Hey, this is Unlimited Hale, I'm your host Whitney Webb.

It goes without saying that COVID-19 has been a planet-altering event similar to September

11th, 2001, but on a much larger scale and timeline.

Yet, as Obama's former chief of staff once infamously noted, never let a good crisis

go to waste, and COVID-19, like 9-11 and other such events, has offered opportunists

and power around the world the chance to pursue a host of agendas that would likely be rejected

by the general public under more normal circumstances.

Such opportunism would not be possible, however, without the media, which manufactures

consent for these agendas and creates narratives that link their implementation to the common

good, which more often than not in the COVID era has been the professed promotion of public

health.

In the COVID era, as it was with the war on terror before, it is the media and propaganda

that works to exclusively shape the public's understanding of an enemy they cannot see

or touch, but that they are told lurks around every corner and in every crevice and can

only be combated by trading more and more freedom for what is more often than not the illusion

of more security.

Joining me today to discuss the ins and outs of propaganda in the age of COVID and much

more is Mark Crispin Miller.

Mark is a professor of media culture and communication at New York University, as well as the author

of several books on media and US politics.

He has long been a prominent voice and independent media, but many of the voices who gave Mark a

regular platform to discuss his work on election integrity and the propaganda of imperialism

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