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News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope
Apr 22, 2026
51m 25s
Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle
Apr 15, 2026
1h 21m 51s
Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off
Apr 8, 2026
1h 06m 08s
News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'
Apr 1, 2026
17m 55s
News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War
Mar 25, 2026
34m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4/22/26 |  News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope✨ | media criticismconservative movement+3 | A. J. Bauer | University of AlabamaMaking the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press | — | liberal mediaconservative movement+3 | — | 51m 25s | |
| 4/15/26 |  Ep 237: How Selective, Patronizing 'Deradicalization' Discourse Pathologizes Anti-Colonial Struggle✨ | deradicalizationanti-colonial struggle+4 | Prem Thakker | — | — | deradicalizationanti-colonial+4 | — | 1h 21m 51s | |
| 4/8/26 |  Ep 236: Manufactured Austerity and the Media Assisted 'Public-Private Partnership' Rip-Off✨ | privatizationpublic-private partnerships+4 | Donald Cohen | In the Public InterestWall Street | — | privatizationpublic-private partnerships+4 | — | 1h 06m 08s | |
| 4/1/26 |  News Brief: As American Troops Hide in Civilian Hotels, US Media Ignores Pentagon's Use of 'Human Shields'✨ | US militarymedia criticism+4 | — | CNNthe Atlantic+2 | IranUnited States | human shieldsUS troops+6 | — | 17m 55s | |
| 3/25/26 |  News Brief: How Decades of Media Distortions and Lies about "Iran's Nuclear Program" Lead to War✨ | media distortionIran nuclear program+3 | — | Iranmedia | America | Irannuclear program+5 | — | 34m 41s | |
| 3/11/26 |  "Shadow Fleets," Sanctions & Western Media's International Law-ification of Arbitrary US Dictates✨ | sanctionsinternational law+3 | Maryam Jamshidi | University of Colorado School of Law | — | sanctionsinternational law+5 | — | 1h 22m 12s | |
| 2/18/26 |  News Brief: As Trump Crushes Academia, the NYT and Atlantic Still Fight 'Woke' Wars from 5 Years Ago✨ | higher educationneoliberalism+3 | Chenjerai KumanyikaTodd Wolfson | American Association of University ProfessorsNYT+1 | — | Trumphigher education+5 | — | 45m 54s | |
| 2/4/26 |  Ep 234: TikTok, Gen Z's Move to Social Media and Elite Panic Over Unsanctioned News✨ | TikTokGen Z+4 | Omar Zahzah | USIsraeli military contractors | Gaza | TikTokGen Z+5 | — | 1h 13m 49s | |
| 1/30/26 |  News Brief: ICE, Senate Dems' Counterinsurgency PR, and the Limits of Body Cam Liberalism✨ | Senate DemocratsICE+4 | — | Senate DemocratsICE | — | Senate DemocratsICE+4 | — | 39m 34s | |
| 1/28/26 |  Ep 233: How US Media Naturalizes Capital Strikes and Helps the Rich Undermine Democracy✨ | media analysiscapital strikes+4 | — | US media | US | capital strikesUS media+5 | — | 1h 24m 28s | |
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| 1/22/26 |  News Brief: As Dem Leadership Waffles—Labor, Organizers, Immigrants Fight Back in Minneapolis | In this News Brief, we break down Dem leadership's fatuous "body cam" and "training" response to ICE brutality, and how organizers in the Twin Cities are not settling for cosmetic reform. With guest Janette Corcelius. | — | ||||||
| 1/17/26 |  News Brief: For Media Reporting on Iran, Trump Suddenly Morphs into Pro-Democracy Humanitarian | In this News Brief, we discuss mainstream media coverage of ongoing protests across Iran and how nearly every major Western outlet has been uncritically framing any potential regime change plans by the US government—including Trump ordering a military attack on the country—as being motivated primarily, if not solely, by concern for the lives, safety and rights of demonstrators. | — | ||||||
| 1/7/26 |  News Brief: How Corporate Media Laid the Groundwork for a Rightwing Incitement Campaign in Minnesota | In this News Brief, we detail how CBS, Fox, WSJ, and NYT promoted an essentialized, overblown narrative on the "Somali Minnesota fraud" story, teeing up a full blown rightwing incitement campaign against Minneapolis's immigrant communities. | — | ||||||
| 12/10/25 |  Ep 232: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center | In this episode, we discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins. | — | ||||||
| 12/3/25 |  News Brief: BBC's Gaza Double Standard and Western Liberalism's Crisis of Legitimacy | In this News Brief, we interview journalist Daniel Trilling and discuss his investigation into the BBC's systemic anti-Palestinian bias. | — | ||||||
| 11/26/25 |  Ep 231 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 2): AIPAC Dems' Fake Israel Criticisms | In this episode, we detail the buyers' market for superficial Gaza critiques that permit ambitious Democrats to look pro-Palestine without the downside of actually being so. With guest Tariq Kenney-Shawa. | — | ||||||
| 11/19/25 |  Ep 230 - How To Oppose Genocide Without Opposing Genocide (Part 1): Biden World's Reputation Laundering PR Tour | In this episode, we detail recent attempts by former Biden officials to rewrite history and absolve themselves of responsibility for the horrors of Gaza, and lay out the emerging Dem-aligned media industry of vibing past Democrats' lockstep support for genocide. | — | ||||||
| 11/10/25 |  Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: MAHA, TikTok and the Rise of Health-Branded Fascism | In this Live Show Beg-a-Thon from 10/13, we are joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our shitty for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism. | — | ||||||
| 10/29/25 |  News Brief: As Trump Attacks Venezuela, Media Takes His Absurd "Drug War" Pretext at Face Value | In this News Brief, we detail how the AP, Atlantic, Washington Post and New York Times are accepting Trump's framing that his attacks on Venezuela and Colombia are about "going after drug cartels" when it's clear they are—based on Trump's own words—about controlling Venezuela's oil. | — | ||||||
| 10/22/25 |  News Brief: Media Helps Sell ICE Raids with Zero Dark Thirty Ride-Along Schlock | In this News Brief, we are joined by Matthew Cunningham-Cook to discuss his recent media analysis of "embedded reports" of ICE raids that prime the public for brutal crackdowns on undocumented immigrants. | — | ||||||
| 10/13/25 |  News Brief: The Billionaire-Backed Groups Working to Push Dems Right in 2026 and 2028 | In this News Brie, we detail the major factions seeking to rewrite the history of the 2024 election as "woke" Gone Too Far, downplay Gaza, and prevent economic populism at all costs. | — | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  Live Show Beg-A-Thon Monday 10/13 - Promo! | Please join us Monday, Oct 13 for a Beg-A-Thon live show @ 9:30ET/8:30CT! We will be joined by Justin Feldman to discuss the rise of MAHA, the broader Granola-to-Fascist Pipeline and how corporate-written food policies and our horrible, for-profit medical system fuel hucksterism. | — | ||||||
| 10/1/25 |  Ep 229: Sociopathic 'You Got To Hand it To 'Em' Punditry and the Rise of Politics as Sport | In this episode we detail the rise of detached "who's winning and who's losing" political analyses that reduces high stakes life and death issues to fodder for ESPN-style navel-gazing. With guest Jack Mirkinson. | — | ||||||
| 9/24/25 |  Ep 228 - Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise | In Ep 228, "Billionaires as Insta-Experts: How Our Media Conflates Extreme Wealth with Expertise," we break down the media convention of assuming the rich are per se experts on everything from education to "the economy" to poverty in Africa when, in reality, they are Just Some Guys. With guest Rob Larson. | — | ||||||
| 8/27/25 |  News Brief - NYT, BBC, Guardian: Starvation in Gaza Doesn't Really Count if Victim Has Preexisting Condition | In this News Brief, we detail recent "updates," "clarifications" and "added context" pro-Israel crybullies have pressured Western media outlets to make (some more willingly than others) that give readers the distinct impression emaciated children in Gaza aren't really an urgent humanitarian crisis if they have rickets, cancer, or cerebral palsy. With guest Beatrice Adler-Bolton. | — | ||||||
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