PREVIEW - The Friday Edition: Whatever happened to the baby formula shortage?
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
At Tangle, we’ve recently been reflecting on our coverage from the past five years, identifying stories that we covered once or twice, thought could reshape our lives, and then… they didn’t. And we’re asking: What happened to that story?
So today, we’re trying to figure out how one story in particular has panned out. The topic should be familiar to most: the 2022 baby formula shortage. As we’ll get into below, the story combined pandemic-era challenges with existing supply chain issues (and a bit of bad luck), raising fears that millions of infants across the U.S. were facing a nutritional crisis. But did those concerns come to bear? And are the underlying issues actually resolved?
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| 0:45.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm your host today, senior editor Will Kayback, and in today's Friday edition, we're going to be winding back the clock to 2022 and taking a look at a story that has fallen out of the |
| 1:11.7 | news cycle but remains particularly relevant to some of the major issues of today. And that is |
| 1:17.5 | the infant formula shortage that took place for about six months in 2022 during the pandemic. |
| 1:24.6 | We're going to look at what happened, the causes of the shortage, how we got out of it, |
| 1:29.2 | and some of the lessons that we should take. And we're also going to talk a little bit about |
| 1:33.0 | how the media's coverage of that incident influenced the way we think about the news and consume |
| 1:38.1 | the news. It's part of a series that we're considering making a reoccurring project at Tangle. |
| 1:43.4 | So we'd love to hear what you |
| 1:45.0 | think about this coverage style. We'll talk more about the framing of this piece as we get into it. |
| 1:50.3 | So for now, let's get started. |
| 1:58.6 | Sometimes consuming the news can feel like trying to carry all the bags from a big grocery |
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