Mute the Media

Mute the Media

By The Nameless Pod with Mat and KaseyNewsHealth & FitnessGovernmentPoliticsFitness
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Mute the Media episodes

  • 7: Introduction to Media
    Mat and Kasey begin the conversation about the internet, media, and social media as they discuss some of the good/bad media impacts on society today.

    Remember you can find us and subscribe at Apple or Spotify. You can always find us on our Facebook page at Mute the Media or our host site Audioboom as well (links below).

    Sources

    1) How people access media today per Pew Research Center
    - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/12/more-than-eight-in-ten-americans-get-news-from-digital-devices/

    2) Where people are getting their news per Pew Research Center
    - https://www.journalism.org/2021/01/12/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-in-2020/

    3) 6/10 people aren't clicking their own link when they share to SM, research indicates that it's as high as 7/10 people not clicking past the headline on Facebook
    - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/06/16/six-in-10-of-you-will-share-this-link-without-reading-it-according-to-a-new-and-depressing-study/
    - http://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-facebook-commenters-only-read-the-headline/
    - https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01281190

    4) Guide To Sources, this is not exhaustive or perfect. Just a tool/starting point and can be found on the Mute the Media facebook page or at the bottom. 

    How to find us!

    Apple 
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nameless-pod-with-mat-and-kasey/id1550128430?uo=4

    Spotify
    https://open.spotify.com/show/36wv9yJHH4tDBlpc7iMfiv

    Audioboom
    https://audioboom.com/channels/5042046

    Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/MutetheMedia

    Media Source Guide

    Least/Minimal Bias 

    The AP
    Reuters
    American Heritage
    CSpan
    The Christian Science Monitor
    CNET
    The CBO (Congressional Budget Office)
    Doctors Without Border
    FactCheck
    Gallup
    Harvard Business Review
    Investopedia
    PewResearch
    Politico
    Politifact
    Rand Corporation
    Snopes
    Statista
    The Balance
    The Economist
    The Hill
    ThoughtCo
    TruthOrFiction
    Voice Of America
    Wikipedia
    Worldometer

    Right Leaning

    Cato Institute
    Reason
    Christianity Today
    Forbes
    Fox Business
    Fortune
    The Economist
    Heterodox Academy
    Hoover Institution
    Market Watch
    National Affairs
    National Review
    New York Observer
    The American Conservative 
    The Spectator
    Wall Street Journal

    Left Leaning

    Amnesty International 
    Anti Defamation League (ADL)
    Axios
    BBC
    Brookings Institution
    Business Insider
    Columbia Journalism Review
    FivethirtyEight
    Harvard Political Review
    Heavy
    Human Rights Watch
    Mountain Democrat
    NBC News
    New York Times (NYT)
    National Public Radio (NPR)
    PBS NewsHour
    Quartz
    Rational Wiki
    Sacramento Bee
    SF Gate
    The Verge
    Time Magazine
    USA Today
    Washington Post (WaPo)

    Strong Left Lean

    Atlantic 
    Common Dreams
    Jacobin
    Media Matters
    Mother Jones
    Rolling Stone 
    Salon
    Slate
    Vice News

    Pro Science Outlets

    Air and Space Mag
    American Journal of Archaeology
    American Psychological Association
    American Scientist
    Center for Disease Control (CDC)
    Cosmos Magazine
    Encyclopedia Britannica 
    HealthLine
    Johns Hopkins Medicine
    LiveScience
    MIT Technology Review
    NASA
    National Academy of Sciences
    National Geographic
    Nature
    Psychology Today
    RealClearScience
    ResearchGate
    Sage Journals
    Scientific American
    Smithsonian Magazine




    27 min
  • 6: Conor McGregor and Tom Brady
    Mat and Kasey discuss the main two fights from the McGregor card and what it means for the lightweight division and then look at legacies in the aftermath of the Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers NFC Championship clash 
    30 min
  • 5: The Nameless Pod - Introducing Mat and Kasey
    Mat and Kasey give a little background on themselves, their passions, and what lead to this venture in an intro episode that's late to drop but life is like that sometimes.... the last few weeks were historic and they had some things to say about it! 
    17 min
  • 3: The Nameless Pod - COVID Part 1
    Kasey and Mat dive into the coronavirus timeline and talk China, early assumptions, masks, the flu, and vaccines. Be sure to check out Covid Part 2 when they dive into the economic side of the issue and analyze the government response. 



    Articles and Research: 

    • Mask Effectiveness, the science 

    On mask efficacy, meta analysis from The Lancet.
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext

    A little Covid Q&A with UCSF
    https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

    Research on efficacy between 3 types of masks 
    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.20069567v2.full.pdf

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417132/


    • In reaction to masks…

    “Wear a mask, save your life”
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mask-1918-flu-pandemic-controversial/

    Overview of 1918 mask mandates
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-1918-americans-were-asked-to-wear-masks-some-refused--and-paid-the-price/2020/07/01/748d3fde-bbb5-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

    Assumptions changed.
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03141-3

    The confusion 
    https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/10/829890635/why-there-so-many-different-guidelines-for-face-masks-for-the-public

    • Covid vs The Flu

    Last ten years, flu data 
    https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

    Covid deaths international 
    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

    USA 
    https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

    Differences between the two 
    https://www.qps.com/2020/10/05/covid-19-versus-the-seasonal-flu-facts-and-figures/
    25 min

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Two life long friends discuss and share their perspectives on the issues of the day with an emphasis on politics, sports, and health/fitness.