Introducing: The Assignment

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4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Fiery Twitter threads and endless news notifications never capture the full story. Each week on The Assignment, host Audie Cornish pulls listeners out of their digital echo chambers to hear from the people who live the headlines. From the sex work economy to the battle over what’s taught in classrooms, no topic is off the table. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why am I calling this show The Assignment?
0:04.3	Well, for years as a journalist, I got all kinds of assignments.
0:08.1	Natural disasters.
0:09.4	People saw roofs fly and cars flip over.
0:12.4	Political disasters.
0:13.9	And yet the president brings up Vice President Joe Biden and specifically his son.
0:18.6	Those are not issues related to foreign interference in the 2016 election.
0:23.8	Adi, come on. Come on.
0:26.6	Sometimes, even personal ones.
0:29.1	How has this affected your grieving?
0:31.5	The only thing worse than losing a child in a mass shooting in America is have to live the rest of your
0:38.8	life defending that she's actually gone. But there are lots of people, movement, stories that
0:44.4	aren't necessarily disasters and that don't become assignments. And that's where this show comes
0:51.2	in. Were there moments of this journey for you where you felt villainized?
0:57.8	I think I speak for most parents right now that have decided to stand up and speak out at school board meetings being called domestic terrorist.
1:05.4	Some stories are more nuanced than a headline.
1:09.1	I feel like sex work, it sort of is operating by a different set of rules in our culture.
1:15.0	Yeah, but also it's a space that I still have power in.
1:20.3	Some don't fit neatly in a headline.
1:23.2	Something happened in your eyes when you just told that story.
1:26.1	Oh, I could see it.
1:27.5	Yeah, I could see it. Yeah, I could see it.
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