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Have to recommend the podcast from No Agenda. No Agenda, a show where former VJ Adam Curry and columnist John C. Dvorak, two experts from the media industry, have a conversation about politics. Twice a week they deconstruct the news cycle and give insights into the narrative of the mainstream media, political campaigns and the government.

https://www.noagendashow.net/

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A HN comment turned me onto this podcast several years ago and its one of the ones that has endured and is part of my regular rotation. The hosts present and comment on the coverage of various current events in the broadcast press. Because so much of current events is political, there are plenty of opportunities to quibble regarding opinion and some people get annoyed at their style that lampoons the morning zoo formay. But, I get value from their aggregation and analysis, since I don't own a TV and am kind of insulated from the day-to-day press narrative.

So as to not post again in the thread, Le Show by Harry Schearer is a political satire radio show from a man who used to voice a ton of characters for The Simpsons. Hes been doing his show for over 30 years and its still very entertaining. I have listened to it for the majority of my life, when it used to broadcast on the radio (it still does). Give it a listen!

https://www.wwno.org/show/le-show

This is not a great. I used to listen to it late 2000s-early 2010s era and honestly it was one of the worst podcasts I have heard when it comes to begging for money. Think the Wikipedia call to donations banner times 20. Whenever there used to be a week where they didn't get as many donation as they expected the hosts (esp Adam) would literally throw a fit on air acting pissy and threatening to quit the show. All the whining about the donations completely turned me off and have never looked back, also not to mention a good 20-30 mins of each episode was a glorified add/call for donations.

That whole 30 minutes of “call for donations” is actually them reading letters from donors - most of which are entertaining and informative.

Spinning the call for donations into a segment of content this way is pretty brilliant.

I don't have time to get into this, but I think it's pretty embarrassing that this podcast is still recommended. It's not "media deconstruction", it's two out-of-touch, low information conservatives repeatedly being incorrect and then changing their narrative to fit whatever is currently popular in conspiratorial conservative media.

i would agree. i was a listener from 2007 to 2017, the only value that they have provided for me was the obscure and the absurdist humour with jingles and banter.

it does not make you smarter or more aware of what’s happening, but you can have an occasional laugh.

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