Kate Spade and clickbait culture

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Hello listener friends! Coming up on today's show: How did the media do in handling the tragic suicide of Kate Spade? The coverage was pretty deplorable if you ask us. Plus, does Miss America dumping the swimsuit section from their competitions mean pageants are feminist? AND we really need to deep dive into the strange underground world of female fitness influencers injecting themselves with steroids. If you would like to skip our segment on Kate Spade and suicide, please pick back up at 35m 15s. Help is always available at Lifeline on 13 11 14. Click here for Guy Raz's interview with Kate Spade on How I Built This. And here for Zara's Mamamia.com.au story on celebrities and mental health. Aaaaand here for Jordan Camilla's YouTube video on PED culture amongst Instagram influencers. As always, you're so welcome to join the conversation in our Facebook group! Otherwise, you can find us on Twitter, follow Michelle on Instagram here, Zara on Instagram here or get in touch at shamelessthepodcast@gmail.com. Oh oh oh oh and we’re on Instagram now, too. Follow us here. And before we go: We're a tiny, little independent podcast who rely on YOU GUYS so others can find us. If you have the time, we'd love it if you could subscribe to the show. This episode was produced by Michelle Andrews with royalty free music from Bensound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	Hello and
0:52.8	Hello and welcome to Shameless, the Celebrity and Pop Culture podcast that goes deep on all the
0:58.4	dumb stuff.
0:59.4	You're joined as always by Melbourne journalists Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald.
1:04.0	To Melbourne journalists who only today, after 14 weeks of using this equipment,
1:08.0	realized that we could extend our microphone stands instead of putting them on used books.
1:12.0	We have to source books from all... stands instead of putting them on used books.
1:13.0	We have to source books from all around whoever's house we were recording at
1:17.0	when in fact the mic stands, as you can probably imagine because that's what mic stands do,
1:21.0	have a little function where you can like screw it and pull it up.
1:24.0	14 weeks.
1:25.0	It's like it's like magic.
1:28.0	Hey coming up on today's show, Miss America has dumped their swimwear component, but does it even matter?
1:34.4	Plus the tragic loss of Kate Spade and the strange underground world of influences
1:39.2	injecting themselves with steroids. But first Michelle, how was your week?
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