Elliot Williams

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443 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 26 Jun

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IHIP News · Ex-ICE Insider Exposes Cruel Practices, It's Even Worse Than You Imagined · 24 Jan 2026 podcast

And if you think about 1985, where there wasn't CNN, MSNBC, Fox, I've had it, podcasts, The Scott Jennings Show, whatever else.

there was three games in town.

And if the newspapers were constantly telling you, you're scared, you're scared, you're scared, you're scared, you're scared, people would buy the newspaper, get scared, buy the newspaper again, get more scared.

And it just created this cycle of fear and resentment of other people, of black people and so on.

And that was a huge moment in the history of news.

And as I say in the book,

It's no secret that Rupert Murdoch goes on to found the Fox News channel decades later because a lot of their success has been in frightening people.

You're in a red state.

You are far more likely to see images of people looting CVS

than you are to see if you were to pan the camera, okay, looting, looting, looting, black folks stealing diapers from CVS or whatever.

If you pan the camera to the right in that city, there's probably a park that has children playing in it that used to be a place where crack lords and organized crime were.

or ran their stuff 20 or 30 years ago.

But you're not seeing that.

What you're seeing is the looting, which is a crime.

But that's what, going back to that moment in 1977 media, that's what they've chosen to focus on.

And it just makes people angrier.

hardens their views, it makes them more bigoted, it makes them more angry, and it makes vigilante shootings like the one Bernie gets engaged in more likely and more common.

So it's really a look at, it's taking one moment in America and broadening it to why are we so obsessed with vigilantes and this guy, this white guy today.

And, you know, the one thing I would add to that, and I talk about this toward the end of the book, Five Bullets, it's not just the media, what is the media, right?

It's not just newspapers anymore, but it's the algorithms now that only feed you like-minded things.

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