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On the Media

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🗓️ 1 February 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	Packers don't charge through your firewall anymore.
0:04.0	They send cleverly written emails from someone you may know with a link or an attachment that might be relevant to your job description.
0:12.0	The New York Times is barraged by a Chinese cyber assault.
0:16.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:20.0	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:22.1	One musician hears his work on the Fox TV show Glee and is blown away, but not in a good way.
0:29.3	It was a note-for-note copy of my arrangement, and nobody had ever contacted me.
0:34.0	And my first thought was they can't possibly be doing this, can they?
0:37.9	Plus, NPR tweeter extraordinaire, Andy Carvin, on the challenges of reporting the whole
0:44.1	story of the Arab Spring. I would hear from supporters of protesters saying, how dare you
0:49.5	retweet that government minister? You're buying into their propaganda. All that and more.
0:55.0	Coming up next.
0:59.5	Hi, podcast listeners.
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1:15.4	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. If a dog
1:23.1	bites a man, it's not a story. But if a dog bites a journalist, as security technologist Bruce Schneier has observed,
1:30.8	it's front page news.
1:32.8	Well, in this analogy, consider the dog to be Chinese hackers
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