The Political Gabfest: The Google Will Never, Ever, Ever Forget You Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: discussing climate change with the Bad Astronomer, Phil Pait; Jill Abramson fired from The Gray Lady; and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. For May 16th, 2014, the Google will
1:27.4	never, ever, ever, ever forget you edition I'm David Plottsy at their Slate. This week,
1:33.2	we'll disastrous news about the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet finally convinced
1:38.2	climate change skeptics. Of course it won't.
1:41.6	Footmarker Rubio isn't worried because Florida does not have any coastline to protect in
1:45.6	case of huge ocean rises. Then Jill Abramson is unceremoniously and mysteriously fired
1:52.4	as the editor of New York Times is the sexism. And then a European court rules that Europeans
1:57.2	can compel Google to purge certain embarrassing information from its search results. Is this
2:02.7	a triumph for privacy or a blow to free speech? Or perhaps both? I am joined in Slate
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