SCOOP: Context Is Key
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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0:00: Why all journalists fear April 1 (also the day Google launched Gmail to doubters and deniers).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. |
| 0:04.6 | My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:17.4 | Well, hello, everybody. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to a brand new month of April. |
| 0:23.8 | This is a day that,ly all journalists fear. It is April Fool's Day. It's the first day of April. And it's a moment in time |
| 0:30.4 | where we will appropriately pause before any major headline and wonder, is that real or is that not? It is, it strikes, |
| 0:40.8 | it's a day that strikes a fear in journalists around the world because you know you're going |
| 0:45.4 | to see something. You're going to see something and wonder, is that something I should chase? |
| 0:48.7 | Or is that an April Fool's joke? This actually happened 20 years ago when Google was |
| 0:53.9 | announcing the Gmail service. |
| 0:56.5 | And they decided they're going to announce it on April Fool's Day. |
| 0:59.6 | And there was a collective sort of questioning of, is that real? |
| 1:03.4 | Are you actually going to get like this free email service through Gmail? |
| 1:06.8 | It's going to be easy to use. |
| 1:07.8 | You're going to get a lot of storage. |
| 1:08.9 | Is that a real thing? |
| 1:10.9 | And of course, it was a real thing. And now 20 years later, about two of every person on the planet has a Gmail account. |
| 1:20.4 | So there's reason to pay attention today because you never know what you're going to see. |
| 1:24.6 | And there's also a reason to be cautious today because you never know what you're going to see. And I guess it's true about all times, but particularly April |
| 1:31.0 | Fulls Day. As you know, I'm always wondering, well, why? Why is today April Fool's Day? Where does this come from? We're going to be curious about some of the things that we just sort of see on a regular basis and pass this by like oh yeah it's April Fool's Day but why why is it |
| 1:27.6 | April Fool's Day. But why? |
| 1:44.3 | Why is it April Fool's Day? Well, I didn't realize what I was getting into researching that. Apparently, there's, you could go real deep. You could go back to the Roman Empire for April Fool's Day. And there's all sorts of theories about where it came from. But really, it caught on in American culture in the 19th century so in in the 1800s, mid-1800s or so, where we start seeing it more in pop culture. |
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