Seven of those 15 agencies received a failing grade. Nobody got an A. They struggled. They really did.

Yep, the government is a lousy student when it comes to responding to freedom of information requests.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. It's been 50 years since the Supreme Court's decision on New York Times v. Sullivan that forever changed the practice of journalism.

You have this very strong ruling that says, listen, there is a place in America for public dissent against public officials.

They're not going to be able to use these libel and slander laws as offensive weapons to chill speech.

Trigger warnings, invented to warn readers of potentially traumatic content, are now running amok.

I started to explore this after a woman on an online forum I belong to,

requested that anything related to pregnancy or birth announcements be able to with a trigger warning.

On behalf of Fertile Women.

There's more coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. What became of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

Something happened to this Triple Seven's ability to report to the ground.

Was that because of a massive electrical failure?

Was the crew incapacitated because of a lack of oxygen?

Or did the crew actually turn off equipment?

Every lead that comes up seems to evaporate.

From terrorism to catastrophic structural failure to alien tractor beams,

the theories on a vanishing jetliner have come fast and furious. And one after another,

they have themselves disappeared into nothingness. The Iranians with the stolen passports

weren't terrorists, but young men seeking political asylum in Europe. The Iranians with the stolen passports weren't terrorists, but young men seeking

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