About this episode

The episode discusses the media's perpetuation of the Both Sides Do It narrative through a quiz format.

Episode 998 of The Professional Left opens with a game of "Who's This Jagoff?" — a quiz that turns out to be a master class in how the Both Sides Do It lie gets laundered through the media, repeated without evidence, and rewarded with radio shows and television bookings no matter how many times it's been proven false. Driftglass and Blue Gal dig into the deep roots of that lie, traveling back twenty years to a single Neal Conan moment on NPR that perfectly captures how "to be fair" became a r...

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Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• media bias
• Both Sides Do It
• political commentary
• historical analysis
• quiz

Keywords

• media
• politics
• Both Sides Do It
• NPR
• Neal Conan
• quiz
• commentary

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Organizations: NPR

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