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🗓️ 3 October 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The splintering image of the Secret Service, why rumors are more interesting than fact, and an atheist tome for kids. 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	I wish to God you protected the White House like you're protecting your reputation here today.
0:07.5	It's not just about losing faith in the Secret Service, but losing faith in everything.
0:13.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:17.1	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:18.6	Rumors, turbocharged by the internet, often get reported as fact.
0:23.0	But when the truth emerges, do news outlets ripe their wrongs? Only about 2% of articles that had
0:29.9	an error were ever corrected. And a writer frustrated with what he sees as a religion-saturated
0:35.6	culture publishes an atheist tome for kids.
0:40.4	I sometimes think there is no boss that most things happen just because.
0:45.5	Murphy, though, does not agree. He sits around and worships me.
0:49.8	Murphy's a DOG.
0:52.4	More coming up.
1:10.7	Music A DOG. More coming up. From WNYC in New York. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.
1:16.4	And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Potus, we have a problem.
1:19.9	The director of the Secret Service has just resigned.
1:24.3	Members of Congress from both parties had been calling for Julia Pearson to step down or be fired after a string of security breaches.
1:32.2	This time the Secret Service is in the woodshed, after a man with a knife jumped the White House fence and made it all the way to the East Room.
1:40.3	That followed an incident at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta when a man with a criminal record and a gun joined the president in an elevator.
1:49.2	Congress withered Secret Service Chief Pearson with a rare bipartisan blast.
1:54.4	I wish to God you protected the White House like you're protecting your reputation here today.
1:59.4	An internal investigation is not sufficient. An internal investigation is not sufficient.
2:03.5	I repeat, is not sufficient. Let me be frank. I believe that you have done a disservice to the
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