After An Earthquake, Body Cams, and Veep

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🗓️ 8 May 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What the media get wrong about earthquakes, surveillance the public loves and hates, and the creator of HBO's Veep.

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0:00.0	People just try to box up a bunch of stuff.
0:03.5	They just send it.
0:04.5	Oh, here are a bunch of wool blankets, Haiti.
0:06.4	Here's a bunch of hand sanitizer in Nepal.
0:08.4	Good luck.
0:09.1	We're all rooting for you.
0:10.3	The coverage of natural disasters spurs us to action, but maybe not the helpful kind.
0:16.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:18.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:20.0	And I'm Bob Garfield. Also, how to cover
0:22.6	ridiculous stories, like that one about the government takeover of Texas. These are kind of like
0:29.4	the stories you'll hear at a backyard party. Two guys standing by the fence with beers in their
0:35.2	hands, one guy telling the other, the true lowdown on what's about to happen.
0:39.7	Plus, the creator of Veep
0:41.3	on why Washington, D.C., makes great TV.
0:45.0	In the news and in current affairs,
0:46.8	there is a vacuum because politics isn't progressing.
0:50.3	And in that vacuum,
0:51.4	come idiots like me and turn it into entertainment.
0:55.0	There's more coming up. Stay with us.
1:01.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.
1:07.2	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. It's been two weeks since that horrific earthquake in Nepal. The fact is the
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