An asteroid miss and the WaPo opinion shift
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Kai has been tracking news about a giant asteroid heading toward Earth. NASA says we’re safe, for now! But first, the hosts discuss troubling trends in the news business and a shift in who gets to exert control over media narratives. And, we’re keeping a close eye on growing fears over possible layoffs.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “US Workers Cite Growing Layoff Fear in Philadelphia Fed Survey” from Bloomberg
- “White House takes control of press pool that covers Trump” by BBC
- “Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’” by The Guardian
- “Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them” from Wired
- “NASA Gives ‘All Clear’ for Asteroid That Seemed to Threaten Earth” by The New York Times
Got a question or comment for the hosts? Email makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:06.7 | Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rizzdahl. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:09.6 | Where we make today makes sense. |
| 0:11.2 | 26 February today, it's a Wednesday. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello, I am Marie McRais. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm in for Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:19.4 | Thanks everyone for joining us. |
| 0:21.1 | It's a news and smiles kind of day. |
| 0:23.6 | So we can get right into it. |
| 0:25.6 | And I was curious, is Kimberly, she's out all week, right? |
| 0:28.7 | She's out, Kimberlying. |
| 0:29.9 | Yeah, I don't know what she's doing. |
| 0:31.1 | I don't know what she's doing. |
| 0:32.5 | She's back, I think she's back next week, but I'm sure. |
| 0:34.9 | Nice, nice. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, we miss you Kimberly we do indeed um all right so |
| 0:40.1 | should we talk about the news what do you want to go first I will go first because I think frankly |
| 0:44.1 | yours is the more conversation worthy topic I just want to point out you know lots of uncertainty |
| 0:48.5 | in this economy given gesturing wildly here everything but there's a survey out from the Federal Reserve Bank |
| 0:55.3 | of Philadelphia, the headline of which is U.S. workers cite growing layoff fear in Philadelphia |
| 1:01.0 | Fed survey. Now, that growing layoff here has been growing over six months, so it's not all |
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