Summary of Sarah Kendzior's They Knew

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 A radio host named Norman Baker claimed that evil cabals ruled the US, and that he could expose them. He kept on broadcasting, even after he was arrested for running a criminal radio station.
#2 A radio host named Norman Baker claimed that he could cure cancer, and made a lot of money doing so. He was eventually shut down, but not before he had claimed that the American Medical Association had sent assassins to kill him.
#3 In 2018, I warned that Donald Trump would win the presidential election.
#4 After Trump won the 2016 election, I warned that he would win again in 2018.

Sujets

• Media Studies
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 octobre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350031164
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Sarah Kendzior's They Knew
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

A radio host named Norman Baker claimed that evil cabals ruled the US, and that he could expose them. He kept on broadcasting, even after he was arrested for running a criminal radio station.

#2

A radio host named Norman Baker claimed that he could cure cancer, and made a lot of money doing so. He was eventually shut down, but not before he had claimed that the American Medical Association had sent assassins to kill him.

#3

in 2018, I warned that Donald Trump would win the presidential election.

#4

After Trump won the 2016 election, I warned that he would win again in 2018.

#5

America is a ghost story. And we are the ghosts.

#6

Hope is a lie.

#7

America is a ghost story, and we are the ghosts.

#8

The bald eagle is America’s national symbol, but it was nearly extinct in the 1980s. By 2007, it was free and safe, and I had moved to Missouri to see them.

#9

I moved to Missouri in 2007 to see the bald eagle, but I ended up seeing the American economy instead.

#10

I went to see the bald eagle in Missouri, but I ended up seeing the American economy instead.

#11

It’s not just that white conservative America is hopelessly backwards and cruel, but that it has lost its faith in the very idea of America. It no longer sees itself as an American, it sees itself as an Arkansan. -> I did not understand this type of collective grief until I was older. In the 1990s, I joked that O. J. Simpson’s white Bronco chase was my generation’s where were you when moment, only for the Twin Towers to fall and then the global economy and then American democracy.

#12

In 2021, the lies of Big Pharma and government officials finally wore thin on Missourians, who had been misled and conned too many times.

#13

Conspiracy theorists aren’t crazy, they’re just looking for answers.

#14

America is a hopelessly backwards, cruel place.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

America is a hopelessly backwards, cruel place.

#2

We were traveling a road with no milestones. Simple comforts and escapes, traditions that tied us to childhood memories and gave us a sense of continuity in the despair, had vanished. The only national pastime in 2020 was politics.

#3

America is a backwards, cruel place.

#4

The coronavirus killed tens of thousands of Americans, but the government refused to acknowledge it was a crisis until it was too late, and then they tried to cover it up.

#5

By 2020, Americans could no longer count on accurate information from the Centers for Disease Control, which the Trump administration had defunded and banned from using phrases like evidence-based or science-based in 2017.