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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With Roe v Wade under threat, some politicians and media outlets are trying to turn the national conversation away from abortion and toward civility. On this week’s On the Media, how the GOP has mastered the art of setting the narrative. Plus, how moral panics surrounding dangerous TikTok trends follow a century-old pattern of blaming new technology for the deviant behavior of teenagers.

1. Paul Waldman [@paulwaldman1], opinion writer for the Washington Post, on Republicans decrying the draft opinion leak and protests to motivate their base ahead of the midterms. Listen.

2. Micah Loewinger [@MicahLoewinger], OTM correspondent, on alarmist news coverage of TikTok challenges and its misleading influence on panicked parents. Listen.

3. Brandy Zadrozny [@BrandyZadrozny], senior reporter for NBC News, on the story of Tiffany Dover, and how misinformation about her death fueled anti-vax messaging. Listen.

Music:

Fallen Leaves by Marcos Ciscar The Camping Store by Clive Carroll and John Renbourn Coffee Cold by Galt MacDermot Middlesex Times by Michael Andrews

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0:00.0	All of a sudden we're all talking about whether or not it's okay for a few dozen people
0:05.3	to hold some signs outside Brett Kavanaugh's house.
0:08.1	How did it draft opinion upending 50 years of legal precedent, devolved into a squabble
0:13.3	about picketing suburban front yards?
0:16.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:19.2	I'm Brandy Strasny.
0:21.4	Also on this week's show, how to sniff out a moral panic over brand new tech?
0:26.5	Once the radio was feared to ruin kid's brains, later it was video games.
0:30.8	Now it's TikTok.
0:32.7	If a reporter just says it trended, where's the evidence?
0:35.6	How much did it trend?
0:36.6	Waiter did it trend?
0:38.3	What made it trend?
0:39.3	Plus, what happens when ordinary people unwittingly become the face of viral conspiracy
0:44.3	theories?
0:45.3	First they say, this isn't a misunderstanding and I can explain it.
0:48.4	And then they start to realize that anything they do feeds into the pattern of harassment
0:54.0	and invasive communications.
0:56.2	It's all coming up after this.
1:01.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.3	I'm Brandy Strasny.
1:06.4	My day job is as a reporter for NBC News on the misinformation beat.
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