Snowden Airport Coverage, Media Conspiracy Nuggets
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open the show by mocking the "TV news porn" surrounding Edward Snowden's expected arrival at a Moscow airport. They analyze how mainstream media uses "conspiracy nuggets" to bait audiences who no longer trust traditional news sources. The discussion touches on WikiLeaks tweeting flight numbers and the role of Glenn Greenwald as a public relations figure for the leaker.
edward snowden· moscow airport· glenn greenwald· wikileaks· conspiracy theories
00:00 Hey man, we could have like 50 terror strikes a year every single week. We could be dead from people blowing up the stock exchange and it'll crash our entire economy and there'd be no money coming out of the ATMs. People should be freaking out man! We can't do this to them! They're our security for liberty or whatever I don't care if...we can't do this! Adam Curry John C Devorah It's Sunday June 23rd 2013 time for your Gizmo Nation Media Assassination episode 524 This is No Agenda Everybody from the Travis Heights hideout in Austin Tejas in the morning I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley the Mecca of Tekka That's right, I forgot to say. I mean the capital of the drone star state that would make your mecca of tekkah come out better all right
00:54 Here we are. No, actually John I'm here at Moscow Airport where I am here with many reporters and photographers it's just wall to wall crazy John! We're waiting for Leaker Snowden to show up Tell me what you've learned Adam Well i'm learning that everyone knows he is going to be here And we don't know Glenn Greenwald will be calling in soon Who seems to be his PR person now Did they fake? You sure they're going to be at the airport, not the train station? No no! We have the graphics on screen. We have the little airplane flying from Hong Kong to Moscow so therefore we know that he will be arriving here John This is like porn for these people It's total TV news porn what's taking place now So it's like... of course I guess Snowden never read The Confessions Of An Economic Hitman
01:57 concerning these little planes but okay well he's not taking a little plane he's on an end he's like I'm uh on an Aeroflot like a commercial airline yeah yeah you have to kill ya know and of course wikiLeaks has to tweet his exact flight number this thing is it so transparent what's going on now and you know and and so i retweet this WikiLeaks thing unlike yeah that's just sneaking about the country by telling them light number that's good work yeah and then This is good. They should do that because you know he's protected by being public now Do people not realize that wikiLeaks is the CIA John F Kennedy? Oh, please this is it so crazy what is going on right now and I think Such a perfect job as being done of sucking in the alternative thinking
02:53 Masses which are truly our masses people no longer believe the news media Because the news media is now baiting them with you know little conspiracy nuggets It's just like here take this conspiracy nugget a little conspiracy She little uh, little doggie treat here. I'll give this to you let them all fight over that it's just wow I mean Wow It's funny the way they've done that too. They got Alex Jones on the one hand for the people who have to go off the deep end and think they're going to die at any minute, then they have... And then the spectrum goes all the way to bemoaning conspiracy theory and everything in between. The people who don't know what a conspiracy is
