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Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The authors discussed Noam Chomsky's book "Manufacturing Consent" in relation to institutional incentives within media that shape content.
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A key to Noam Chomsky's famous Manufacturing Consent was revealing institutional incentives within media that come together to produce manufactured content on behalf of the powerful.
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The authors discussed Noam Chomsky's book "Manufacturing Consent" in relation to institutional incentives within media that shape content.
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A key to Noam Chomsky's famous Manufacturing Consent was revealing institutional incentives within media that come together to produce manufactured content on behalf of the powerful.
opening the kimono here is not going to make anyone happy over at YouTube, a platform which we literally depend on to distribute our content.
Dignity
Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict
The author wrote a book about addiction and other such things, specifically about how people who feel stigmatized tend to make reckless decisions, owning the stigma.
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He's the author of Dignity.
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The author wrote a book about addiction and other such things, specifically about how people who feel stigmatized tend to make reckless decisions, owning the stigma.
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He's the author of Dignity.
What I call, you know, when you feel stigmatized, when you feel the world is against you, you tend to you tend to make reckless decisions partly to, you know, to kind of like owning the stigma like, you know, you're going to call me a deplorable. I'll be a deplorable. You're going to call me a dirty addict. I'll be a dirty addict. You're going to call me someone who makes reckless decisions, a loser, then I'll do that, you know?
Dear Hartley
Thoughts on Character, Kindness, and Building a Brighter World
The book was mentioned as being written by Jen, and the audience was given a copy of the book.
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You can buy Jen's book, Dear Heartley, starting today and everyone in the audience. You're each going home with a copy of it.
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The book was mentioned as being written by Jen, and the audience was given a copy of the book.
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You can buy Jen's book, Dear Heartley, starting today and everyone in the audience. You're each going home with a copy of it.
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
It was mentioned as a book foundational to understanding media incentives, and the speaker still respected Chomsky's scholarship, despite recent revelations.
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the book that we have literally on the shelf, which I've always thought was very important, foundational to understanding Manufacturing Consent and media incentives and all that by th...
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It was mentioned as a book foundational to understanding media incentives, and the speaker still respected Chomsky's scholarship, despite recent revelations.
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the book that we have literally on the shelf, which I've always thought was very important, foundational to understanding Manufacturing Consent and media incentives and all that by the intellectual Noam Chomsky linguist, somebody I still do respect, I guess somewhat intellectually.
Misfire
A Sports Fiction Story of Basketball, AI and Professional Missteps
It was discussed as a book that delves into the inner workings of the NRA and its downfall, particularly concerning misuse of funds and corruption.
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He's the author of a new book of 'Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA'.
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It was discussed as a book that delves into the inner workings of the NRA and its downfall, particularly concerning misuse of funds and corruption.
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He's the author of a new book of 'Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA'.
One of the reasons I was able to write a book like this...do over 120 interviews with folks inside the NRA universe and get thousands of pages of secret depositions and internal documents and emails from inside the NRA.
They feel for folks like your dad and other people who might be contributing five, ten, fifteen dollars a month to the National Rifle Association and seeing that money in the millions of dollars going towards private jet travel, exotic vacations for like Wayne LaPierre and his family, trips to Europe and the Bahamas...really expensive dinners, six figures in suits for Wayne on Rodeo Drive.
They were finding it hard to make payroll. That's how dire the situation was in the 2018, 2019 timeframe.
I'd love for them to buy the book.
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It was cited as relevant to the discussion surrounding AI and radical changes occurring in society, referencing the Oppenheimer era.
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Walter Russell Mead had a great piece in Tablet yesterday. It's called You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times.
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It was cited as relevant to the discussion surrounding AI and radical changes occurring in society, referencing the Oppenheimer era.
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Walter Russell Mead had a great piece in Tablet yesterday. It's called You Are Not Destined to Live in Quiet Times.
Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
It was mentioned during a discussion of Jeffrey Epstein's connections to powerful figures, and Chomsky was implicated in having had multiple meetings with him.
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Apparently had not only dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, but actually arranged a meeting with Ayyud Barak, then the former prime minister of Israel to discuss, quote, Israel's policies with regard to Pale...
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It was mentioned during a discussion of Jeffrey Epstein's connections to powerful figures, and Chomsky was implicated in having had multiple meetings with him.
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Apparently had not only dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, but actually arranged a meeting with Ayyud Barak, then the former prime minister of Israel to discuss, quote, Israel's policies with regard to Palestinians.
when asked about his relationship, he said, first response is that it is none of your business or anyone's. Second is that I knew him and that we met occasionally.
if there was a flight, which I doubt it, it would have been from Boston to New York. Only 30 minutes. I am unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.
The Value of Nothing
How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
The book was discussed in relation to how shareholder-driven corporations prioritize financial engineering over investing in projects that could increase earnings and potentially create jobs.
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The book was discussed in relation to how shareholder-driven corporations prioritize financial engineering over investing in projects that could increase earnings and potentially create jobs.
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According to Julius Krine's paper entitled The Value of Nothing Capital versus Growth in the Intellectual Journal American Affairs quote today's shareholder driven corporations are not necessarily or even primarily motivated to engage in the traditional methods of growing a business.
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Something Lost, Something Gained
Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
This book explores an alternative timeline where Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton never married. It was turned into a television series which ultimately did not get picked up by Hulu, due to its lack of popularity.
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Hulu is passing on Hillary Clinton series, Radham. Clara Danes and Dakota Fanning were to star as 20th Century TV is shopping the project around.
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This book explores an alternative timeline where Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton never married. It was turned into a television series which ultimately did not get picked up by Hulu, due to its lack of popularity.
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Hulu is passing on Hillary Clinton series, Radham. Clara Danes and Dakota Fanning were to star as 20th Century TV is shopping the project around.
All of this is based upon the 2020 New York Times bestseller which imagined an alternative universe in which Hillary Rodham met and dated Bill Clinton but never married him.
Instead, in the life Clinton really led, she goes on to thrive as a Northwestern University professor and launches an eventual presidential run real world events such as rape accusations against Bill Clinton and Donald Trump play out in the novel but in vastly altered ways.
I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that she would not even be in politics without Bill Clinton.
I just think that she's a terrible politician.
A Walking Tour of the Georgetown Set
'People of the Georgetown Set' was suggested as a book to read, highlighting the insular and elite nature of the Washington establishment and its historical connections to journalism.
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to this great book, people should go and read, even today, all the elite cases of people who had Covid in D.C.
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'People of the Georgetown Set' was suggested as a book to read, highlighting the insular and elite nature of the Washington establishment and its historical connections to journalism.
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to this great book, people should go and read, even today, all the elite cases of people who had Covid in D.C.
Big Debt Crises
It was mentioned as a book that one of the speakers was reading to gain more insight into the past debt ceiling battles, which provided context for the present discussion.
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I'm actually going back and reading--Bob Woodward wrote a pretty good book about the 2011 debt crisis.
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It was mentioned as a book that one of the speakers was reading to gain more insight into the past debt ceiling battles, which provided context for the present discussion.
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I'm actually going back and reading--Bob Woodward wrote a pretty good book about the 2011 debt crisis.
George F. Kennan
An American Life
It was discussed at length in the episode, with a focus on Kennan's insights into US foreign policy and his warnings about NATO expansionism, particularly as they relate to Ukraine.
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Furthermore, a new biography of Kennan actually tells us even more. Kennan wrote in a private letter after the admission of the former Soviet states into NATO that quote, nowhere does this choice appe...
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It was discussed at length in the episode, with a focus on Kennan's insights into US foreign policy and his warnings about NATO expansionism, particularly as they relate to Ukraine.
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Furthermore, a new biography of Kennan actually tells us even more. Kennan wrote in a private letter after the admission of the former Soviet states into NATO that quote, nowhere does this choice appear more portentous and pregnant with fateful consequences than in the case of Ukraine.
Kennan's biographer Frank Castelliaga writes of the takeaway quote, Kennan's lesson for us in understanding the Cold War of the 20th century and in diffusing the explosive tensions of the 21st century is that seemingly intractable conflicts may be more susceptible to settlement than it may at first appear.
I thought the new biography is fantastic and a lot of the stuff I was reading about-
"The American Empire Should Be Destroyed"
Aleksandr Dugin and the Perils of Immanentized Eschatology
It was discussed as a book that reflects Putin's thinking, particularly regarding his invasion of Ukraine, and was recommended reading for the Russian military. It detailed possibilities for Russia including invading Georgia, annexing Ukraine, and sowing discord in the US.
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Dugin's most influential work, it's called 'The Foundation of Geopolitics'. It was written in the 1990s, it's recommended reading by the Russian military and which Putin is almost certainly familiar w...
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It was discussed as a book that reflects Putin's thinking, particularly regarding his invasion of Ukraine, and was recommended reading for the Russian military. It detailed possibilities for Russia including invading Georgia, annexing Ukraine, and sowing discord in the US.
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Dugin's most influential work, it's called 'The Foundation of Geopolitics'. It was written in the 1990s, it's recommended reading by the Russian military and which Putin is almost certainly familiar with.
raised three distinct possibilities in 1997 that Russia should invade Georgia, it should annex Ukraine and should attempt to separate Britain from the rest of Europe and that the seeds of discord should be sown in the United States.
This is not a war with Ukraine, this is a confrontation with globalism as a whole, planetary phenomenon, confrontation at all levels and ideologically Russia rejects everything in globalism, monopolarity, atlanticism on the one hand, liberalism, anti-tradition, technocracy, a great reset in the world in the other.
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Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man [Hardcover]
The book was discussed in relation to the relationship between the Trump White House and Fox News, which was perceived as a negative example of media and government interaction.
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By the way, that was really gross. I thought it was disgusting even at the time.
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The book was discussed in relation to the relationship between the Trump White House and Fox News, which was perceived as a negative example of media and government interaction.
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By the way, that was really gross. I thought it was disgusting even at the time.
And, you know, Kayleigh McEnany immediately going to get a job there. Same with Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
Bomb
The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon (Newbery Honor Book & National Book Award Finalist)
It was mentioned as a book to read to understand that there is no such thing as a small nuclear war, something humanity has known since the 1950s.
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I recommend to that book The Bomb by Fred Kaplan yesterday.
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It was mentioned as a book to read to understand that there is no such thing as a small nuclear war, something humanity has known since the 1950s.
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I recommend to that book The Bomb by Fred Kaplan yesterday.
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