2x Peabody-nominated podcast by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 8: The News, exploring America's journalism and information crisis, w/ Chenjerai Kumanyika.
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About 6 months ago, I went looking for resources to better understand the history of racism.
While that initial query was rooted in the history of racism…I found that & then some here on @SceneOnRadio!
In the past 4-6 months, I’ve binged all 8 seasons.
You should, too!
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Finally finished listening to 'The News' @SceneOnRadio
All I can say is: yet another brilliant season exploring another absolutely crucial and urgent topic AND offering ideas HOW TO CHANGE our broken systems.
Big thank u to the whole team!
If we wanted a news media system that would actually serve people, communities and democracy, what might that look like?
Thoughts and concrete ideas in the conclusion of our 8th season, The News. With @catchatweetdown, @VWPickard, Les High of @BeltBorder.
In our feed!
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As always, this season of @SceneOnRadio is a great one. Anyone interested in (perceived) bias in journalism and the loss of local news should give it a listen.
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We've spent more than a decade testing one answer to this in New Jersey. NJ News Commons is a network of local outlets that share training, coaching and content instead of competing for scraps alone.
If we wanted a news media system that would actually serve people, communities and democracy, what might that look like?
Thoughts and concrete ideas in the conclusion of our 8th season, The News. With @catchatweetdown, @VWPickard, Les High of @BeltBorder.
In our feed!
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NYT headlines really have been atrocious during the Trump 2.0 era and @Sulliview nails it here: margaretsullivan.substack.co…
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A lack of local journalism is fueling mistrust in the news. What can we do about it?
This week, we partner with the podcast @SceneOnRadio for their latest season: The News. revealnews.org/podcast/ameri…
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When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.
propublica.org/article/trump…
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Important discussion abt how we might learn to do this from @SceneOnRadio
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… – at Manhattan, NY
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It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about their violent culture, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities.
Did I do it right?
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Today in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped slavery and started his pursuit for equality for all. #Liberation
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A solar take-off is on its way to being a pan-African story 🌍☀️
In the past 12 months, 20 countries across the continent have imported a record number of solar panels from China 📈 What’s more? Algeria recorded a huge 33-FOLD increase in its imports 🇩🇿
ember-energy.org/latest-insi…
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Trump is more or less right that many people seem to want a dictator. They're his people.
As many as 3 or 4 in 10 Republicans endorse what is effectively unchecked power for Trump.
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BREAKING: A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods
news.sky.com/story/gaza-late…
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Of the people who have starved to death in Gaza since the beginning of the war, 80 percent are children, @UNICEF reports: unicef.org/press-releases/st… This is an episode that shames the world, and the US is particularly complicit.
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The average S&P 500 CEO made an eye-popping 285x more than their median worker did, the worst being Starbucks, whose CEO received $97,813,843 in total compensation last year, or 6,666x more than Starbucks’ median employee. truthout.org/articles/afl-ci…
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As others have been warning: if undocumented immigrants are denied due process, it doesn’t matter if you are a citizen.
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, or a veteran, or that I identified who I was. They ignored everything I said, and they just they broke my window and they dragged me out. I let them know that I was a veteran and I wasn't doing anything wrong, that I'm just trying to get to work
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NEW: the Trump admin has moved to terminate TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua, covering over 50,000 people
Both of these designations date back to 1999, meaning Trump wants to strip legal status from people who have had a background check every 18 months for the last 26 years.
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Responsibility for climate breakdown (left) and vulnerability to climate breakdown (right).
Who is driving climate breakdown? Buckle up for some striking data... 🧵
1. First, global North countries are responsible for 86% of cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary.
China is responsible for 1%. The rest of the South and peripheral Europe is responsible for 13%.
These results arise from taking the safe carbon budget and dividing into national "fair shares" on a per-capita basis, and then assessing national emissions against national fair-shares.
