The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Members Only #204 - Amplification Accusation: The Dumbest Debate Ever?
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Members Only #204 - Amplification Accusation: The Dumbest Debate Ever?

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  • Norm the Nosy Neighbor

  • A terrible coinage

  • Did Moynihan kick off this idiocy? Probably!

  • Why did we “amplify” a popular internet documentary that we didn’t like?

  • We should have disliked the thing we already disliked even more

  • Getting clicks is always more important than adhering to the unwritten colleague code

  • The only was to redeem for insufficient dislike of…

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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.