Hey, you know, make a deal with Securists. Let us read the New Yorker. Let us read the Atlantic.

An incarcerated person beseeches the media to cut a deal with the prison industrial complex.

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

amid the many words used in the coverage of

incarcerated people, the word inmate can sting the worse. That word can be read as the N-word,

actually. Plus, a new book about three women journalists of the Vietnam War, each combating

more than they faced on the front. But but there too, they created rules for themselves that enabled them to do what they needed to do.

The photograph has to capture their eyes. She uses her teeny little body, like an acrobat, crawls in the mud and gets those eyes. Stick around.

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

This week, we reached the 100th day of the Biden presidency, marking the

occasion his first address to a joint session of Congress. Throughout our history, presidents have

come to this chamber to speak to Congress, to the nation, and to the world, to declare war, to celebrate peace, to announce new plans and

possibilities.

This is what Joe Biden ran on, big, positive, mostly progressive aspirations, but he also ran

on something more visceral, moral indignation.

Donald Trump has corrupted the soul of this country.

Donald Trump has pummeled the middle class.

Donald Trump has embraced dictators and poked his thumb in the eye of our allies.

Donald Trump is a disaster, and he knows it and he knows I'm going to be able to point it out.

Point it out and root it out. It's a simple directive hard to implement.

The great undoing of any predecessor's policies takes time, and while the Trump White House was not

notable for legislation, it did radically change what we expect from its occupant.

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