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On the Media

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On the Media

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0

Both sides are responsible for it and both sides seem resigned to it.

0:04.0

Coverage of the sequester offers an object lesson in false equivalents.

0:09.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:12.0

And I'm Bob Garfield. With the eminent selection of a new Pope, a Catholic blogger speculates on the possibilities.

0:19.0

When the Pope himself knows how to go on the

0:21.3

internet and knows how to read comment boxes or Twitter, he sees the world without a filter,

0:26.9

and that takes the world's last great gilded cage and shatters it. Also, a man who went from

0:33.2

town to town persuading parents to pay to put their kids in a movie, he made over and over again.

0:39.1

My favorite aspect to his personality that I've been able to discover is that he actually hated children.

0:44.6

He loved dogs.

0:46.7

There's more coming up after this. Hi podcast listeners.

1:01.1

This is a free service of WNYC radio.

1:04.0

Go to OnTheMedia.org to find out where On the Media is playing in your area

1:07.3

and to support your local public radio station.

1:10.0

You can support this podcast by making a donation at WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:34.4

I'm Bob Garfield.

1:35.4

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:37.1

News of the sequester was inescapable this week, sweeping budget cuts, which, if they're allowed to go through on March 1st, could seriously damage the economy.

1:46.4

Who's to blame?

1:48.0

Everybody!

1:49.0

Both sides are responsible for it, and both sides seem resigned to it.

1:52.5

You have a set of politicians who, on both sides,

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