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No Agenda is a podcasting LLC whose goal is to deconstruct the news media to reveal slanted stories and the reasoning for slanted or misleading reporting. The purpose is not to critique or discredit news reports but, through media deconstruction, to find the actual underlying story to give the audience a realistic understanding of current affairs and events and provide a normalized, objective understanding of them.

No Agenda has no political motivations and does no original reporting but does do original research on stories as needed. On occasion, the show will read and disseminate what it calls “boots on the ground” reporting, which replaces “letters to the editor” and is used as background information. In some cases, outsiders will be contacted to clarify a fact to improve analysis. These “boots on the ground” reports are provided by the audience of producers who voluntarily contribute these messages to the show.

In the process of deconstruction, deep research into a topic will often be done using publicly-available but often obscure media reports. No Agenda also digs into the backgrounds of individuals and non-governmental organizations. The show will often use elements of humor, which may include ridicule, to manage a three-hour, twice weekly audience engagement.

The first No Agenda Show was aired via the Internet on Oct. 26, 2007. Its sole support comes from direct donations from the audience, composed of individuals called “producers”, as they are responsible for the show’s production and credited as such.

To protect the viability of No Agenda LLC and shield it from political attack or vandalism, the show established its own distribution network and avoids third-party entanglements to negate or minimize the potential for show discontinuance or political “take-downs.”

No Agenda has adopted an open-source approach to its content and trademarked name allowing third parties to leverage the show to produce related-products such as branded t-shirts and mugs. This also means that anyone can post the final produced show on their own site(s).

John's Notes

Listening Stats

Start Date
2016ish
Still Listening?
Yes

Thoughts on the Show

Hosts: Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak
It took me longer than I care to admit to appreciate, know, and understand the format of the show. They have over 1800 episodes of about 3 hours each, twice a week for almost 20 years. I've listened to them all, I'm pretty sure, at least retroactively to the low one or two hundreds maybe.

They have historically maintained fair unbias towards deconstruction, and maintain the creative and innovative ideas of what's going on behind the curtain. Controlled opposition is always a possibility in any podcast, or medium for that matter, and they will forever be a hard one to pin down.

They maintain registered Independents, and have differing world views-ish. Adam Curry has started drinking kool-aid and JCD remains more neutral.

Miscellaneous

I've followed Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak separately for much longer. Adam Curry from Daily Source Code and John C. Dvorak from This Week in Tech (TWiT) and PCMag.