Media Kidnapping Blackouts, A Conversation With Carl Kasell, and More

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🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Gruesome murders of American journalists by ISIS militants have raised serious questions about the way the media should cover these acts of terrorism. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	We had 30 journalists who were kidnapped.
0:03.8	Most of those cases were blacked out.
0:06.0	So you had a kidnapping epidemic.
0:08.7	That was simply not being covered.
0:10.7	To protect colleagues, news organizations regularly don't report journalist kidnappings.
0:16.3	Are they abdicating their journalistic responsibility?
0:19.6	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:23.1	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:25.3	After this week's theft of nude photos from iCloud,
0:28.9	comedian Louis C.K.'s words from 2012 are eerily prescient.
0:33.3	They want you to go to the cloud.
0:35.2	You don't need your stuff. Just give it to us.
0:37.0	We'll keep it on the cloud. Really, but those are my. Just give it to us. We'll keep it on the cloud.
0:38.6	Really, but those are my pictures.
0:39.8	Just give it.
0:40.7	We'll keep it on the cloud.
0:42.3	And we'll talk with Carl Castle about his retirement
0:45.0	and play him some of the messages left on his home answering machine.
0:49.8	I will never forget my time on the show.
0:51.9	A lot of people didn't know my name, but you guys were already making fun of it. There's more coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:05.1	Brooke Ladstone is away this week. I'm Bob Garfield. The ISIS video showing the beheading of another
1:10.5	American journalist is authentic.
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