{"podcast":{"title":"Groundings","slug":"groundings-709368","podcast_index_feed_id":709368,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/zh8AFQk6","website_url":"https://groundings.simplecast.fm","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e07447e1-2626-4d48-950a-fd58e73fffe0/4ee3da56-e0c5-4332-9c87-d1ea6931ccba/3000x3000/groundings-s5.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Devyn Springer","episode_count":73,"summary":"Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The title \"Groundings\" is in honor of the revolutionary educator Walter Rodney, whose concept of \"groundings\" as a form of radical, political, and communal education inspires the conversations on this podcast. Groundings: we sit, we listen, we talk, we share, and we learn.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T08:27:05.384798+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/groundings-709368"},"episode":{"title":"Michael Parenti, Media Manipulation & Imperialist Propaganda (January 12, 2026)","slug":"michael-parenti-media-manipulation-imperialist-propaganda-january-12-2026","published_at":"2026-01-28T22:36:32+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/groundings-709368/michael-parenti-media-manipulation-imperialist-propaganda-january-12-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/groundings-709368","url":"https://groundings.simplecast.fm","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/0d1a5427-76de-4ae9-8585-c437c5cce120/episodes/ead1c8e8-f28e-4b35-b7ae-3c8235f92326/audio/52da60e0-b929-4a8e-9052-3dc5918d4566/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=zh8AFQk6","summary":"This episode of RAP (Revolutionary African Perspectives) broadcast on January 12, 2026. We cover 5 mechanisms colonial media uses to promote imperialist propaganda: (1) Stenographer for the State, (2) Selective Reporting, (3) Active vs Passive Language, (4) Dehumanizing Reporting, and (5) Information Control.","meta_description":"This episode of RAP (Revolutionary African Perspectives) broadcast on January 12, 2026. We cover 5 mechanisms colonial media uses to promote imperialist p…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3587,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/groundings-709368/episodes/michael-parenti-media-manipulation-imperialist-propaganda-january-12-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/groundings-709368/michael-parenti-media-manipulation-imperialist-propaganda-january-12-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}