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Episode 31: "America This Week," with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn

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The Circular Construction of the Media

"It's just amazing the way that we've translated this form from a society that was so based on, at least in my conception of it, that was sobased on legal distinctions," he says. "They come up with these terms and you get dumped into a bucket as a result of that." The media start the cascade of name calling, which then becomes the basis for actual action,. And I mean, we've seen this circular construction in so many areas over the last few years", writes John Avlon.

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