We talk about a situation in Syria that wound up getting ignored by our domestic streaming news media. We also discuss the impact of such active ignorance. Matt Gaetz somehow gets mentioned too.

Links:

• Florida Phoenix via Yahoo! News ‘The Matt Gaetz Show’ to premiere on OAN next month, but might be hard to find on Florida cable https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-gaetz-show-premiere-oan-163229807.html

• 69 Admins Episode 35: Your Own Station https://69admins.com/2024/episode-35.html

• Simple English Wikipedia Fall of the Assad Regime https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fall_of_the_Assad_regime&oldid=9937162

• Simple English Wikipedia Fall of Damascus https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fall_of_Damascus&oldid=9932809

• Local News Initiative In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide: But what does this election-result correlation mean? https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/12/05/trump-wins-news-deserts-in-landslide/

• Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media WHAT EXACTLY IS A ‘NEWS DESERT’? https://www.cislm.org/what-exactly-is-a-news-desert/

• USA Today Trump jokingly calls Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 'Governor of the Great State of Canada' https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/10/trump-jokes-canada-prime-minister-trudeau-governor/76886561007/

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