The backlash against protests; plus, how OJ Simpson changed media forever

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🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Earlier this week, pro-Palestinian protestors blocked traffic on highways and bridges in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Seattle. On that same day, the Supreme Court made it incredibly difficult to protest in a lot of the American South. In this episode, host Brittany Luse looks at the state of protest in America. She sits down with Sandhya Dirks, an NPR reporter who covers race and identity, and Elizabeth Blair, a senior arts reporter at NPR. Together, they discuss shifting attitudes towards protest as well as new anti-protest legislation. Then, they play a game of But Did You Know?

After that, we take a look back at OJ Simpson and his impact on culture. Brittany is joined by NPR's Mandalit Del Barco and Eric Deggans to hear their account of how OJ shifted media and television as we know it. He's had an outsized influence on everything from true-crime, to TMZ, to the Kardashians.

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0:17.0	Hello hello I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about
0:25.9	what's going on in culture and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
0:45.2	I know, I know. How are all these things connected? Well, we're going to find out with
0:50.5	NPR's Senior Arts reporter Elizabeth Blair and Sandia Durks who
0:54.6	covers race and identity for NPR. Elizabeth, Sandia, welcome to It's
0:59.7	Been Minute. Hey Brittany, thank you. Hi Brittany. It's a pleasure to have you both here. Okay, so I know you both have a lot to say about what we're going to talk about, but let me just set this stage. So this week we saw two different scenes that show how America's relationship
1:14.7	to protesting has been evolving. In San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Seattle,
1:19.5	pro-Palestinian protesters blocked traffic on highways and bridges.
1:24.0	On the same day in Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court made it incredibly difficult to protest
1:29.5	in a lot of the American South.
1:31.6	Elizabeth, Sandia, any other protest news I missed this week?
1:35.8	Oh boy. So what I've been watching, Protest-Wise this week, is massive protests at Columbia
1:41.2	University where they've set up a tent city.
1:44.8	I was just reading that Google, employees at Google,
1:47.6	staged a sit-in and that some of them have been fired.
1:51.2	Is that right?
1:52.0	Yep, yep, that happened too. Wow. Wow. There's
1:54.8	protest news everywhere right now. We are in a moment of protest and in a moment of
1:59.2	crisis around that protest. I mean there's a lot to unpack here, a is a way to impact here but to kick things
2:05.1	off more broadly a protest itself at the most basic level is a way to express
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