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On the Media

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2011

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.
0:04.3	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:05.5	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:07.2	A philosopher once said, wherever there is number, there is beauty.
0:12.8	Oh, really?
0:13.9	Breaking news in the $50 billion scandal that has cost thousands of investors.
0:18.5	A $9 billion line of credit.
0:23.6	State budget shortfalls will exceed $100 billion. Unemployment is up.
0:24.6	Two full percentage points, 43% increase.
0:27.6	That's too many jobs.
0:28.6	New unemployment claims for benefits.
0:29.6	Jump to $573,000.
0:31.6	That is a 26 years.
0:33.6	Beauty, maybe not, but confusion, bewilderment,
0:36.6	maybe a little panic for sure.
0:39.9	These days, there are so many numbers hurtling toward us from our imploding economy
0:44.9	that it can be exceedingly difficult for reporters to contextualize them and for news consumers
0:50.4	to understand them.
0:52.6	Michael Blastland is a journalist and co-author of The Numbers Game,
0:56.3	the common sense guide to understanding numbers in the news, in politics and in life. Michael,
1:01.4	welcome to On the Media. Thanks very much. Can we start, please, with the $700 billion bailout?
1:08.6	I think the problem with that number and a lot of the numbers that are
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