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🗓️ 2 June 2010

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner discuss the pop star M.I.A's beef with The New York Times, the new documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop and a Wired article that asks whether the Internet has uncivilized our brains.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.4	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible,
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0:23.2	slash culturefest.
0:25.8	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest Trufflefries edition.
0:30.2	This is also the daily podcast from Slate.com for Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
0:35.3	On today's program, the pop star MIA, exit through the gift shop, the new documentary
0:40.1	about by Banksy, and the Internet, is it uncivilizing our brains?
0:45.7	Joining me as late Deputy Editor Julia Turner.
0:47.7	Hello, Julia.
0:48.5	Hi, Steve.
0:49.1	And our film critic, Dana Stevens.
0:50.3	Hey, Dana.
0:50.9	Hey, Steve.
0:51.9	Why don't we, well, let, as quick background, this past Sunday,
0:56.0	Lynn Hirshberg, veteran celebrity profile for the New York Times profile of the pop star, MIA,
1:02.7	who has a controversial new video and an album coming out. In Hersberg's portrayal, Julia, correct me if I'm
1:09.4	wrong, MIA comes off as a woman trapped by a need to make sort of politically charged pseudo-important statements, but who comes off in the article is little more than an airhead and a hypocrite. And MIA has responded to this quite angrily and quite publicly by tweeting, among other things, by tweeting Lynn Hirshberg's phone number as if it were her own,
1:28.2	MIA's own, of course, so 100,000 people immediately start calling Lynn Hirschberg at all hours of the night.
1:35.2	And MIA further said that she was going to put unedited audio clips of the actual interviews, raw audio,
1:43.3	of the actual interviews that Hirshberg conducted on the
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