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Informed Dissent
Pacifica's 2006 Election Special Program

This week:
"Your Brain Is My Playground"

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Summary: A detailed look at how the media has neglected the truth, the propagandists have twisted the truth, and labeling obscures the truth.

Informed Dissent Features

Segment 1: Mitch Jeserich with the week's news roundup

• A look at at election news from around the country -Election impact from the Foley scandal and the GOP leadership coverup
• Mitch Jesserich's take on the top twenty 20 corrupt politicians up for re-election. -An "intimate" look at Republican Senator Rick Santorum.
• The circle of influence running from the telecommunication corporations deep into Capital Hill.
• When great minds think alike - Republican and Democratic square off behind Iraq war veterans groups
• Former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray on extroadinary rendition and habaes corpus denial.

Segment 2: Losing faith with the media

• Veteran journalist Helen Thomas on the media's loss of nerve
• Public Eye's Chip Bradley on how political groups work to manipulate the media
• Davey D shows how a two-tiered internet could put the "real" news out of reach for many
• Is the Associated Press unduly influenced by the political beliefs of its Board members? -Dahr Jamail

Segment 3: The framing game

• Are Katrina survivors dangerous or merely "internally displaced persons"?
• Kwame Anthony Appiah on how self-identity and classification of others directly shapes public policy -Jim Derych deciphers neo-con self-talk
• Can you trust a media that doesn't value diversity to report more than homogenized news?

Segment 4: Propaganda

• Norman Mailer on the delicacy of democracy
• John H. Brown's Propaganda 101: as easy as connecting the dots
• Jim Balmer tells how politically powerful religious conservatives reinvented history
• Mushroom Cloud Theatre visits the Propaganda Museum
• Robert Knight gives pointers on how to watch TV news ... or not.

Original music by Shawn Rhodes.

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