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CIA Torture Report and Media Complicity
from Crashing Down · #33
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
3 minFurther detail on the CIA torture program, the promotion of the Zero Dark Thirty-inspiring officer, and how media outlets abandoned objectivity covering Trump.
- 1:08:33New York Times functions as a military-industrial complex apologist, corrupt as a paper of record.
- 1:08:53Trump's conduct gave media license to report with deliberate bias, opening the door for him to discredit them.
- 1:09:23Most news sources have an agenda; being informed requires reading widely, cross-referencing, and asking who benefits from the narrative.
- 1:10:03Tim imagines bringing up CIA pedophile cults at a new job, getting called into HR to explain conspiracy theories to human resources.
- 1:10:53People in California live on another planet and shut down any mention of these topics without engagement.
- 1:11:15Child sexual abuse is the worst thing, but electronics and textile production kill kids in warehouses—we grant corporations a pass on that suffering.