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#14 – Talking Heads (AND NOW FOR A WORD, THE ILLUSION OF TRUTH)
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It's our long-discussed episode on the media in Babylon 5 in which we take on two of the show's most important episodes about journalism, propaganda, and the construction of political reality: “And Now for a Word” and “The Illusion of Truth.”
The conversation looks at how deeply news media was baked into JMS’s original conception of Babylon 5, from ISN as a central narrative device to the show’s use of documentary language, commercial breaks, and authoritative TV-news aesthetics. Josh and John discuss why ISN’s existence makes sense in-universe, how media infrastructure…
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