Keeping You Distracted | Unfilter 13

Keeping You Distracted | Unfilter 13

We look at the tricks and distractions the campaigns and media use to keep the public focused on their pet topics.

In ACT 1: We unfilter the media’s talking points around the tragic shooting that took place this last week in the south of Milwaukee. Plus the story behind the bad week medical marijuana had, and some news updates from around the world.

In ACT2: Is the media robbing the American people of their opportunity for a rational, and effective public discussion? This week using the lens of the reignited gun-control debate we’ll ask some hard questions.

In ACT 3: Some follow up on a few stories from the recent weeks.

All that and much more, in this week’s Unfilter.

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Show Notes:

ACT ONE:

Tech Related News:

ACT TWO: Election Year Distractions

ACT THREE: Feedback

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  • MrDooDe

    Amazing show guys, keep it up

  • Bleep

    Scam people out of 65 million $ you get a nice letter asking you to turn yourself in or nearly destroy the world economy nothing at all happens, but being perceived as a potential threat to profits a relatively small industry you get a full on police raid with choppers and everything. USA USA USA!

  • Joe

    Chris,
    I posted a comment to your last show expressing my concern over the juvenile approach you seem to be taking regarding the topics being discussed. This approach has continued into this episode and I feel I have to unsubscribe from this podcast. It would have been nice to get a response expressing your side and addressing my concerns. Particularly since I posted an additional comment with a link to an article shedding greater light on the Pentagon/Police arms discussion you discussed only to find that the post was deleted. I sent you an e-mail asking if you had deleted it intentionally or if it was a simple glitch. Never heard back on that either.
    I do enjoy some of your other podcasts, such as Techsnap (but honestly, I listen for Allen’s comments, which I find more informative than the color commentary you tend to supply). The idea for this podcast is a good one, but your continuing snickering, giggling, and mocking is placing you and the other hosts in the rank amateur department of silliness and I cannot take this podcast seriously. On multiple occasions you feel it necessary to repeat what a person in a clip is saying while affecting an accent to make that person sound foolish or simply be dismissive of what they are saying. Your own information is certainly not free of errors and I find myself cringing when I know you have made a factual error and then lampooned someone else for doing so. Sorry, life is too short to waste on mediocrity and that is all this podcast has shown itself to be.

  • ChrisLAS

    Sorry to loose you as a listener, it’s defiantly not a show for everyone.

    Have a good weekend,
    -Chris

  • kintoki

    Page setup story around his random killing by US medias remembers me was was done by french medias with the Mohamed Merat killings in france. You take a common thug Mohamed Merat he start killing people first to robe a vehicule then cause he wanted to kill people then he kills jews children out of their jew school the police discover him because he went to a garage to remove the anti thief gps from his robed motorcycle. And Bang the guy is camped at home by the police meanwhile french medias dig up his past discovered he went twice in afghanistan and all of a suddent a common thug thief that wants to kill random people in the street becomes a Al Quaida solder with a true plan and a true purpose. The fact that he started killing random people in the street and first to robe a motorcycle was totally forgotten after he killed the jew kids. Mohamed merat was locked in his house during 30 hours in the meanwhile he saw on tv the purpose the media was making around his demential act and start revendicating those dead as being part of an alquaida wider plan without nothing to backup that.

    While Page is accused to be trained to warfare and being a white supremacy terrorist mohamend merat is accused to be trained to warfare and being an AlQuaida soldier.
    Two different countries but two similar setups in the story and the point of view how they transform a dement into a killer with a racial message to display and a “legit” purpose.

  • kintoki

    problem is most of the time the setup stories made from ground up by the medias are not even convincing a 4 year old kid… I like being juvenil objective after all if the B.S you are telling a 4 year old kid don’t believe it why a all grown up resonable and responsible citizen should be convinced. Truth is we prefer buy CNN genuine lies than have a true relexion about the world, how it goes and what should/could be our influence on it. Just work pay tax and debpts and STFU. Basically that is what is expected of us. And by the way if you happend to buy the stuff you see during the tv commercial on your next shopping round you would be very very welcome. I like unfilter this is a great show.

  • kintoki

    Basic problem with medical purpose for marijuana isn’t that it is effective. It is that you give a clean altruist purpose (help releave pain or cure nervous disorders) to something stamped negatively to be a nasty bad thing… Ain’t feeting… If you want people to continue buying the B.S you are telling them then neverever ever ever eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeer contradict yourself. So you can’t say marijuana is banned for hobbyistic use and allowed for medical use which helps actually humanity…

  • Sid

    @508e02de9f2b574422887ea2af0bf11a:disqus
    OH PLEASE.. The reason medical marijuana is banned is that no
    responsible doctor is going to prescribe the inhalation of carcinogenic
    fumes when there are safer alternatives out there (vaporizers
    attenuate, but don’t eliminate the negative effects of method of
    consumption). Irrespective of what notion you might have of the
    government (or Big Pharma) controlling the legislation and
    administration of medical marijuana, the current policies are in total
    agreement with the consensus of the biomedical research community.

    I love the LAS (and I am a big advocate of abolishing cannabis prohibition), but this podcast is just a crock of shit: entirely ridden with conspiracy-mongering quackery. Stick to being tech geeks, at least there you aren’t putting dangerous falsehoods in the heads of people.

    No – water fluoridation does not cause nerve damage; vaccines do not cause autism; 9/11 was not orchestrated by the U.S. government; the moon landing was not faked; Jesus did not actually rise from the dead; there is no such thing as “subluxuation”, chakra, qi or non-specific “toxins”; homeopathy is not anything other than a placebo; there is no political agenda behind climate science; alternative medicine does not work (if it did it would seize to be alternative); eating genetically modified food is not inherently harmful; natural does not mean “good”; Zeitgeist: The Movie is not even remotely factual; David Icke really just is fucking crazy.

    I’ve probably offended about 98% of the internet, so my work here is done.

  • franzkafka

    Great stuff and very true.

    It’s too bad Chris tends to generally ignore this kind of feedback… I give JB another year at the rate it’s going (no Brian… no video game content… Unfilter being a priority)… Sadly, it’s the good shows that are going to be missed and they’re going to be lost because of this kind of content and the wingnut people it attracts (see kintoki below)…

  • S0S0

    Any other alternatives to jupiterbroadcasting?

  • franzkafka

    Not sure why.. I’ve tried to post links twice now and they haven’t shown up. google blubrry, linux outlaws and linux basement for some good non-JB podcasts on similar topics.