News Brief: Defensiveness and Demagoguery in East Palestine
Citations Needed
Citations Needed
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this News Brief, we discuss the initial lack of coverage of the devastating February 3rd train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio; the coverage of the lack of coverage; the GOP's "white genocide" exploitation; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's defensiveness; and the real human stakes of decades of bipartisan deregulation and union-busting.
Our guest is journalist Matthew Cunningham-Cook (@matthewccook5), a writer and researcher covering health care, retirement policy and capital markets. He is currently a reporter at The Lever.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a Citations Needed News Brief. |
| 0:06.4 | I am Neem Asurazi. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Adam Johnson. |
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| 0:22.1 | We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-length episodes when there |
| 0:27.1 | is either breaking news or something really important that we're seeing across media. |
| 0:31.8 | We really just want to tackle it in a way that is slightly different than our regular |
| 0:36.0 | episodes. |
| 0:37.0 | We are actually really honored today to be joined by Matthew Cunningham Cook, a reporter |
| 0:43.0 | at the Leather, a writer and researcher with deep expertise in healthcare retirement |
| 0:48.0 | policy and capital markets. |
| 0:49.5 | Matthew has been one of the most reliable and dogged journalists covering the February |
| 0:53.9 | 3rd Norfolk Southern Train to Railman in East Palestine, Ohio. |
| 0:57.6 | It's a town in northeast Ohio close to Youngstown and the Pennsylvania border and the site |
| 1:04.4 | of a recent train to railman which then precipitated a real-life airborne toxic event. |
| 1:10.8 | We are thrilled to have you with us, Matthew. |
| 1:13.4 | Welcome to Citations Needed. |
| 1:15.2 | Thanks so much for having me on. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:19.0 | It's been give or take three and a half weeks. |
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