You go down a dangerous road when you rely on just partisans or just a single source to tell a story.

It's an old journalism story. Garbage in, guess what's going to come out?

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

And I'm Bob Garfield. Clarence Thomas

has always been thought of as an enigma. In fact, a new book all about him begins with a well-known

epigraph. I'm an invisible man and everybody sees everything and anything but me. Corrie Robin

writes that like Ellison's invisible man,

Thomas isn't seen, but that's not because he's hiding.

The real enigma is not Thomas's beliefs,

but the fact that white people seem incapable of seeing those beliefs.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

This week on Capitol Hill, another batch of Trump administration witnesses corroborating

the president's walk across what might possibly finally be a bridge too far.

The ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, now tells lawmakers that the Trump

administration held up military aid as it pushed Ukraine's government

to investigate Democrats, including the Biden family. Meanwhile, Trump allies continued to make

the congressional inquiry not about Trump's abuse of power, but about supposed corruption by

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

What you have now is you have the beginnings and the building of evidence,

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