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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Two decades have passed since George W. Bush gave his “Mission Accomplished” speech about the U.S. invasion of Iraq. On this week’s On the Media, hear how Iraqi journalists have fought to tell their stories over the last twenty years. Plus, what coverage of the Disney v. Florida lawsuits is missing, and a theory to account for the internet’s creeping demise.

1. Mark Joseph Stern [@mjs_DC], a senior writer covering courts and the law for Slate, on Disney taking Ron DeSantis to court. Listen.

2. OTM producer Suzanne Gaber [@SuzanneGaber] takes a closer look the troubles and triumphs of Iraqi journalism, twenty years after George W. Bush delivered his famous “Mission Accomplished” speech. Listen.

3. Cory Doctorow [@doctorow], journalist, activist, and the author of Red Team Blue, on his theory surrounding the slow, steady descent of the internet. Listen.

Music from this week's show:

I’m Not Following You - Michael Andrews

I'm Forever blowing bubbles

We Insist - Zoe Keating

The Glass House - David Bergau

The Hammer of Los - John Zorn

Transcript

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0:00.0	Disney frames its lawsuit against Florida as a free speech fight, but its legal case is based on
0:06.1	reviving the Morabund Contracts clause.
0:09.5	Minimum wage laws, health and safety laws, child labor laws, the court struck down on this theory that the
0:16.8	Constitution protects this very broad freedom of contract.
0:21.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, Umbra Gladstone.
0:25.4	20 years exactly since the US declared mission accomplished in Iraq for Iraqi journalists,
0:32.5	the path toward a free press is increasingly OK.
0:36.2	I think the landscape is very different in Iraq at the moment.
0:39.5	More intense for entrepreneurs?
0:41.7	It is so intense that they cannot answer this question.
0:44.2	Plus, why everything on the internet kind of sort of seems to be getting worse?
0:48.8	In certification is the death cycle of platforms.
0:52.6	Rather than doing a useful thing, you sit between people who do useful things and people who need useful things.
0:58.2	It's all coming up after this.
1:00.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, Umbra Gladstone.
1:05.0	The feud between the Florida governor and the state's largest employer began over a year ago.
1:12.9	Disney vs. DeSantis, the CEO of Disney now pushing back against Florida's parental rights and education bill,
1:18.9	which of course has become known as the Don't Say Gay Bill.
1:21.9	Disney's CEO Bob Chapich came out strongly against it, said it should be repealed,
1:28.1	incited with Disney's LBGTQ employees and their allies in Florida.
1:33.9	Governor DeSantis was not happy.
1:36.5	Today, Florida's Republican-controlled House gave final legislative approval to a measure
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