909:: Michael J. Brooks is the co-host for the five-time Podcast Award winging (2012-2015,2017 category — politics) The Majority Report. The Majority Report is broadcasted live Monday through Friday 12 PM Eastern. For his work in broadcast news media, Brooks appears regularly as a political and cultural analyst on outlets including Huffpost Live, SirusXM, AlJazeera English, CCTV, The Young Turks and France 24. His writing has appeared in Al Monitor, Al Jazeera, the Washington Post, the Baffler, and Democracy Journal. On top of his continuing work for the Majority Report, Brooks founded The Michael Brooks Show, an interactive & innovative new media collective that combines online community building among subscribers with political analysis & theory debate/discussion. Brooks has interviewed many leading journalists & political analysts in his media career, such as Mark Ames, Alyona Minkovski, Corey Pein, Trita Parsi, Steven A. Cook, and Julia Ioffe. Brooks has also been a guest on a number of politics, culture, and news/commentary shows like Zero Squared with Douglas Lain, Mixed Mental Arts, Pineal Express, and News from Nowhere.
966:. Michael J. Brooks is a prominent figure in independent US media. He is one of few media personalities who brings conversations with major political thinkers, writers and activists to a younger Youtube and podcasting audience. In addition to interviewing and maintaining ongoing conversations with these prominent voices (e.g. Adolph Reed Jr, Ronnie Kasrils, Bhaskar Sunkara) his show The Michael Brooks Show is one of few outlets in the United States to substantively engage with international news and history, which is not surprising in light of Brooks' history of publication in important journalistic outlets across the world (Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, Huffington Post, etc). This is someone with a unique perspective, substantial reach and growing popularity, and so meets Knowledge's standards for inclusion.
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594:. Michael J. Brooks is a noted political commentator and author. He has his own program with over 1,000 subscribers and has been the co-host of The Majority Report for 5 years, a show with over 100 million views. He has also appeared on the Young Turks. He is a co-author of Buddha's Playbook and has written outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Baffler, and Open Democracy.
264:. Michael Brooks is a prominent figure in independent media. He is a daily contributor on the Majority Report, which is a YouTube show with over 220,000 subscribers. His writing has been featured in prominent outlets, such as The Baffler, Jacobin, and Al Jazeera. I struggle to understand why it’s not seen as worthwhile to document independent media figures.
366:. I do not understand why this page should be deleted. It meets all notable standards, sources are listed, WP:GNG guidelines are met. This person is important enough to have an own wikipedia entry as he hosts his own youtube-show and is regular guest on other liveshows like Majority Report or the Young Turks (which has 7 Billion views). -
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