This is a full-blown crisis. It is a humanitarian crisis. It is a national security crisis. It is a health and safety for you and your family crisis.

Increases of migrants at the U.S. border are seasonal. And so is the inevitable fearmongering.

From WN.YC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

Also on this week's show, young reporters sees on the influencer beat

that their elders simply do not grasp.

These are our household names.

But to even just a barely older generation,

these people are total strangers.

Plus, even for those building the beat, particularly for the women, snags and threats abound.

You know, in, like, Tom Cruise, like, Mission Impossible, where he's trying to, like, creep through that room of lasers or whatever.

That's kind of how it feels being on the internet every day.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. This week marked the first days of spring. And for the weekend news shows, that meant returning to one particular perennial refrain.

And now on to a story, a crisis that not only is not going away, but that is gaining steam, and that is the crisis on the southern border.

A crisis, a crescendo that only seemed to get louder as the weak wore on.

The border right now is wide open because the Biden administration dismantled the very effective

policies of the Trump administration and the agreements we had with Mexico and other Latin

American countries. This is a full-blown crisis. It is a national security crisis. It is a health and safety for you and your family crisis.

For weeks, the White House steered clear of the rhetoric,

opting for words like challenge and circumstance and situation.

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