ITT EXTRA: This Place Is a Snake Pit
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio talk about the role of POC journalism in the Trump era including the latest revelations on the death toll in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, the National Association of Black Journalists' latest resolution and the silent departure of one of the few Latinx in The White House.
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, welcome to In The Fick, I'm Mariang Nohosa, and I'm Juhu Rakelo Varela and this is I T-T-X-S-B-S because it is a Friday, yes. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm so pumped up, I went to my boxing class. I'm like I'm good. I'm good. |
| 0:15.6 | I wrote a bike for 20 miles. Yeah. But I have to get back to boxing. Anyway, Thursday, did you see what our friend Frenchy Robles wrote in the New York Times? |
| 0:26.0 | Yeah, it was very interesting because I don't know where I was that I ended up catching, I guess, |
| 0:31.6 | CNN, and they were reporting on Puerto Rico and I was like, what's I ended up catching, I guess, CNN. |
| 0:32.8 | And they were reporting on Puerto Rico, |
| 0:34.5 | and I was like, what's going on? |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah, so this is what, so basically what happened was Francis, |
| 0:39.5 | she goes by Francis Robles as her byline, |
| 0:41.6 | but we know her as Frenchyy and she's been on in the |
| 0:43.7 | thick several times she reported that the government of Puerto Rico and I'm |
| 0:48.2 | quoting quietly acknowledged that the death count from Hurricane Maria was likely more than 1400 people |
| 0:56.8 | instead of the official death count of 64, which is like, but then what happened, |
| 1:02.1 | surprise, surprise the government |
| 1:03.5 | Puerto Rico all of a sudden having covered them for years they get all you know all the New York Times is calling so we need to respond quickly |
| 1:10.4 | The secretary of the department of public safety his name is Echtor Baskera, he said this in a statement, that the number was not the result of an independent study. |
| 1:22.6 | It is simple math. |
| 1:24.1 | This is not the official number of deaths |
| 1:26.3 | attributable to Hurricane Maria. |
| 1:28.2 | What? |
| 1:29.1 | Wait, is he speaking for the governor at that point? |
| 1:31.2 | So he's? |
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