They Stand Corrected Josh Levs
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Award-winning broadcaster, author, speaker, consultant, activist -- and now, podcast host
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Episode 10: Your Questions Answered: Hamas Numbers, ‘Clear’ Science, Dads’ Heart Health
To mark the tenth episode, Josh answers your questions and shares your comments. First, a viral story that the media got wrong, embarrassing a man who was unfairly sent to jail. Then, the topic of your biggest question of all: casualty figures from Gaza. Josh explains that even after the number of women and children allegedly killed dropped dramatically, media are still trusting Hamas -- and trying to cover up the drop.
Then, a study that claims “the science is clear” -- even though it isn’t. Josh explains the problems with that term, and why this report could make it harder for people to believe news about climate change and concussions among football players. You’ll hear from NFL icon Ronnie Lott.
And finally, do dads have worse heart health but also live longer lives? Josh breaks down a new study, just in time for Father’s Day. -
Episode 9: Presidential Debates: The Secret Rules that Silence the Truth
The first debate between President Biden and former president Trump is ostensibly going to take place June 27 -- before Trump is sentenced on 34 counts. But even if the debate goes ahead, it’s crucial to know this: These events are a disaster for truth. Journalists serve as moderators even though journalism is precluded. Today, times when hosts have tried to fact check candidates during debates and why it doesn’t work. Josh explains how to fix this -- and why news agencies should stop the pretense. Plus, he explains why these debates reflect a problem with the way we’re raising children in America.
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Episode 8: All the Queen’s Lies, Part II
A terrorist on the FBI Most Wanted list is living freely as a popular celebrity in Jordan, which is refusing to extradite her despite an extradition treaty with the United States. Another of her American victims died last year. Also, most likely the fastest ever killing of a large number of Palestinians, including terrorists, was carried out by Jordan, not Israel. And the reason the West Bank has its name is that Jordan occupied it. All this, and so much more, was left out of a major news network’s disastrous “interview” with Queen Rania.
Today, in Part II of Josh’s breakdown of this hypocritical “liefest,” the ways that journalists too often deprive you of not only facts, but also context. Plus, why an expression of opinion can be a crucial jumping off point to explore both. And what Hillary Clinton got right on The View. -
Episode 7: All the Queen’s Lies, Part I
When a listener asked Josh to look into Joy Reid’s interview with Queen Rania of Jordan on MSNBC, he discovered the “Shawshank Redemption” of fact checking.
Today, in Part I of a two-parter, how this interview shows the ways that blatant lies and hypocrisy are so prevalent in mainstream media, particularly when it comes to anything involving Israel. Hear about slain U.S. soldiers, ignored Israeli rape victims, backward narratives, erasure of history, and how the queen is using her position to gaslight the world. Also, how governments really responded to the October 7 massacres, support for “honor killings” in Jordan, and the media’s efforts to fuel a “big lie” on the left. -
Episode 6: Pulitizers & The Double Whammy
A quick update episode while Josh prepares a big two-parter to begin next week. In this update, he shares exciting news about the podcast being in Newsweek thanks to a column inspired by a listener.
Josh explains that while the media is looking for who, or what, to blame for the dangerous, violent protests on college campuses, they should “look in the freaking mirror.” The timing is especially important because the Pulitzer Prizes were announced, including for some news agencies whose profound journalistic failures are radicalizing people against the Jewish state.
Also, the “double whammy” -- how you are being mistreated in two ways when the media feeds you lies. -
Episode 5: The ‘Crying Wolf’ Myth
Inside news organizations, there is widespread belief in a false, negative stereotype. It's a myth strategically designed to skew their coverage against Israel and make them impervious to legitimate complaints of antisemitism. On this episode, Josh shows how the media pushes the “Jews cry wolf” myth, and two key tactics to watch out for.
We’ll learn how the media turns to the straw man fallacy, and tried to use it against Bill Maher in a question that “caved in on itself.” Also how the media could not have been any more wrong about Emma Watson. And a little wisdom from Jordan Peele.
Customer Reviews
A real Journalist
It’s refreshing to hear perspectives from a journalist that cut his teeth on CNN and NPR, regarding the hypocrisy of the major news outlets. It takes a lot to go against the grain, and Josh Levs is doing it.
Highly recommend: The facts of newsroom rules and biases
It is great to have Josh, with his background as a CNN anchor, share what reporters were told to say (or not to say) about Israel and how those rules were different from those of every other country in the world. For example, how CNN reporters were told to falsely call Gaza “the occupied territory” even though Israel pulled out of Gaza in 1990s. It didn’t even occur to CNN reporters to say the US was occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, which it did for 20 years! Just one example of the hypocrisies he shares in this podcast.
Josh is a truth teller
I can wait to listen to all the episodes. Josh knows this content inside and out. He is a trusted news source for both Israel other topics.