It's Not You, It's The Media! unpacks the ways that the media manipulates narratives and makes you question your reality. You're being gaslighted. Hosts Bhakti Shringarpure, Suchitra Vijayan & Madhuri Sastry eviscerate the propaganda, set the record straight, and offer moral clarity.
It's Not You, It's The Media
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It's Not You, It's The Media! unpacks the ways that the media manipulates narratives and makes you question your reality. You're being gaslighted. Hosts Bhakti Shringarpure, Suchitra Vijayan & Madhuri Sastry eviscerate the propaganda, set the record straight, and offer moral clarity.
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May 17, 2026
Covering Sudan/Covering Up Sudan
<p>Featuring journalists Ism’ail Kushkush and Raghdan Orsud. Even as Sudan enters the 4th year of devastating war, media coverage remains abysmal. Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure speak to two Sudanese journalists about why the deadliest conflict in the world has become the the casualty of today’s media attention economy.</p><p>Isma’il Kushkush is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, Guernica, Nieman Reports, Columbia Journalism Review, Smithsonian, The Nation, the Associated Press and others. He was based in Khartoum, Sudan, for eight years, and has been acting bureau chief for the New York Times in East Africa. He was a Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and an Ida B. Wells Fellowship recipient with Type Investigations.</p><p>Raghdan Orsud is a digital ecosystems and media development specialist with 15+ years working at the intersection of technology, information integrity, and development programming. She’s built misinformation monitoring systems, designed digital initiatives for public-interest media, and advised organizations operating in fragile and conflict-affected contexts. As Co-founder of Beam Reports, she’s now channeling that expertise into building smarter tools for stronger information ecosystems.</p><p>Listen to previous episodes of It’s Not You, It’s The Media here: <u><a href="https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/s/its-not-you-its-the-media" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.radicalbookscollective.com/s/its-not-you-its-the-media</a></u></p><p>Watch previous episodes of It’s Not You, It’s The Media here: <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstXMEF0r05bhdfv7yCt5V2KXTdK4cO5F" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstXMEF0r05bhdfv7yCt5V2KXTdK4cO5F</a></u></p><p></p><p class="ql-align-center"></p>
May 7, 2026
The October 7th Narrative and the Unmasking of Mainstream Media
<p>Madhuri Sastry and Bhakti Shringarpure speaking with guest Robin Andersen, author of <strong>T</strong>he Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. (OR Books, 2025). They discuss why the media framing of October 7th narrative became pivotal to manufacture consent for the genocide in Gaza. Andersen explains that the New York Times, in particular, played an outsize role in framing this October 7th origin story. However, Andersen argues that this has led to the downfall of establishment media since popularity of Israel is at an all time low in the US. They also discuss the current media ecosystem, the need to dismantle existing ways in which journalism is practiced. </p><p>Buy the book here: <a href="https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-complicit-lens/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://orbooks.com/catalog/the-complicit-lens/</a></p><p>“Gaming the Iran war and the Gaza Genocide Syndrome” by Robin Andersen <u><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/gaming-the-iran-war-and-the-gaza-genocide-syndrome/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/gaming-the-iran-war-and-the-gaza-genocide-syndrome/</a></u></p><p></p>
April 21, 2026
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