Her Day in Court

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, E. Jean Carroll was awarded 5 million dollars in damages in a trial that found Donald J. Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation. Shortly after, Trump mocked Carroll in a town hall on CNN. On this week’s On the Media, hear what Carroll’s case, and its coverage, tells us about the progress of the Me Too Movement. Plus, how Big Tech has made the internet harder to use.

1. Our host Brooke Gladstone [@OTMBrooke] on what the CNN town hall actually revealed. Listen.

2. Rebecca Traister [@rtraister], writer-at-large for New York Magazine, and author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, on what E. Jean Carroll's case can tell us about the #MeToo movement. Listen.

3. Cory Doctorow [@doctorow], journalist, activist, and the author of Red Team Blue, on the political attitudes and technical mechanisms that lead to the decline of platforms online. Listen.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's me.
0:02.3	Before we get into this week's show, I need to pass on a quick message, and if you already
0:06.3	know exactly what I'm about to say, then bravo!
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0:57.9	Urgent message over?
0:59.5	How to the show.
1:01.8	Donald Trump returned to the main stage this week, and boy, would you not be surprised.
1:06.9	The falsehoods kept coming fast and furious about the January 6th insurrection, about
1:10.4	COVID, about the economy and more.
1:12.2	From WNYC in New York, this is On The Media.
1:14.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:17.0	After the defeat of Roe v. Wade, there was a sense that the Me Too backlash had arrived,
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