Warring Narratives Around UNRWA. Plus, Media Bets on Sports Gambling

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

President Joe Biden is calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as famine looms. On this week’s On the Media, hear how warring media narratives have jeopardized UNRWA, the largest humanitarian aid organization in the region. Plus, what the explosion in sports gambling means for the future of sports journalism.

1. Mehul Srivastava [@MehulAtLarge], Financial Times correspondent, and Chris Van Hollen [@ChrisVanHollen], US Senator from Maryland, on the warring media narratives around UNRWA. Listen.

2. Lex Takkenberg [@LTakkenberg], humanitarian law expert and a former Chief of Ethics for UNRWA, on the lessons to be learned from the agency's founding and its predecessor, the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine. Listen.

3. OTM producer Rebecca Clark-Callender [@Rebecca_CC_] explores how sports media and the gambling industry's relationship keeps evolving, featuring: Brian Moritz [@bpmoritz], sports media scholar at St. Bonaventure University, Danny Funt [@dannyfunt], reporter and contributor to the Washington Post, and Albert Chen, author of Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America. Listen.

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0:00.0	Seven aid workers just trying to feed the hungry were killed.
0:04.2	The IDF strike on a convoy of aid workers in Gaza this week has thrown a food crisis into
0:10.1	overtry. It's an incredibly unsafe environment. Agencies can't trust that
0:14.7	their employees will be safe. Now President Biden is urging a ceasefire. From
0:19.5	WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Michael Lohanger.
0:23.7	As famine looms, how have warring media narratives
0:26.9	threatened UNRWA, Gaza's most important source of aid?
0:30.1	I asked a US senator.
0:31.5	I have looked at the US intelligence on them and my interpretation is that that claim has been totally overblown.
0:41.0	Plus, sports media reckons with its gambling addiction. People who
0:46.1	gamble are like your best readers, right? They care about everything. What is
0:51.0	a gambler's edge? It's information? It's all coming up after this.
1:00.0	Hi, it's me, Katia, EP on the media.
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