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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

1. Julia Rock [@jul1arock], reporter at the The Lever, and Allison Fisher [@citizenfisher], director of the Climate and Energy Program for Media Matters for America, on why the Ohio derailment was a foreseeable disaster and how dearth of early media coverage, which failed to hold parties accountable, left space for distrust. Listen.

2. Gönül Tol [@gonultol], the founding director of the Middle East Institute's Turkey program and author of "Erdoğan’s War: A Strongman’s Struggle at Home and in Syria," on the impact of government corruption on Turkey's death toll after this month's earthquake. Listen.

3. Natasha Hall [@NatashaHallDC], a senior fellow at the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on the ways politics have played into a delay in aid in Syria. Listen.

4. Keren Landman [@landmanspeaking], senior reporter covering public health and emerging infectious diseases at Vox, on the risks of bird flu and if we should be worried about another pandemic. Listen.

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0:00.0	Early coverage of the train derailment in Ohio left many with unanswered
0:04.7	questions like why did happen? It was misifying to me that TV news networks still
0:11.2	approach these tragedies omises acts of God or mere accidents because eventually
0:16.4	the information does start to come out. From WNYC in New York this is on the media
0:21.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone on this week's show Disasters Happened from train derailing
0:26.4	to earthquakes. Why aren't we better prepared? There are things that you have to do
0:31.4	before the earthquake hits and the number one priority should be to construct
0:37.1	stronger buildings. Plus the spread of the avian flu among Mink has pandemic
0:42.8	watchers pleading please. No not another one. If you think that coronavirus is
0:49.1	good at spitting out a new variant every few months you ain't seen nothing
0:52.8	but it's the OG shapeshifter. So I'll come in up after this.
0:59.8	From WNYC in New York this is on the media I'm Brooke Gladstone. Did you hear
1:06.2	about the train derailment that brought havoc on the environment and
1:10.0	rained horror on the local community? The cloud continues to travel west as
1:15.1	residents are now being asked to relocate to iron city.
1:18.8	That's actually a clip from the new movie White Noise based on the Don Delilo
1:30.3	novel filmed in June and July of 2021 in Ohio the same place a real train
1:37.4	hauling hazardous materials derailed earlier this month. A state of emergency
1:42.4	has been declared for the village as they continue to evaluate this derailment.
1:47.2	An emergency cruise on Least to control release and burn of toxic chemicals to
1:51.9	prevent a potentially deadly explosion. Rail operator Norfolk Southern says a
1:56.5	variety of chemicals were being carried in the train cars but the highly
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