SCOOP: Stock Market Drama, The Trouble With the War On Terror & How To Do A Social Media Cleanse
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
2:00: How politics may factor into today’s top stories.
4:00: The stock market.
-3 for new time stamps if we cut internet outage/comeback.
10:00: Why last Friday’s Jobs Report matters.
13:00: Your economic health.
14:00: How will the market close on Friday?
15:00: Instability in the Middle East.
16:00: High-ranking Hamas official killed in Iran.
18:00: The U.S. moves more military assets to the Middle East.
20:00: Concern of war between nation states.
22:00: Plea deal for alleged mastermind of 9/11 terrorist attacks (and accomplices) agreed to, then revoked.
23:00: International News Correspondent (and SmartHER News Guest Editor) Hollie McKay provides context on Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) gathered from on-the-ground reporting.
30:00: The taxpayer contributes 10 million dollars per detainee at Gitmo. Plus, the humanitarian effects of Gitmo.
34:00: Hollie speaks to a unique connection with a former Gitmo detainee.
42:00: Jenna’s editor’s note on the use of the word “terrorism” or “terrorist” in the media.
53:00: A SmartHER tip from Barbara, a member of our SCOOP family.
1:00:00: A solution in news.
Show Notes:
More on how to connect with Hollie McKay
Bomb Smuggled Into Tehran Guesthouse Months Ago Killed Hamas Leader (The New York Times)
Pres. Obama’s Attorney General on one proposal to release GITMO detainees: READ MORE
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:16.9 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to August 5th. It's going to be our first show for August, and it's going to be a really interesting month. Typically during August, we do all sorts of things when it comes to the news. It's a time where the normal, quote, unquote, anchors will take a little time off. You get some folks that may be unfamiliar faces that are going to be broadcasting. It's a time when a lot of |
| 0:38.0 | people go on their final vacations. It's a time when you have to look at the stock market with |
| 0:42.8 | some caution because you know, well, there's a lot of people on vacation and sometimes trade |
| 0:46.8 | volume can be lower. And that could be a factor in a couple of our stories. But we're in a different |
| 0:52.5 | sort of year. It is an election year. And August is also a time |
| 0:57.5 | you're going to see a lot of campaigns float a lot of trial balloons. They're going to start doing it. |
| 1:03.4 | They're going to check language. They're going to check stories. And they're going to kind of |
| 1:07.0 | float them out over the American audience and see how they land. So August is |
| 1:11.9 | going to be an interesting time. It can typically be a sleepy time in news. Doesn't that sound? Doesn't that |
| 1:17.0 | sound nice? Doesn't that sound amazing? I don't know if we're going to have an August. We're not |
| 1:21.9 | going to have an August like that, folks. We're not. We got too many things to look forward to. |
| 1:26.0 | And this is all part of the momentum that is |
| 1:29.4 | building to after Labor Day as we run closer to the election. I tend to be very averse to making |
| 1:39.5 | everything political or weighing down our show with a political lens. But I do want to encourage something |
| 1:46.9 | as you're taking a look at the headlines, whatever headlines sort of break or decisions |
| 1:50.9 | that are made in some of the stories that we've seen over the last week, I think it's important |
| 1:54.7 | to consider a political lens and ask yourself, are these things happening just because |
| 2:00.5 | they're happening and these |
| 2:01.2 | stories are developing? Or how is politics a factor here? How may politics be a factor here |
| 2:09.0 | in an election year? How could that be motivating world leaders to act in a little bit of a |
| 2:14.3 | different way and make different decisions? How could that be an incentive, perhaps, in a major release of unfairly detained Americans |
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