Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of the Left Podcast.

This is a sample bonus episode, twice a month, our crew of researchers, Amanda and myself

get together for a round table discussion that has been described as feeling like, quote,

getting to hang out with a group of friends who actually know something about the world.

It's also been lamented as a quote, shame the wider audience doesn't get to hear it.

So here's 20 minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about.

There was a piece in Rolling Stone just this last week.

The headline was, Atlanta's spa shootings, what Korean language media told us that the

mainstream media didn't.

And this is a piece by Regina Kim.

I'm just going to read a little excerpt here and then I'm sure we'll have a lot to unpack.

Quote, both Atlanta-based Korean newspapers and South Korea's top news outlets immediately

labeled the massacre as a racially motivated hate crime.

With multiple news sources reporting that the shooter was heard saying, I am going to

kill all Asians as he gunned people down.

Within a couple of days, Korean language media revealed that all four Korean victims

were in their 50s to 70s and that three of the women did not provide any massage services

but open doors and cooked food.

By the end of that week, Korean language media had also reported key statements from people

with knowledge of the incident and from victims' families and acquaintances that have yet

to be revealed in English language media.

By contrast, however, English language media outlets seemed content to take the killer

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