You don't know what my real charge to people is my real charge to people is look around and see who's missing

And try to invite that person in any given moment any given situation who's not here

Who's not here? Yeah, so there's all this like I'm sad that this is this way

Okay, what is the one thing you could do to fix it go do that thing?

Just go do that thing

If journalism is a primary way we tell the story of ourselves and our time

Michelle Martin is a person helping us tell that story and shape it more completely

Her daily NPR program tell me more was often labeled as a diversity or a minority show

But in fact she and her journalism are about a more generous and realistic sweep of who we are now and how we're creating our life together

A new in this third episode in our American consciousness series

We mine her wisdom on the emerging fabric of human identity. I'm Christopher Tippet and this is on being

I spoke with Michelle Martin in a week of live conversations as part of the

2014 season at the Chattacay institution

We were in the outdoor

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So this is the day that I get to indulge in drawing out a

contemporary and a comrade and an esteemed colleague in my field

Michelle Martin and we're going to talk about the shifting American consciousness as it pertains to our world of journalism

And also about the wisdom she's gained

About the world through her life and her work in this field. Although we we did just set the ground rules that I'm this is my interview and I'm in charge here

If she gets out of control, I'm gonna call her

Michelle Martin has spent more than 25 years as a journalist. She's worked in print on television and now in radio

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