
Episode 445 • • 54:08 - 56:02
445: Insider Attacks
Paid Protesters in Cairo, CNN Reporting, Media Manipulation
CNN reports that life is returning to normal in Cairo following anti-American protests, noting that many participants were actually paid to demonstrate. The hosts mock the network for presenting the common practice of paying protesters in Egypt as a new discovery. They suggest the shift in media focus from Middle Eastern unrest to the Romney video is a deliberate narrative pivot.
