The Times Need A Changing
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Severe weather continued across the Deep South, after intense tornadoes struck Mississippi and Alabama over the weekend, leaving at least 26 people dead and destroying rural towns in one of the poorest areas of the country.
A collective of New York Times contributors released an open letter to the newspaper last month, calling out widespread editorial bias in its reporting on transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people. Freelance journalist Harron Walker and TV critic Sean Collins, two co-authors of the original letter, join us to check in on how the Times has responded.
And in headlines: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his own defense minister for speaking out against a controversial plan to reform the country's judicial system, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, and the Los Angeles Unified School District reached a deal with 30,000 service workers after last week’s massive strike.
Show Notes:
- What A Day: Showing Up For Trans Rights with Chase Strangio – https://crooked.com/podcast/showing-up-for-trans-rights-with-chase-strangio/
- What A Day: For Trans Liberation Is Everyone's Fight with Raquel Willis – https://crooked.com/podcast/the-fight-for-trans-liberation-is-everyones-fight-with-raquel-willis/
- Trans Week of Visibility & Action: March 25-31 (Twitter) – https://twitter.com/trans_week
- We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film – https://www.trevellanderson.com/books
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, March 27th. I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:04.3 | And I'm Josie Tuffy-Race and this is What A Day. |
| 0:06.8 | Where now the succession and yellow jackets are back on the air, |
| 0:09.5 | we are declaring another golden age of television. |
| 0:12.0 | Y'all keep telling me it's good. |
| 0:13.9 | I haven't seen not either one of them yet. |
| 0:16.2 | Look, I'm just gonna lie to you about the plot. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm just gonna tell you on this plot, whoever I need to. |
| 0:21.0 | Because you have got to watch succession. |
| 0:22.4 | I can't be living this life with only one of us watch a succession. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show, the head of Israel's military was fired |
| 0:34.2 | for speaking out against a plan to overhaul the country's judicial system. |
| 0:38.5 | Plus, the latest installment of the John Wick saga annihilated |
| 0:42.1 | its box office competition. |
| 0:43.9 | But first, terrible storms continued across the deep south on Sunday, |
| 0:47.7 | two days after intense tornadoes blew across Mississippi and Alabama on Friday. |
| 0:52.4 | Reports said that the tornadoes completely destroyed multiple rural towns, |
| 0:57.0 | and at least 26 people are dead in one of the poorest areas of the country. |
| 1:01.5 | Okay, so let's start with Friday's tornadoes. |
| 1:04.8 | Tell us what happened there. |
| 1:05.9 | Yeah, so there were multiple tornadoes on Friday, |
| 1:08.5 | but the biggest one was in Mississippi and apparently tore through 90 miles of land |
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