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The 'Gash Digital' Email Strategy and Chris Hedges' Hypocrisy
from Gash Digital · #56
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5 minThey joke about renaming the show's outreach email 'Gash Digital,' then Tim argues that mainstream-critical writers like Chris Hedges should be willing to appear on outsider platforms like this one instead of only respectable media.
- 5:41Tim criticizes Chris Hedges for claiming the U.S. is an arm of the devil's army on platforms while avoiding direct confrontation.
- 6:19Tim emails journalists like Jane Mayer, imagining them discovering the podcast and walking through the apartment studio in discomfort.
- 7:27The show's repeated coverage of child rape and human trafficking has become a recognizable theme that likely damages credibility with mainstream figures.
- 8:55Chris Hedges writes constantly about media corruption and propaganda while potentially failing to recognize he's part of the same alternative ecosystem.
- 9:34People who break from mainstream media and explore fringe ideas inevitably confront the question of what team they're really on.