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The Gist

The Vicious Circle of Mass Shooting Media Coverage

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode of The Gist, Mike talks with Ari Schulman of the New Atlantis about how it may be even more dangerous than we think to give so much media coverage to mass killers like Elliot Rodger, perpetrator of Friday night's shootings at UC–Santa Barbara. Then, he talks with Scottish school teacher and blogger Craig McAllister about the big choice facing Scotland in September: Whether to declare independence from the United Kingdom. In his Spiel, Mike uses his holiday weekend to make the hard choices about un-assigning himself assigned reading. Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I am so over this situation, Peter. I am unbumble to find something real. You know, like someone

0:07.5

you can count on, someone who actually cares about what you think. I just want someone

0:12.5

who's ready for that long-term kind of love. Whether you're looking for your next boyfriend,

0:18.9

girlfriend, casual date or just someone who truly gets you, it's waiting for you unbumble.

0:25.5

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:31.2

It's Tuesday, May 27, 2014. From slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca. Liz Sly in the

0:41.3

Washington Post today wrote about a world event with big implications for all of us, but

0:45.6

I prefer the title that ran in Business Insider, which described the Washington Post article.

0:50.4

Here it is, here comes the Saudi Dynasty succession crisis. Now, we'd all be happier if

0:57.2

instead of Saudi Dynasty succession crisis, the word Santa Claus followed here comes. But

1:02.8

it doesn't. Let me catch you up on the Saudi Dynasty succession crisis. So the leader

1:07.4

of the House of Saud, King Abdul Aziz, Abin Saud, he founded Saudi Arabia. That's why

1:11.8

it's Saudi Arabia. Could have been Finkelstein Arabia if a different dude had founded it.

1:16.3

Anyway, the founder dies and next up is King Saud. Thank King Faisal. We're going through

1:19.8

all the first Kings offsprings, King Abdullah for the last nine years. But you know, Abdullah,

1:24.7

he won't live forever. He's 90 years old. He has to decide on a new leader and he has only

1:29.4

so many brothers to choose from. Okay, he has 35 brothers to choose from right now, 19

1:35.0

to choose from, 19 are still alive. But that is in fact so many brothers. He picks Prince

1:40.7

Mirkren. Mirkren is the youngest brother. He's British educated. He's battle tested. I

1:46.8

mean, I assume he's battle tested. He survived the nookies of 34 older brothers. So Mirkren

1:52.4

is named deputy crown prince. Wait, is there even such a thing as deputy crown prince?

1:58.4

Quote, there is no such thing as a deputy crown prince fumes one former Saudi official quoted

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