A Farewell To Bad News feat Ken Klippenstein (E278)

QAA Podcast

Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

News

4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

A discussion of the corporatization of media, his departure from The Intercept, how stories get "killed" and how conspiracy theorists and MAGA supporters' claims about the media get their oxygen — with Ken Klippenstein, investigative journalist. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to podcast mini-series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Ken Klippenstein: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/ Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (http://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) http://qaapodcast.com QAA was formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:24.0	I'm going to be Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, If you're hearing this, well done. You need me.
0:29.0	If you're hearing this, well done. You found a way to connect to the internet.
0:37.0	Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 278 of Farewell to Bad News.
0:42.0	As always, we're your host Jake Jake Rockitanski, Ken Klippenstein, Julian Fields, and Travis
0:46.4	View.
0:47.4	As we recently learned in Alex Garland's movie Civil War, America is polarized, and the only people who can save it if we just let them do their damn job
0:56.6	are journalists.
0:57.7	But there's just one problem.
0:59.4	People trust them less and less.
1:01.6	Ask MAGA supporters and Q-Anon followers and you'll probably hear a familiar line.
1:05.0	The fake news media is corrupt and you can't rely on them for information.
1:09.0	This often causes a knee-jerk reaction from their liberal counterparts who insist that journalism is under attack to the detriment of democracy.
1:16.6	But as usual, there's a grain of truth to the conspiratorial thinking.
1:20.0	The majority of the mainstream news media is owned by our ruling class, literally,
1:24.8	and they often pay lip service to the very security state they're supposed to be covering critically,
1:29.0	even using their spokespeople as sources while protecting their anonymity.
1:32.6	There's also the question of funding.
1:34.4	Billionaires bank roll media institutions,
1:36.6	and in return, those in charge of these flagship outlets mitigate criticism of
1:40.6	their supposedly philanthropic benefactors.
1:43.1	And if you don't take money from billionaire donors,
1:45.1	you'll still have to answer to corporate advertisers.
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