Covering 2016 As A Muslim
The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR
4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Quick plug, don't forget to take the NPR1 app with you on your holiday travels. |
| 0:03.8 | And keep up with the best from public radio and beyond, including all your favorite podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | One of those podcasts should be, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. It is the NPR News Quiz. |
| 0:13.2 | Host Peter Sagole and panelists like Alonzo Bowden, PJ O'Rourke, and Paula Poundstone say things |
| 0:19.1 | on the radio that most people just shout at the radio. You can find, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me on the |
| 0:24.1 | NPR1 app and at npr.org slash podcast. Alright, here's the show. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey y'all, it's the NPR Politics Podcast and we're here today with a different kind of episode. |
| 0:37.2 | We're going to talk with my friend and colleague Osmaholid. She's a member of the pod squad |
| 0:41.3 | and she's going to talk today about what it was like to cover the campaign and the election |
| 0:45.3 | of Donald Trump as a Muslim female reporter. I'm Sam Sanders. I'm Asma Khalid. I covered |
| 0:50.8 | demographics in 2016. I'm Sarah McCammon. I covered Republicans and Donald Trump. |
| 0:55.3 | And I'm Ron Elving, Editor Correspondent. So we will get to all the weeks big news and politics |
| 1:01.5 | and our roundup, which will be out tomorrow evening, Thursday evening. And though this week got a |
| 1:06.8 | bit busy, we're still trying to bring you one episode earlier each week too, usually on Mondays |
| 1:11.7 | or Tuesdays. But for those that didn't hear our latest episode, me and Osmah should say at the |
| 1:17.6 | outset, and sorry if this is your first time hearing it. So long. Goodbye. Well, not yet. |
| 1:24.0 | Not yet. We'll be here through the inauguration. But I am headed to Boston where I'll be reporting |
| 1:30.2 | on Biz and Technology for WBUR. But I am around through the inauguration. I'll still be at NPR, |
| 1:36.5 | post inauguration, but I will be working with our crack producer Brent Bachman to make some new |
| 1:42.9 | podcast stuff for NPR. And for you guys, it'll be non-political, but it'll be fun. |
| 1:48.0 | More good stuff from Sam Sanders. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. For sure. |
| 1:51.6 | You know, and so before we leave, we're going to talk about what it was like for you, Osmah, |
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