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A National Conversation
Listening in on the national conversation about race, two years ...
Listening in on the national conversation about race, two years after the launch of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Plus, the LA Times hires a reporter to cover #BlackTwitter, and the re-release of a satirical novel about bi-racial identity.
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Polls Are Stupid
Bob dissects the media's sloppy and disingenuous use of polls ...
Bob dissects the media's sloppy and disingenuous use of polls to fill air time and manufacture conflict. Plus: how the Dominican press is covering a a looming humanitarian crisis there; blocking ad-blockers; DuckDuckGo; and more.
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Greeks, Dingoes, and Robots
On the popular misconceptions surrounding the Greek debt crisis, women ...
On the popular misconceptions surrounding the Greek debt crisis, women whose lives were mistold by the media, and humor, both robotic and Soviet.
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Digital Dark Age
What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence ...
What if, either by the slow creep of technological obsolescence or sudden cosmic disaster, we were cut off from our electronic records?
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Foreign & Domestic
In the wake of another mass shooting tragedy, Brooke looks ...
In the wake of another mass shooting tragedy, Brooke looks back at a history of racially-motivated hate crimes. Plus, the strength and responsibility of comedy in the face of extremism, misconceptions about the future of the Affordable Care Act, and the climate change deniers' "I'm not a scientist" defense.
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Codes of Conduct
As videos of police violence continue to make headlines, a ...
As videos of police violence continue to make headlines, a guide to filming the police as a bystander. Plus, making sense of data breaches, a lesson in coding, and a trip into the future of storytelling, where virtual reality makes journalism a bodily experience.
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Checking The Books
Two newspapers' quests to count every person killed by police ...
Two newspapers' quests to count every person killed by police in 2015, how librarians shaped the original debate over the Patriot Act, and more.
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The Bill That Nobody Read
Congress is locked in a battle over the future of ...
Congress is locked in a battle over the future of the Patriot Act. This special hour of OTM reveals the origins of the act in a post-9/11 climate of fear... and considers whether it really is at the heart of the nation's struggle between security and privacy.
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If We Knew Then...
A surprisingly difficult -- and misleading -- question about the ...
A surprisingly difficult -- and misleading -- question about the Iraq War, the police bombing that no one remembers, and the struggle of ownership in the age of the "Internet of Things."
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Seymour Hersh, NYC Nail Salons, and Ebola-Free Liberia
Seymour Hersh talks about his article claiming that the White ...
Seymour Hersh talks about his article claiming that the White House version of how Osama Bin Laden was killed is a lie. Plus, how a New York City nail salon expose went viral, and Liberia is finally declared Ebola-free.
