of bullet points across. Now it's getting worse. When I was a little kid, I saw Gone with the Wind with my mother. It was her favorite movie because of Clark Gable, who was hot. I'm amazed she took me because the movie is almost four hours long, but I do remember there was an intermission because any males over 50 couldn't hold their pee that long, even in 1939. But now a fictional story has to have a disclaimer in the description or before you watch the movie on HBO. That's driving me crazy that people feel they have to inform me that slavery was bad. As bad as public school education is, we did get the point that slavery does not look like a lot of fun. I remember watching Roots and just being absolutely horrified. They also tell me to go Google Black Lives Matter . If you actually do that and start digging into where all the money went, you might actually be a little upset because it didn't go where you thought it was going to go. I learned about…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Jackson

Topics covered

• media bias
• cultural commentary
• historical context
• entertainment
• social issues

Keywords

• media bias
• Gone with the Wind
• Roots
• Black Lives Matter
• cultural commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Black Lives Matter

Books & works: Gone with the Wind, Roots

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