Radicals in Conversation is a monthly podcast from Pluto Press, one of the world’s leading independent, radical publishers. Every month we sit down with leading campaigners, authors and academics to bring you in-depth conversations and radical perspectives on the issues that matter the most.
With Adam Johnson.
As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But mainstream media was quick to downplay, obscure, and repackage an emerging campaign of extermination into a slick “war on terror” framework.
We’re joined on show this month by Adam Johnson, author of How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza.
We discuss the US media’s role in enabling one of the most devastating campaigns of mass killing in modern memory. Adam unpacks how major outlets like The New York Times, CNN, and MSNBC systematically sanitized Israel’s war crimes, hid the US’s central role, and dehumanized the Palestinian people. We also discuss the ways in which liberal media continues to provide cover in the context of the US-Israeli war against Iran.
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About the show
Radicals in Conversation is the monthly podcast from Pluto Press, hosted by Chris Browne. Each episode we sit down with leading authors and campaigners to bring you in-depth conversations and radical perspectives on the issues that matter the most.
Since 2017 we have hosted discussions on a wide range of subjects: from abolitionism, the climate crisis and Palestine/Israel, to neurodiversity, social reproduction theory and workplace organising. Past guests include Tithi Bhattacharya, Shuli Branson, Robert Chapman, Andrew Feinstein, Nick Hayes, John Holloway, Joy James, M. E. O’Brien, Lola Olufemi, David Olusoga, Françoise Vergès and Rafeef Ziadah.
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