On this week’s BradCast on KPFK/Pacifica Radio we spoke first with Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) about whether the MSM — despite recent hand-wringing over failures in the run-up to Iraq 10 years ago — repeated the same behavior in the run-up to the almost-war in Syria.
Next, I was joined by Phil Plait of Slate’s “Bad Astronomy” blog to discuss two related-ish things. First, as Plait is based on Boulder, CO, we got an update on the unprecedented “biblical” flooding there, the reasons for it, and the potential dangers to washed out fracking and drilling operations in the area. Second, we discussed the horrible climate change denialist “reporting” over the last couple of weeks that has been cranked up to 11 by Murdoch and his fossil fuel-friendly propagandists in advance of the UN’s upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report — the first since 2007 — due out next week.
Finally, in whatever time we had left, a few updates on our hoped-for VETO of CA’s terrible new voting system bill, SB 360; some good news in journalist Jason Leopold’s lawsuit to unseal Guantanamo security documents; the latest Green News Report with Desi Doyen, and a bit more. Enjoy!
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[audio:http://bradblog.com/audio/KPFK_BradFriedman_NaureckasSyriaCoverage_PlaitBoulderClimateChange_091813.mp3]
