Mickey and Peter devote this week’s show to discussions about the media, including both critiques of corporate media and a briefing on the latest work from Project Censored. Their first guest, Rob Williams, speaks about fighting corporate fake news, and introduces his suggested additions to the ‘propaganda model’ set forth by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in 1988’s “Manufacturing Consent.”
Then journalist Abby Martin of The Empire Files on TelSUR explains the corporate media’s gross misrepresentations of the conflict in Venezuela. Finally, Project Censored associate director Andy Lee Roth joins Mickey to discuss some of the stories and themes from “Censored 2018,” Project Censored’s just-published compendium of the latest underreported stories and news analysis for 2016-17.