Transcript: America This Week, Episode 57, "Russell Brand's Trial by Media"

Walter and Matt on the insta-punishment system unveiled in the Russell Brand case, Britain's increasing role as a testing ground for speech-suppression techques, and Alexander Pushkin's "The Shot."

Matt Taibbi

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Walter Kirn

Sep 26, 2023

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Lots to discuss this week, as Walter and I took on the Russell Brand debacle, an unsettling investigation into a DoD social media contract, and Alexander Pushkin’s “The Shot”:

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