Coverage Of The Boston Bombing, Undercover Reporting, and MORE

On the Media

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	This was a week chock full of news, but it wasn't the news media's finest hour.
0:08.8	They just kept showing the same clips over and over again, and it was always the most horrifying clip.
0:14.7	We don't have people who work at Runner's World come here because they didn't get a job as a war correspondent. So they came to Runners World.
0:22.5	We have reports that they have explosives here in the scene.
0:25.6	There are explosives here in the scene.
0:28.5	Within the first 24 hours, people are still.
0:31.4	And if we started talking only about other things, people would have gone looking for it.
0:41.3	When they run out of data, they just fill it with blather. At the end of the day, someone is going to be right
0:44.3	because every news organization is reporting something different.
0:48.3	Pick your conclusion.
0:50.3	There really is a thrill to being the first,
0:53.3	or being as close to the first as possible to report a story.
0:57.4	More coming up.
0:59.7	Hi, podcast listeners. This is a free service of WNYC Radio.
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1:10.0	You can support this podcast by making a donation at WNYC.org.
1:16.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:23.0	Okay, I want this area quite enough. It's the crime scene. Let's get it secure, please.
1:29.0	It's impossible to keep up with the news this week, especially in a pre-recorded show.
1:34.8	As I read this, it's closing in on Friday evening.
1:37.7	At 4 a.m. this morning, I was following on the media's Twitter stream manned by producer Alex Goldman,
1:45.1	who was tweeting the Boston Police Department scanner.
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