It’s Nicole Sandler, back for another day guest hosting the BradCast. Friday was another brutal day of war perpetrated by Vladimir Putin on the people of Ukraine. It’s unfathomable that this is happening. There’s coverage of it everywhere, so I thought that today, we’d focus on the rest of the news.
Well, obviously not all of it… but there were three areas I wanted to talk with the always brilliant MARCY WHEELER about. Marcy is an independent journalist who focuses on matters of national security and civil liberties at her own Emptywheel blog.
I spoke with her on Monday, Presidents’ Day, which was a few days before Putin invaded Ukraine. Nevertheless, her thoughts on what brought us to that point are interesting, as she weaves all the threads together…
The first of the three areas she enlightened on was filing by Bill Barr-appointed Special Counsel John Durham, which Fox not-News covered ad nauseum for days, criticizing the responsible media for not reporting on it…until Fox themselves suddenly stopped talking about it.
Second, the progress being made on the Jan 6 insurrectionists prosecutions and House Select Committee investigation.
And, of course, Russia/Ukraine.
Marcy spends most of the hour with us, for which I am very grateful. Listen and be informed…
An American and his wife, who had perhaps the first PR firm, counseled his client (“The War Department”) to change its name from “Department of War” into “Department of Defense”, wrote in his 1928 book “Propaganda”:
(A Closer Look At MOMCOM’s DNA – 4). Just sayin’ … not book burnin’ …