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How the omnipresent narrative of racial disparities in mortality outcomes, while often true, are often misapplied by NPR and others to misleading and alienating effect.
Mike Pesa is out with a new sub stack post that criticizes NPR, and other media outlets on their reporting of Mortality Figures. Curious to see everyone's opinion.
17:10 UTC
Hobey Ford, puppeteer, out of nowhere with the hard-hitting closer!
16:56 UTC
Is it now mandatory for almost all NPR reporters to use the words "Yeah, so..." to lead off their reporting after being introduced by a host?
Drives me nuts. <curmudgeon shakes fist at sky>
16:33 UTC
I was not expecting to hear System of a Down on NPR, but the Serj Tankian interview this morning was quite informative.
12:32 UTC
The history of hip-hop, told through bling
21:04 UTC
Who do you want to see on Wait Wait?
04:05 UTC
Are the jokes in Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me scripted?
I am only asking because sometimes they are too perfect, like u would have to be an amazing comedian to come up with some of that stuff on the spot and I know not everyone on the panel is a comedian
19:01 UTC
The Met Gala has fueled backlash against stars who are silent about the Gaza conflict
Following on from the discussion here this past week.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/11/1250506915/met-gala-block-israel
21:09 UTC
important undisclosed info on latest Trump's Trials guest
Latest ep of Trump's Trials had on law professor Jed Shugerman, who spent the whole time casting doubt on the prosecution's case. Fine, he's a law professor, he surely knows more than I do on this matter.
However. This guy has made regular appearances at Federalist Society events, with increasing frequency in the past few years, and has won at least one Federalist Society award. Given that the Federalist Society is functionally the judicial arm of the Republican party, and the close ties between Trump and Fed Soc (he essentially made all his judicial appointments off lists they created), this seems like important context.
It's not wrong for NPR to have on guests with political leanings. It does seem irresponsible, however, to fail to disclose this sort of affiliation.
19:00 UTC
Looking for a show
As it states. I heard the beginning of a show this morning -maybe on All Things Considered - that shared audio recordings of a now homeless palestinian man in Rafah where he was reporting on the lives of regular citizens living under the constant and terrifying buzz of drones. There was also another segment of a college English lecturer with children who could not escape Rafah and was boiling grass at one point to eat.
I can't find this story anywhere on the NPR website (this happens to me all the time. Is their search function terrible?), but would like to finish out the story. Thanks in advance for any direction!
03:19 UTC