After the Storm
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For Puerto Rico, the destruction caused by Hurricane Maria was just the beginning. |
| 0:07.0 | Damn it, this is not a good news story. |
| 0:10.0 | This is a people-are-dying story. |
| 0:12.0 | This is a life-or-death story. |
| 0:14.0 | I think the American public, for the first time ever, is seeing Puerto Rico for what it is. |
| 0:19.0 | They had a lot of trees, a lot of palms. |
| 0:22.6 | As you can see now, it's almost naked. |
| 0:25.1 | We can make jokes about it because you're not suffering the way we are suffering, man. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm not that sure if what we are seeing in many people in Puerto Rico is resilience or resignation. |
| 0:37.8 | A resilience has political potential. |
| 0:41.8 | Resignation has no political potential. |
| 0:44.8 | I want to retain hope that this is going to impact those young people |
| 0:49.8 | and that they are going to live differently |
| 0:52.7 | and create something different for us here. |
| 0:55.5 | It's all coming up after this. |
| 1:10.9 | And I'm Brooke Gladstone in New York. |
| 1:12.0 | This is on the media. |
| 1:13.5 | I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 1:14.8 | And I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 1:16.8 | And I'm Alana Casanova Burgess. |
| 1:23.9 | Alana is a producer here, and she just got back from a month-long reporting trip to Puerto Rico for WNYC. |
| 1:30.3 | That story you may not quite realize, given the mainland's scandal-clogged news cycles, |
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