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Indicted

On the Media

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For the first time in our history, a former U.S. president has been indicted. On this week’s On the Media, what Israel can teach us about when a nation’s leader runs afoul of the law. Plus, social media companies are back in the hot seat, facing serious legal threats at the local and national levels.

1. Yael Freidson [@YaelFreidson], legal correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, on why the crisis in Israel reached a boiling point after Prime Minister Netanyahu's attempts to cut down systems of accountability. Listen.

2. Julia Bacha [@juliabacha], the director of the documentary film ‘Boycott’ and the creative director at Just Vision, a nonprofit media organization that creates content about Israel and Palestine, on how Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs was created to combat the boycott movement—first within borders, then overseas. Listen.

3. Avi Asher-Schapiro [@AASchapiro], tech reporter at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, on the surge of bills across the United States aiming to reduce the impact of social media on the mental health of children and teens. Listen.

4. Jacqueline Nesi [@JacquelineNesi], assistant professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, on the murkiness of the data on teen mental health and social media, and the possible consequences of restricting screen time. Listen.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The headline on Thursday evening was two words, all caps.

0:05.0

Trump indicted.

0:06.0

A grand jury here in New York City has just handed up an indictment against former President

0:11.6

Donald Trump, making him the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal

0:16.4

charges.

0:17.4

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media I Know You Marits.

0:21.4

This week in Israel, strike demonstrations, blocked roads, grounded planes, and a prime

0:26.5

minister with his back against the wall.

0:28.5

Smith and Yao passed a bill that they wouldn't be able to remove him from office, saying

0:34.7

to the Attorney General, I don't care what do you say.

0:38.2

I'm taking control.

0:40.0

And a new law in Utah is supposed to protect teens using social media.

0:43.6

It's been called an invasion of privacy and paternalistic.

0:47.9

But we don't let kids drink before a certain age.

0:50.7

We don't let kids walk into a movie theater and see an R-rated movie, or when it comes

0:54.0

to the internet, like all bets are off.

0:55.9

It's all coming up after this.

1:01.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:04.0

I'm I Know You Marits, in for Brick Gladstone.

1:07.0

When I hosted the show, about six months ago, we asked this big question about how countries

1:12.3

around the world deal with leaders who may have committed crimes.

1:16.9

Since then, there's been movement.

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