Not ALL Things Considered

The Gist

Mike Pesca

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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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NPR was not particularly receptive to the critiques put forth by former Senior Editor Uri Berliner. In a full-show interview on today's show, Berliner makes the case that NPR has become too ideologically rigid, and he spells out some solutions, which do not include government defunding. Plus, when peanut butter cups purport to be specific shapes, but just look like undifferentiated blobs, how many millions is the damage worth? Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.2	Faith in our institutions has crater. Gallup reports that only 8% of Americans have a great deal
1:08.8	or a good deal of faith in newspapers. TV news it's 14%, Congress 8%, big business 14%.
1:19.0	So on that last one a brave attorney Anthony Russo takes a stand.
1:24.7	Back in the old days when I was growing up,
1:27.5	there was a lot of trust in the companies
1:30.2	that we bought the products from.
1:31.6	We got what we paid for and there was no kind of any kind of
1:36.8	pulling punches or any kind of funny business going on. I think now people are just
1:41.6	losing faith in the fact that companies are not producing the products that
1:47.1	consumers feel like they're paying for.
1:49.3	Indeed Anthony Russo attorney at law and the object of his stance, well, it's a big one.
1:56.1	We have legendary Reese's peanut butter cups versus newcomer Reese's medals.
2:01.6	The Reese's peanut butter cup metal-shaped Olympics tie-in.
2:05.0	Now it is true that Olympic athletes get the majority of their caloric intake from peanut
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