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The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2014

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Should we be more concerned about black juror exclusion in capital trials? Today on The Gist, the Virginia Quarterly Review investigation "Bias in the Box," by Dax-Devlon Ross. Then, should you ever attend a child's birthday party in a hazmat suit? Slate's Emily Yoffe joins us for a Post-Prudence Impact Statement with past letter writer "The Shot Is Safe." For the Spiel, Mike explains why he agrees with disagreeing. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GIST is sponsored by Stamps.com.
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0:20.5	It's Friday, October 10th, 2014 from Slate. It's The Gist. It's Friday, October 10th, 2014 from Slate.
0:24.2	It's The Gist.
0:24.9	I'm Mike Pasca.
0:25.6	Two big announcements.
0:26.5	One is we're starting to do some videos.
0:28.5	I have one up.
0:29.1	It shows TV news reporters holding up sheafs.
0:33.1	Sheafs, is that a word?
0:34.3	Sheafs of paper.
0:35.6	Sheaves of paper.
0:37.4	And saying, I have the document.
0:39.7	If I want a Peabody for this supercut on the backs of all these reporters who probably themselves didn't win the Peabody, it's unfair, but it is trending in that direction.
0:48.1	The other big announcement we're making today is today the GIST is debuting an addition of the gist for the tween market we call it
0:57.6	tween gist 14 because it's 2014 it's like for 14 year olds actually it's for 12 year olds but it's
1:02.5	aspirational tween marketers will tell you this is how it works it's going to be everything i do
1:07.0	all my interviews but it'll be overdub by ar Carter, actually a 54-year-old guy who sounds
1:11.8	like Aaron Carter. Actually, that's not true at all. But I was reading the other day about how
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