The video discusses the role of the news media in society and how it is not truly serving its ostensible purpose of providing accurate information and holding power accountable. The video highlights the propaganda model explained by Noam Chomsky, which shows how media ownership, advertising, reliance on official sources, flak, common enemies, and news editors all contribute to filtering news for conformity. The media also sets the agenda, selects topics, emphasizes certain issues, frames debates, filters information, and bounds discussion within certain limits to shape public opinion.

The video discusses the concept of mind control and how propaganda and manipulation are used to control the masses. It focuses on the work of the Tavistock Institute and Edward Bernays, who brought Freud’s techniques to America and used them to manipulate public opinion and behavior. This episode also gets into techniques used to control the public mind.