The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Jeff Gerth on the failure of the U.S. press to report the true story during the Trump-Russia saga.
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter Jeff Gerth on the failure of the U.S. press to report the true story during the Trump-Russia saga.
I detest Trump, but once the man came along, the press stopped even pretending to be objective, just as the alphabet agencies and prosecutors stopped even pretending to be acting in the interests of justice, instead seeking any pretext to stop Trump.
There is no longer any right or left. Just us and them, and “them” have all the levers of power over us (whom they think of as the Great Unwashed). But our long walk through the desert may be coming to an end as people start to chafe at their chains. Don’t pillory me for being an optimist.
"Take a Bow, Columbia Journalism Review: The venerable watchdog publication breaks legacy media ranks with a massive rebuke of Trump-Russia coverage. Interview with the report's dogged author, Jeff Gerth" interviewed by Matt Taibbi at Racket News.
I witnessed a friend losing many "friends" because she refused to simply accept the Russiagate narrative. One of the most vocal of those was a prep school, Harvard educated woman. I guess all the money spent on her education is not paying off, is it. The same person also used the Russiagate narrative to say that Bernie benefited from it - never mind that Bernie wasn't the nominee. The whole thing was, and is, absurd. I bet this Harvard educated woman still believes the election was stolen.
But what bugs me is that, in the context of Russia preventing Hillary from becoming president, I haven't seen anyone address the fact that Hillary did win the popular vote and if there is anything threatening our "democracy", let's start with the electoral college. And if she failed to win delegates, that's not a matter of interference, but a matter of bad campaigning. I thing it is so simple and all the discussion, while enlightening, is not really necessary.
The tribal near-monopoly ownership/control of the media is the cause of the loss of trust in the media: NYTmes, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS and C-Span. That also explains the hysteria when a non-tribal member took over Twitter.
I hope you do a segment on the asbury revival I’ve just become aware of. From what I see it’s been non political so far but there’s a billion loopty loops before that train hits the stations. Curious to hear about some historical context of revivals and comparison and contrast. And what revivals have historically influenced politically. What the positive potentials and negative potentials are in your opinion. Also in our hyper socially fractured nation, when these people go home i can imagine it leaving many people with a demand for more of that spiritual ecstasy which could be preyed upon. I know very very little about revivals but I think this is potentially the first in the 21st century.
I just unsubscribed to drinking with Historians. I was banned for a century for commenting and speaking the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That is America's dilema.
The truth is painful.
There is no politics in the USA it is all religion.
There are no compromises in religion that is why the Civil War continues.
There is no such thing as a Missouri Compromise when people worship false idols.
Without truth there can not be reconciliation. We told that to my brother Francis when he visited but he could not understand my peoples. In Quebec Jesus is our brother not a false idol.
Bill 21 is our ten commandments.
Religion, gender and race are all BULLSHIT, lies and distortion. We teach Darwin and live as Jesus instructed.
They say I am autistic that somehow it is my perception that is not normal. Voltaire said perception is real in its consequences but I am a man of many words and what Voltaire meant was perception is reality or is reality perception.
Mark Twain told me about Russia and Putin long before Putin was born. Twain understood Russia and its autocrats and he even spoke Russian. He sent his spies Tom , Huck and Jim up in a spy balloon to spy on Russia, Africa and America and wrote about it it in Tom Sawyer Abroad. Mark wrote about baseball , apple pie and motherhood. He was a journalist's journalist. Mark's writings were so dark even Diogenes' Lamp couldn't penetrate the darkness.
I found this analysis of Twain's Russia devastating. How could an American Academic get Twain so wrong?
Twain was vastly superior intellectually to Shakespeare he invented Ametrican which is a very complex code requiring my genius in linguistics and abstract mathematics. but it was Newton who said we are standing on the shoulders of giants. It was Woodrow Wilson's Creel who created the department of truth and Newspeak. Orwell just reported it.
I detest Trump, but once the man came along, the press stopped even pretending to be objective, just as the alphabet agencies and prosecutors stopped even pretending to be acting in the interests of justice, instead seeking any pretext to stop Trump.
There is no longer any right or left. Just us and them, and “them” have all the levers of power over us (whom they think of as the Great Unwashed). But our long walk through the desert may be coming to an end as people start to chafe at their chains. Don’t pillory me for being an optimist.
Another good interview:
"Take a Bow, Columbia Journalism Review: The venerable watchdog publication breaks legacy media ranks with a massive rebuke of Trump-Russia coverage. Interview with the report's dogged author, Jeff Gerth" interviewed by Matt Taibbi at Racket News.
https://www.racket.news/p/take-a-bow-columbia-journalism-review
A good way to support Mr. Gerth's investigative work is to read the articles.
Here are the citations:
Gerth, Jeff (January 30, 2023). "The press versus the president, part one". Columbia Journalism Review.
Gerth, Jeff (January 30, 2023). "The press versus the president, part two". Columbia Journalism Review.
Gerth, Jeff (January 30, 2023). "The press versus the president, part three". Columbia Journalism Review.
Gerth, Jeff (January 30, 2023). "The press versus the president, part four". Columbia Journalism Review.
https://www.cjr.org/author/jeff-gerth
I witnessed a friend losing many "friends" because she refused to simply accept the Russiagate narrative. One of the most vocal of those was a prep school, Harvard educated woman. I guess all the money spent on her education is not paying off, is it. The same person also used the Russiagate narrative to say that Bernie benefited from it - never mind that Bernie wasn't the nominee. The whole thing was, and is, absurd. I bet this Harvard educated woman still believes the election was stolen.
But what bugs me is that, in the context of Russia preventing Hillary from becoming president, I haven't seen anyone address the fact that Hillary did win the popular vote and if there is anything threatening our "democracy", let's start with the electoral college. And if she failed to win delegates, that's not a matter of interference, but a matter of bad campaigning. I thing it is so simple and all the discussion, while enlightening, is not really necessary.
The tribal near-monopoly ownership/control of the media is the cause of the loss of trust in the media: NYTmes, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, PBS and C-Span. That also explains the hysteria when a non-tribal member took over Twitter.
I read Gerth's articles when they were published and it was nice to hear a little more context from him.
I hope you do a segment on the asbury revival I’ve just become aware of. From what I see it’s been non political so far but there’s a billion loopty loops before that train hits the stations. Curious to hear about some historical context of revivals and comparison and contrast. And what revivals have historically influenced politically. What the positive potentials and negative potentials are in your opinion. Also in our hyper socially fractured nation, when these people go home i can imagine it leaving many people with a demand for more of that spiritual ecstasy which could be preyed upon. I know very very little about revivals but I think this is potentially the first in the 21st century.
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I just unsubscribed to drinking with Historians. I was banned for a century for commenting and speaking the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That is America's dilema.
The truth is painful.
There is no politics in the USA it is all religion.
There are no compromises in religion that is why the Civil War continues.
There is no such thing as a Missouri Compromise when people worship false idols.
Without truth there can not be reconciliation. We told that to my brother Francis when he visited but he could not understand my peoples. In Quebec Jesus is our brother not a false idol.
Bill 21 is our ten commandments.
Religion, gender and race are all BULLSHIT, lies and distortion. We teach Darwin and live as Jesus instructed.
They say I am autistic that somehow it is my perception that is not normal. Voltaire said perception is real in its consequences but I am a man of many words and what Voltaire meant was perception is reality or is reality perception.
Mark Twain told me about Russia and Putin long before Putin was born. Twain understood Russia and its autocrats and he even spoke Russian. He sent his spies Tom , Huck and Jim up in a spy balloon to spy on Russia, Africa and America and wrote about it it in Tom Sawyer Abroad. Mark wrote about baseball , apple pie and motherhood. He was a journalist's journalist. Mark's writings were so dark even Diogenes' Lamp couldn't penetrate the darkness.
I found this analysis of Twain's Russia devastating. How could an American Academic get Twain so wrong?
Twain was vastly superior intellectually to Shakespeare he invented Ametrican which is a very complex code requiring my genius in linguistics and abstract mathematics. but it was Newton who said we are standing on the shoulders of giants. It was Woodrow Wilson's Creel who created the department of truth and Newspeak. Orwell just reported it.
Yup. And I fell for it hook, line and sinker.
What a mess then, oggi and probably domani.