{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybertraps Podcast","title":"Corporate Media vs. Independent Media with Tony Brasunas Cybertraps 151","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2727,"description":"TONY BRASUNAS, independent journalist and author of the forthcoming RED, WHITE & BLIND: The Truth About Censorship in America and the Rise of Independent Media, which aims to explore  media distortion and disinformation in the U.S. as well as the upswell of independent media that has risen up to combat it.\n Corporate media vs independent media\n“How 5 Companies Control All US Media”\nNew trends: corporate media trying to maintain control\nFactcheckers as part of corporate media\nAstroturf independent media (not actually independent)\nTremendous bias from corporate media\nInnocent bias, Systemic bias, Nefarious bias.\nOperation Mockingbird - Journalists being fed info or were agents, or were public figures\nImpact of the internet on corporate and independent media.\nThe New Enlightenment\nNo intermediaries\nDisinformation - building up false perspectives\nCensorship - hiding information\nOrigin of COVID\nWeapons of Mass Destruction\nAmbassador’s daughter in Congress pretending to be a nurse.\nAre there bad and nefarious people in corporate media or are many people just being hoodwinked.\nThe role of big corporations and perverse incentives.\nThe Narrative\nCorporate media has the “power to deliver that narrative”\nCorporate media sees their biggest threat as corporate media\nJournalist - we’re all journalists.\nBalanced media diet - 40 sources to give you an idea of what is really going on.\n Tony’s Media Pyramid\nWatch for confirmation bias.\nThe media narratives are the water that we swim in.\nHow to share media effectively.\nUse the internet to share ideas you think are good.\nScience is not a set of answers, it’s a way to question.\nCensorship is anathema to science and democracy.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-npbjlTwEpH5Ybi_ySNRhS-EfNqaI7Ep1svTppTGhLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNTcyLzE2ODM5/MjY0NDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}