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On the Media

Breaking News Consumers Handbook, Slow TV, and more

On the Media

WNYC Studios

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🗓️ 1 August 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0

First off, they should be wary about names that come out. Often the law enforcement officials are wrong.

0:06.5

Another thing is there's almost never a second gunman.

0:09.6

Advice on how to consume news after a mass shooting. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:16.5

I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield. Sitting at front of the flickering tube with your remote is so yesterday.

0:23.6

Now there are myriad ways to get your fix.

0:26.6

Binge viewing on Netflix, original programming on Prime, Chromecast.

0:33.6

The number of developments in the last year, it's just astonishing.

0:39.0

In Norway, they binge a bit differently.

0:41.8

Picture a journey by boat every uneventful second live.

0:47.5

134 hours, 42 minutes and 45 seconds.

0:51.9

And it sounds crazy, but people just got completely addicted to it.

0:55.8

There's more coming up after this.

1:00.2

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.

1:04.6

I'm Bob Garfield.

1:05.8

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:07.4

Every time news breaks about a mass shooting,

1:10.4

we see a flurry of downloads of a one-page

1:13.1

postable sheet, we wrote, called the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook. It happened in May of this year

1:19.3

after the shootings near the campus of the University of Santa Barbara, and then again in early

1:24.2

June after another campus shooting in Seattle, and two weeks later, after a high school shooting in Oregon.

1:31.1

And even, weirdly, after that Malaysian passenger jet was downed in Ukraine.

1:36.4

Why? Because the news after a mass death is invariably wrong in key respects.

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