Summary: <br> Peter and Mickey spend the hour with journalist and media scholar Brian Covert, <br> discussing the too-close relationship between the CIA and U.S. media, as well as other issues, <br> including the Obama Administration "pivot" toward Asia. <br> <br> <br> Brian Covert is an independent journalist, and a lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.<br> His chapter on the CIA and the media, "Played by the Mighty Wurlitzer," appears in the Censored 2017 yearbook.<br> <br>
