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Media Coverage of Terror Spin + The Digital Disconnect — 31 May 2013 — (1) A wrap-up of recent media buffoonery. ~~ (2) Did Barack Obama's recent speech signal a sea change in White House terrorism policy? For most corporate media, the answer is yes. Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights explains why Obama's vague assurances should be discounted against the weight of his stay-the-course actions. ~~ (3) Depending on who you listen to, the internet has either destroyed the traditional media business or has brought us a new era of vibrant, more democratic media. Bob McChesney argues in his new book Digital Disconnect that to understand the internet, you have to understand the perversities of capitalism.
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C-Realm Podcast

Erik Davis on Techno-Society and Honoring the Yuck Response — 22 May 2013— Erik Davis joins KMO for a conversation about the psycho-spiritual differences between the East and West coasts of the United States. Later, they examine the pressure on humans living in a techno-industrial civilization to adapt themselves from biological time (kairos) to the digital time of the clock and information technology (chronos). Erik explains how both techno-utopian and Luddite belief systems rest upon problematic notions of human nature. Sometimes technology elicits a "yuck response" from us, but just as that visceral reaction can steer us wrong, we discount it at our peril.
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On The Media

"The Deciders" of Internet Free Speech — 31 May 2013 — There's a small group of men and women at big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter who make decisions everyday about what "offensive speech" is pulled from their sites. The huge scale of those sites gives these "Deciders" enormous influence over the state of free speech on the web. George Washington University Law professor Jeffrey Rosen discusses.
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