The First Viral Video, New Drone Disclosures, and Reclaiming the Word Jihad.

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🗓️ 8 February 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone and on this week's on the media, the case for and against drones.
0:07.0	The White House says, these strikes are legal, they are ethical, and they are wise.
0:12.0	While the detractors say, we need a long-term understanding and not just a short-term assessment of,
0:18.0	oh, the drone killed this bad person, so it must be good.
0:22.4	Also on this week's show, we unpack a couple of rebranding efforts. First, the word jihad.
0:28.2	You might see an image of a girl in a hijab lifting up a dumbbell, and the words, my jihad
0:33.5	is to stay fit despite my busy schedule. And that elevator music company wants to drop the name Musak.
0:40.2	We hear from a fan of the genre.
0:42.7	Anytime you try to defend it or think of theories about why it's so good, that's like being
0:48.4	a communist in the 1950s.
0:50.7	There's more on the media coming up after this.
0:59.8	Music There's more on the media coming up after this. Hi, podcast listeners.
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1:10.0	You can support this podcast by making a donation at WNYC.org.
1:16.2	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:20.0	Bob Garfield is away this week.
1:21.7	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:24.2	To some, drones are an elegant way to minimize collateral damage in American casualties.
1:30.3	To others, drones are extrajudicial killing machines, reigning death on both civilians and combatants with almost no oversight.
1:38.3	Whatever your opinion of drones, they were hard to ignore this week.
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