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Brave Writer

144. (S8E28) Critically Thinking about the News Pt. 2 with Mosheh Oinounou

Brave Writer

Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley

Books, Arts, Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Education

4.8904 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Continuing our conversation with Mosheh Oinounou, a journalist who breaks down daily headlines of the biggest, most relevant news stories on his Instagram. We discuss how to come together despite our division, how to handle differences of opinion within our communities, and what to do about our political polarization.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back friends. I hope you enjoyed part one of my conversation with

0:14.7

Moch as much as I enjoyed having it. Part two is even better. There's more

0:20.1

content, more interesting facts and controversy that we explore together.

0:25.4

We even get into some of the current social issues that have been raising a lot of

0:30.0

eyebrows in the headlines in the last week. We are recording this of course in August, so you will recognize

0:36.5

some of those headlines for August of 2022. So let's get right back into it just to remind you.

0:43.0

Moch has an Instagram account where he breaks down the headlines every day.

0:47.0

Be sure to follow him, sign up for his newsletter,

0:50.0

and tune into his fabulous daily podcast.

0:53.8

It's a way to avoid all the visual graphic images

0:57.1

and to stay current while you're drinking tea during that 30 minutes

1:00.9

before you get the homeschool day going.

1:03.2

All right, let's get back to it.

1:07.8

Yeah, I think that's a great pivot actually,

1:09.8

so we are talking about parents and kids.

1:12.3

One of the things I proposed in my book

1:14.5

is this notion that when we are problem solving,

1:18.5

we actually want to include more opinions

1:21.2

and more perspectives, not fewer.

1:24.0

So for instance, I give the example of like being a sophomore in high school and your teacher's like,

1:28.0

let's talk about gun control.

1:30.0

And then she's like, let's put all the pro people on this side of the room and the

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