Attack Ads! The Podcast
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Sinopsis
Attack Ads! questions the dominance of media supported mainly by the corrupting influence of commercial advertising sponsorship, and aims to raise both awareness and outrage at the limitations such a system produces.
Episodios
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Dreaming of an Off-White Xmas
22/12/2020 Duración: 14minFor the sixth year now, I present some holiday cheer (well, more accurately, "cheer" as defined by me, a sick snickering cynical bastard). Enjoy my completely off-color, in-no-way safe for children or work Episode 166: Dreaming of an Off-White Xmas. Show notes can be found at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/12/episode-166-dreaming-of-off-white-xmas.html
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Dear Nova
09/12/2020 Duración: 25minNo matter what the crisis, it is critical that people are given options. When options conflict with well-vested opinions—or worse, business models—don't expect them to be explained well. I protest one such money silencing in this Episode 165: Dear Nova. Visit the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/12/episode-165-dear-nova.html
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Something On Which You Can Depend
24/11/2020 Duración: 34minKnowing the cost of what advertisers spend to get your attention is not the full story. For that, you really need to appreciate the value that attention is worth to those that hire those ad men. And that is Episode 164: Something On Which You Can Depend. See the Show Notes at: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/episode-164-something-on-which-you-can.html
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The Sheer Amount of Space in Our Day
11/11/2020 Duración: 22minHave you ever considered how much is spent befouling our attentions with ads? In other words, how much do people pay to get your attention? I'll examine an article that attempts to discover that in this Episode 163: The Sheer Amount of Space in Our Day. For Links at the Show Notes Page, head to: https://attackadspodcast.blogspot.com/2020/11/episode-163-sheer-amount-of-space-in.html (Hey, Pim! Jim here. I've put the link to the Show Notes page both embedded in the first description and separately below it, in case your pod feeder doesn't like embeds. Let me know which one works best! —Jim.)
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WTN The Ad-Fueled Dumpster Fire
28/10/2020 Duración: 37minWhen the news chooses to focus on everything politically except at an entire movement drastically changing the world, they fail everyone. Our news becomes nothing but the title of this Episode 162: The Ad-Fueled Dumpster Fire.
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WTN Aphoristic Dissonance
14/10/2020 Duración: 26minWe all use language to codify and structure the reality around us. We have to be careful, though, not to hide within unexamined aphorisms internal impossibilities that mask from us what is really going on. Hence, Episode 161: Aphoristic Dissonance.
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Three Necessary Tiers of Freedom
30/09/2020 Duración: 26minIn the last episode, I bitched about not finding my show in a portal search; but what might happen next? Things could get so much worse for podcasters who refuse to bow to ad pressures, as I explore in this Episode 160: Three Necessary Tiers of Freedom.
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Now You Find Me….
16/09/2020 Duración: 22minIt sometimes takes an event well beyond my ability to "fix" before an idea worth indulging motivates me to create an episode. Imperious corporate impediments to increasing my show’s listenership prompt this Episode 159: Now You Find Me….
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From a Crawl to a Walk
02/09/2020 Duración: 18minIn this Episode 158: From a Crawl to a Walk, I share a discovery that is more than simply monumental and epic in its own right, it's oxymoronic: a Walkable Crawlspace.
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Without the Slightest Belch
12/08/2020 Duración: 26minIn Jerry Mander's first of his Four Arguments, I look at what he feels happens to us when the doors of perception are all but closed to nature; through our unnatural media, autocracy rushes in to fill us. Hence, Episode 157: Without the Slightest Belch.
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Our Unbroken Economy
29/07/2020 Duración: 38minFor reasons too few truly understand, in our “economy,” too few citizens are invested profitably: in the position of holding assets that increase wealth simply by dint of ownership. I free-form rant on this in Episode 156: Our Unbroken Economy.
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Dueling Fictions, Dueling Crises
14/07/2020 Duración: 27minWe currently live through two plagues: one, CoVID-19; the other, vested interests pay not just to shove a plague of bad ideas at all of us, but also to keep good ideas as far away as possible. Hence, Episode 155: Dueling Fictions, Dueling Crises.
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Mander's Four Arguments: An Introduction
01/07/2020 Duración: 21minIt should come as no surprise that, though influential and important, certain books suffer in reputation simply because they question more dominant media. I give an overview in such a book in this Episode 154: Mander's Four Arguments: An Introduction.
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No News Is Still Bad News
17/06/2020 Duración: 20minI admit it: I tend to get distracted and wander off topic. Today, I get back to observing the collapse of journalism—and trying to prevent it—with some unhelpful help from public radio personalities in this return Episode 153: No News Is Still Bad News.
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The Nuisance Economy
02/06/2020 Duración: 24minOnce and a while, it's good to expend a little more effort in order to expend a bit less effort. It's complicated. Anyway, enjoy the result, a chat with Chad of the Hip Crime Vocab Blog in this Episode 152: The Nuisance Economy.
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A Rare Opportunity to Reimagine
27/05/2020 Duración: 26minNever let a good crisis go unexploited, said someone, somewhere. It's good advice. It allows us to see what we've been missing, and maybe what we should keep missing. That's the idea in this Episode 151: A Rare Opportunity to Reimagine.
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Ligers and Tigons and Joe
12/05/2020 Duración: 26minDon't you hate it when someone comes along and makes you realize that everything you've grown used to supporting is just as toxic as what you really despise? I confront the compromise and the damage done in this Episode 150: Ligers and Tigons and Joe.
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Watching the World Go To Health
29/04/2020 Duración: 26minYou exercise, and for what? Today, the devices that help you work out work against you, reducing your fitness sweaty efforts into further fodder for surveillance profits. That's what I cover in this Episode 149: Watching the World Go To Health.
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…and Bernie 2020
16/04/2020 Duración: 18minWhat happens when a presidential candidate’s positions threaten not just the business of news, but also offend the sensibilities of those personalities who are paid so very well to present it? I explore this phenomenon in Episode 148: …and Bernie 2020.
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Blankstorm '95, COVID-19, and…
01/04/2020 Duración: 24minYou might only realize how interesting the times in which you live really are when it's hard to distinguish which is worse: the reality surrounding you; or the commercial reporting on that reality. Hence, Episode 147: Blankstorm '95, CoVID-19, and…