Episode 156

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The United States has experienced a slew of mass murders in recent years, but the two mass shootings that occurred within 14 hours of each other in August of 2019 have made a big impact on a society that is becoming more complacent by the day. The 24-hour news cycle consistently seems to have a negative effect on the frequency of these mass shootings as well as the continued desensitization of our society.

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0:00.0	Sord and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Breaking news from Dayton, Ohio, a second mass shooting in the United States in less than 24 hours.
0:21.4	Welcome to Season 7, Episode 156 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst
0:27.3	monsters are real.
0:51.3	Yeah. Well, today we have the somber task of examining a horror, which has become all too common in the U.S. mass shootings.
0:56.9	But unlike the news media's particular flavor of coverage, we'll examine this phenomenon with the goal of uncovering the responsibility that the media has in how it reports
1:03.1	what it chooses to report. A particular incident or set of incidents just this past year brought
1:10.3	this topic to light. Two mass shootings,
1:13.9	taking place within hours of each other, both covered or not covered in completely different ways
1:20.4	by the same news outlets, which pretty much exposed the apparent biases inherent in each major news network.
1:29.3	If it wasn't obvious before, this set of incidents shined a light on what each network
1:34.2	decided was newsworthy and what they decided was not.
1:38.8	We'll take a look at each and give you all of the information and the respect to make your own choices on just exactly what happened.
1:47.3	We're joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Michelle Carcel. Stay with us. I'm In an era where most of us barely need to move our heads to locate a digital screen of some sort. Media has more of a massive impact than
2:36.0	ever before. When we think of the news media in particular, the term no longer encompasses just the
2:43.3	newspaper, radio, and news stations on television. It has expanded to include social media like
2:49.4	Facebook and Twitter, where many in the younger
2:52.4	generations absorb the bulk of their news.
2:56.6	It can include apps that aren't even quite considered social media like Buzzfeed, Reddit,
3:02.7	and shockingly even Snapchat, none of which were ever created with the intention of spreading national and
3:09.2	international news stories to the masses, yet they've unfortunately evolved into news media outlets.
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