In David Lodge’s novel Changing Places, the American anti-hero Morris Zapp spends six months of exile in the city of “Rummidge” in the English Midlands. Seeking something that might remind him of California, he tunes in to a pop music …
Episode 426 – Who Controls the News Controls the World
I noticed a funny thing when browsing the propaganda newswires lately: all of the stories about the Queen’s death said the exact same thing! What’s going on here, and why does it matter? Join James for a wild ride through …
The American media’s racism fantasy
It was the kind of correction you love to see. The story that originally broke in the final days of August, about a young black athlete being racially heckled in front of a crowd of thousands at Utah’s Brigham Young …
America doesn’t want a civil war
In the story America tells about 9/11, the attack was a tragedy, but a tragedy that united the nation. “We were able to come together as a country at that terrible time; we put aside differences,” said Hillary Clinton on …
Mass Media Q & A – Questions For Corbett #089
As promised, today James does a question and answer with some students of his Mass Media: A History online course. From the history of media to our relationship with to an intriguing question about Gulf War embedded reporting that goes …
Delete Your Social Media – #SolutionsWatch
Even the Big Techers admit it: social media is ripping apart the fabric of our society. So the solution is simple, right? Delete your social media! Or is it not that simple? Join James on today’s edition of #SolutionsWatch as …
Interview 1740 – Declare Your Independence From The Media Matrix
via FreedomsPhoenix.com: James joins Ernest Hancock for his regular appearance on the Declare Your Independence radio show to discuss how media is used to distract us from real life and real solutions.
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The Lord of the Daily Mail
Lord Northcliffe — founder of the Daily Mail, inventor of tabloid journalism, the most significant media innovator of the early 20th century — ended up in Hell. At least this was where Ezra Pound put him in his Cantos, “broken/ …
A Mass Media Reading List – Questions For Corbett #088
Jackie writes in to ask for another book list, so James obliges by going through the reading list for the new Mass Media: A History online course.
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Episode 423 – Into The Metaverse (The Media Matrix — Part 3)
We stand at a precipice. On one side is “reality”: the original, authentic, lived human experience. And on the other side is the metaverse: the world of constantly mediated experience. In the middle is hyperreality, that blurry space between the …
Why the Tories love a clown show
It was the summer of 1995. The Tory leadership struggle was in full swing, and after days of intense excitement Britain’s next Prime Minister — or so he hoped — was poised to emerge into the national spotlight.
The challenger …
Interview 1736 – James Corbett on Media, Truth and Power
James talks to Alison Morrow about his new documentary series, The Media Matrix. They discuss the history of the mass media, its effects on the population, how media power translates to political power, the printing press’ role in the creation …
Episode 422 – What Hath God Wrought (The Media Matrix — Part 2)
It’s difficult for us to appreciate just how incredible it was for those who first witnessed communication from a distance with a disembodied electric ghost. In fact, it was almost impossible for people to understand this type of communication in …
The Media Matrix
Media. It surrounds us. We live our lives in it and through it. We structure our lives around it. But it wasn’t always this way. So how did we get here? And where is the media technology that increasingly governs …
Episode 421 – The Gutenberg Conspiracy (The Media Matrix — Part 1)
From the Renaissance to the Reformation, from the fall of feudalism to the rise of capitalism, from the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution, from the way we order our thoughts to what we choose to think about, nothing survived …