The Attack on Charlie Hebdo, Reckoning with Free Speech, and More

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🗓️ 9 January 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

After the massacre at the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, a look at the symbolic weight of French satire and true freedom of speech.

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0:00.0	The average person in France knew that Charlie Abdul stood for left-wing, iconoclastic, anti-racism, anti-homaphobic
0:10.8	beliefs.
0:12.2	A bloodbath that a French satirical weekly has put a spotlight on press freedom and its vulnerability.
0:19.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:22.3	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:23.5	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:24.8	Also on the show, businesses that thrive on the virality of other people's content.
0:30.3	As for the actual creators of said content,
0:33.2	We make a living the old-fashioned way and we can't eat clicks or tweets.
0:37.2	And the most futuristic predictions that became reality in 2014.
0:43.2	Number one on my list, the first ever successful demonstration of minds-to-mind communication between humans.
0:50.3	There's so much more.
0:52.2	After this.
1:04.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:05.6	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:06.9	And I'm Bob Garfield.
1:08.7	Liberty, expression.
1:10.9	Liberty, expression. Liberty, expression.
1:16.2	Much of the Western world was horrified this week by a massacre at a French weekly Charlie Abdo, which specializes in caustic line-crossing cartoons.
1:22.9	Here's French President Francois Hollande.
1:28.4	It's an act of exceptional barbarity that has just been committed here in Paris against a newspaper,
1:33.7	a newspaper that stands for freedom of expression against journalists determined to defend their ideas
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