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🗓️ 19 September 2013

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Earlier this month, OTM producer Sarah Abdurrahman, her family, and her friends were detained for hours by US Customs and Border Protection on their way home from Canada. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Be wary about names that come out because often law enforcement officials are wrong.
0:06.4	That's one thing.
0:07.6	I think another thing is there's almost never a second gunman.
0:11.0	Advice on how to consume news after a gunman strikes.
0:15.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:18.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:19.0	Also on this week's show, don't think that just because
0:22.5	you're a law-abiding American citizen, you can't be detained and harassed at the border.
0:27.5	I was like, he's my husband. You need to tell me where he is going. We waited here, six hours.
0:32.4	Don't treat us like we're criminals. Don't treat us like we've done something wrong.
0:35.7	And an app called Ghetto Tracker makes decisions about which neighborhoods are, quote, bad.
0:40.8	But at least it's transparent about it.
0:43.2	Whereas we already have tools that are doing the same thing, but are using algorithms to do it.
0:49.4	And no one is talking about those.
0:51.5	There's more OTP coming up after this.
0:59.2	Thank you. is talking about those. There's more OTP coming up after this. Hi, podcast listeners.
1:00.8	This is a free service of WNYC radio.
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1:09.0	You can support this podcast by making a donation at WNYC.org.
1:17.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:21.1	Bob Garfield is away this week.
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