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“This show was good & informative during the Trump administration, but its … editorial position? … has been degenerating into a there-is-no-alternative style celebration of the Dem-side neoliberalism. It feels very out of touch with the lived reality of people who aren't policy insiders, government workers, or procedural wonks. Its guests broaden the politics on display, so it's not exactly an echo chamber, but is very tied to the current moment's overton window of "centrist" liberal vs conservative.
Some of the spinoff shows are embarassingly awful in what they're presenting as fact (the spy shows in particular); they all show up on the main feed.
A few examples of out-of-touchness from the past few years:
- immediately after George Floyd's murder, when there was massive unrest and street violence with the *police attacking the citizenry*, several eps came out in various policy related topics; the George Floyd related events were not even mentioned in passing.
- uncritical acceptance & presentation of the sketchy "havana syndrome ray gun" syndrome as being factual.
- partisan identification with the Biden administration leading to repeated "how do we educate people that Biden's economy is good" when, in the lived experience of many people, it very obviously is not.
- mostly glossing over the indiscriminate destruction of Gaza and slaughter of Palestineans by Netanyahu's IDF, instead sticking to the Biden admin perspective of "how do we help them" / conflating Hamas with the Palestinean population at large.
- assuming that "AI" technology (LLM based generative models, particularly as offered for widescale use in 2023) will inevitably grow and be used in more places, such as for autonomous war machines, platforming its boosters and buying into the current tech hype cycle uncritically.
There are things related to the show's production that make this worse:
- locking themselves behind "The DSR Network", which listeners are expected to join to give any feedback, creates an echo chamber of people who are mostly bought in to their distorted perspective. (When they first announced it, I did not join because I was irritated by the out of touchness; it has gotten a good deal worse since).
- they do an annoying "well, that's it! unless you want to join, to hear the rest of the episode" in most eps. Frankly it's better to have some short snippet full-eps-for-members-only previews, and other full eps, than cutting each ep off.
I feel like this show could come back, but only David Rothkopf and the DSR Network stakeholders wake up and stick their head out of the echo chamber they're evidently working in. These problems are avoidable and *embarrasing*.
Please turn this around!”Read full review »
Honore Doktorr via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/01/23
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