Hello and welcome to Slate Money, our weekly podcast about everything, business and finance.

I'm Felix Salmon, the senior editor at Fusion, here in New York, and this week's show is a particularly special one because we have an amazing guest panelist. And in his honor, we've

constructed a bit of a media theme. I'll try to make this about a little more than just

journalists talking about journalism. We're going to talk about Apple's purchase of beats, Dr. Dre's

company with those massive headphones you see on pretty much everybody

these days. We're going to talk about Amazon and its brazen bullying of French publisher

Hachette. And we'll talk about the most famous French economist in the world, Toma Piccetti,

who recently had a bit of a run-in with the Financial Times.

And as we do, every week we'll wrap up with our numbers, lightning round,

where each panelist briefly offers an important number from the week.

And with us is the amazing Kathy O'Neill,

who's the program director of the lead program,

which is a data journalism program

at the Columbia Journalism School, and also a blogger at mathbabe.org, and generally a very

smart and awesome person.

Hi, Felix.

Hi, Kathy.

And because Jordan Weissman is traveling this week, we have a pinch hitter from the

corner office here at Slate, the chairman, editor-in-chief in general

grand pooh bar, Mr. Jacob Weisberg, debonair, man about town with elegantly tailored suits,

and a fine taste in vintage burgundy. Jacob.

Thank you, Felix. It's a short cap from Weissman to Weisberg, that we just moved one up,

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