Re-Sorting the Shelves: A Look at Bias In the Dewey Decimal System

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Librarians grapple with the bias baked into classification systems.

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0:00.0	Hello, Michael O'Inger. Welcome to the top of the show. Thanks for having me, Brooke Gladstone.
0:05.0	Do you know why we're here? I do, yes. I'm here to ask you a bunch of important questions
0:10.9	and I want you to respond honestly. As I always do. Okay, why are we here? We're here because
0:19.0	it's that time of year when we have to ask our listeners, I'm sorry, my cat, one second.
0:25.5	We're here to once again ask our listeners to consider financially supporting on the media.
0:35.5	Why? Because there are many people behind the scenes researching, coming up with ideas,
0:42.4	editing things really, really fast, doing all the smart media analysis stuff and that is hard
0:48.4	work that costs money. Why should they care? Our listeners? Because I think we do a good job.
0:54.6	I mean, think about the midterms, for instance, if the 2020 presidential election is any indication,
0:59.7	our media ecosystem is going to be inundated in false information, disinformation,
1:07.6	journalism is time and resource intensive because anyone can just spout their opinion,
1:15.0	do punditry, spread lies, but doing the kind of analysis that we do, doing the deep reporting
1:23.0	that we do is really hard. Okay, now you ask me and let's see how it goes. Okay. Hey,
1:30.9	Brooke, welcome to on the media, your own show. Oh, thank you very much, Michael Lohanscher.
1:35.5	I love being on your show. Brooke, do you know why we're here? Yes, I do. It is fundraising time
1:42.6	and people are going to be important by us to give us some money so that we can continue to do the
1:49.0	job we do. And why are we asking for money? Because we rely on the public. It's the most
1:55.3	consistent form of support is everybody knows. And because it's also a uniquely cool way of
2:02.3	funding journalism, we are not persuadable by any large single funding source. It's a lot,
2:10.0	a lot of, a lot of individual people that enable us to maintain our independence and to provide
2:16.3	what is a unique service on the media is a show like no other, wouldn't you say? I agree,
2:23.2	but I'd like to know why you think our show is unique and why you think our show needs this membership
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