{"podcast":{"title":"Scheer Intelligence","slug":"scheer-intelligence-426023","podcast_index_feed_id":426023,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/scheer-intelligence/","website_url":"https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-show-rss","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/5c014846-05c2-4b8d-b060-be7d9ddbcc89/09dcfeb7-185a-4496-b8a4-0e3551e820e1-1400.jpg","author":"Scheerpost","episode_count":476,"summary":"Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with \"American Originals\" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023"},"episode":{"title":"Manufacturing Silence: The Media War Behind Gaza","slug":"manufacturing-silence-the-media-war-behind-gaza","published_at":"2026-05-25T08:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023/manufacturing-silence-the-media-war-behind-gaza","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023","url":"https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-show-rss","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ad9c517a-925e-4054-94c4-834f50841bb5.mp3","summary":"On this episode of Scheer Intelligence , host Robert Scheer speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her explosive new book The Complicit Lens: U.S. Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza . Andersen argues that corporate and legacy media did not merely fail to report the destruction of Gaza honestly — they actively distorted it through censorship, euphemism, and the suppression of historical context. From banned words like “occupation” and “genocide” to newsroom pressure campaigns and attacks on academic freedom, the conversation exposes how media institutions helped manufacture public consent while silencing dissent. What emerges is not simply a critique of journalism, but a warning about the collapse of democratic discourse itself.","meta_description":"On this episode of Scheer Intelligence , host Robert Scheer speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her explosive new book The Complicit Lens: U.S.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3103,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/scheer-intelligence-426023/episodes/manufacturing-silence-the-media-war-behind-gaza/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/scheer-intelligence-426023/manufacturing-silence-the-media-war-behind-gaza.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}