Political Gabfest - Is Facebook Evil?
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🗓️ 28 October 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David talk about the Facebook Papers; Building Back (somewhat) Better; and are joined by author Pamela Paul to talk about the trivial and serious sides of her new book: 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Casey Newton for Platformer on Substack: “How The American Internet Is Turning European”
Farhad Manjoo for The New York Times: “Facebook Is Bad. Fixing It Rashly Could Make It Much Worse.”
Adrienne LaFrance for The Atlantic: “‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’”
Nitish Pahwa for Slate: “The Facebook Crisis in India Might Be the Worst Facebook Crisis of All”
Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley for The New York Times: “Hunting for Money, Democrats Rush to Rewrite Tax Code”
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet, by Pamela Paul
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Alix Wall for Berkeleyside: “This Couple Loves Berkeley Bowl So Much, They Took Their Engagement Photos There” (hat tip: Cyrus Farivar @cfarivar)
David: Andrea Salcedo for The Washington Post: “A Hiker Got Lost In Colorado, Then Ignored Rescuers’ Calls Because They Came From An Unknown Number”
John: Bailey Vogt for Washington City Paper: “Iconic D.C. Barber Diego D’Ambrosio Died At 87”; The Lost Daughter
Listener chatter from Kerry Donovan @KerryDonovanCO: Bill Chappell for NPR: “A Mysterious 'A Team' Just Rescued Dogs From a Volcano's Lava Zone in La Palma”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily, and David discuss the best things the internet has given them.
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| 1:23.9 | I don't even know why I have that question mark. Is Facebook evil? Question mark edition. Hey, you're just exploring ideas, man. You're just throwing stuff out there. You're just asking questions. Just scratch your chin a little bit. Scratching on the beard. I'm David Plotz of Citicast. I'm here in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, you heard her voice in Yale University Law School in New Haven. |
| 1:44.6 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:45.6 | Hey. |
| 1:52.0 | And John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning in New York. Hello, John. |
| 1:57.7 | Hello, David. I like the way you pronounce my last name. It's the way. You ever seen Mr. |
| 2:00.8 | Dickerson's blend by Pete's Coffee? Yes. Totally. |
| 2:11.0 | It's not spelled the same way, but there was a period of my life where whenever I saw that in the supermarket, I would pronounce it just the same way you did, David. |
| 2:16.5 | Speaking of your name, is it, am I crazy, or is there some, do you have some relative who's like Dickie Dickerson? |
| 2:24.0 | No, well, that was my nickname and it was my brother's nickname and my dad's name was Claude, |
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