YR278 The Echo Chamber or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bloat

This is a serious Yeast Radio show. I inturdviewed the brilliant create of The Echo Chamber Project, Kent Bye. If you are concerned about the shitty sucky media in this cuntry, then you need to hear this show.

Show notes from Kent Bye:
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Two blog posts with more information describing the mechanics of collaborative filmmaking:
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SMIL Demos: Paving the Way for Collaborative Audio Editing

A 30-minute pre-war speech from Scott Ritter that predicted the upcoming PR campaign to sell the war in Iraq by using weapons of mass destruction as the pretext. This was the speech catalyzed The Echo Chamber Project.

Jay Rosen talks about how “a lot of people want to enter into the public world through the eyes and the arguments and the ideas of bloggers.”

Doug Rushkoff
talks about the new media renaissance and questions the traditional dramatic curve narrative format.

Baltimore City Paper Cover Story that talks more about the genesis of the Echo Chamber Project and the political transformation that Kent went through leading up to the project.

Josh Marshall comments on the PR strategy of the White House’s pushback:
“The White House doesn’t need to win any debates. What they need is for their core supporters to have something to say. Anything. And to be able to say it loudly. The one thing that would be fatal for the White House from its defenders would be silence.”

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