Does media have an economics problem? (with Charles Mudede)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this week, we examined whether journalists live up to their responsibility to discuss economic issues fairly and intelligently. Here, we continue that conversation with Charles Mudede, a local economics reporter here in Seattle. Charles joins Paul to examine the ways that media has let economics down, as well as the deep economic implications of films like Alien and Pretty in Pink. Charles Mudede writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger, Seattle’s alternative biweekly newspaper. He is also a filmmaker. Twitter: @mudede Further reading: A Note on the Movie ‘Alien’ and Self-Checkout Machines: https://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/02/13/21707530/the-future-of-work-in-the-21st-century-self-checkout-in-a-no-service-economy Piketty Gives Good Economics: https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/piketty-gives-good-economics/Content?oid=19281392 And viewing: Charles Mudede, “Adventures with Thomas Piketty”: https://vimeo.com/channels/smokefarmsymposium/108752151 Our website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Our twitter: @PitchforkEcon Our instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	I'm Paul Constant and I'm a writer at Civic Ventures.
0:10.0	So we have a guest with us today who is a full disclosure somebody I worked with for many years.
0:15.9	His name is Charles Madele.
0:17.7	He's a writer at The Stranger and also a filmmaker.
0:20.8	And I'm very excited to have him here because when I first moved to Seattle about 20 years ago
0:27.2	I started picking up the stranger and I would read Charles and he was the first economics writer I think who I really started following and who helped me sort of learn about how these things work because he's very talented at connecting economics to real world issues and so I've wanted to have
0:46.4	them on for a long time so I'm excited to have them here. Can you please give your
0:50.8	name and your title? Well I'm Charles Tundarai,
0:54.8	mood-dade.
0:56.4	I'm the associate of the stranger
0:58.0	and I teach at Cornish College.
1:00.7	And then, and also I'm a director I direct films and I have written films so I'm a filmmaker.
1:08.0	I wanted to talk to you because you've been doing this for a relatively long time in the media.
1:12.0	How long have you been writing about economic issues?
1:15.4	My father was an economist and he was,
1:18.3	he worked with the IMF back in the 19, late 1970s.
1:21.6	And when I was a kid, he would show me things that were sort of like
1:25.6	explained things that were happening in the economy at that time in Zimbabwe.
1:30.1	He would receive this incredible document called the World Bank
1:34.4	estimates for global growth.
1:36.6	And I loved it.
1:38.6	And it was just a weirdest thing, and he had his own bar,
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