Hello, dear patrons!
Despite it being nearly summer, we're taking a brief spring break! We'll be back later this month with new releases. In the meantime, you can find some of last month's News Briefs and Episodes below in case you missed them.
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News Brief: The Call to Boycott—and Delegitimize—The New York Times | May 27, 2026
In this News Brief conversation, we are joined by Chris Mills Rodrigo, a journalist, editor and organizer for Writers Against the War on Gaza, to discuss the coalition's call to boycott The New York Times for its complicity in genocide.
Episode 238: The Fictional, Racist, Paranoia-Sowing "Sleeper Cell" Media Construction | May 20, 2026
On this episode, we examine the mindless and largely fictional concept of the “sleeper cell,” analyzing how it’s a transparent propaganda trope designed to Bring The War Home for an increasingly war-weary public, promote racial profiling and distrust of Arabs and Muslims more broadly, and give the American public the vague impression that if we don’t kill The Bad Guys Over There 6,000 miles away, they’ll come and murder our families right here at home.
With guest Moustafa Bayoumi.
Live Show: How to Sell a Genocide Book Talk at The Word Is Change | May 13, 2026
A recording of a live event featuring a conversation between Adam and Nima about Adam’s new book, How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza.
The event was held in front of a live audience at The Word Is Change, a community bookstore in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday, May 7, 2026.
News Brief: 'Peak TV,' Streamer Studio Accounting Gimmicks, and the Precarity of Hollywood Labor | May 6, 2026
In this News Brief, we are joined by Miranda Banks and Kate Fortmueller, authors of the new book Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers. Tracking the transformation of streaming services into studios, the overproduction of series during the "Peak TV" era, and the fallout in Hollywood of both the #MeToo movement and the COVID pandemic, the book explains how the conflicting interests of studio executives, creative workers, and workers' unions changed Hollywood forever.