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On the Media

"We Are Putting Out A Damn Paper"

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few years, the Capital Gazette has faced existential threats on multiple fronts — from a newsroom shooting to layoffs and corporate buyouts.

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0:00.0

On this week's on the media, we remember the mass shooting at the Capitol Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, from the day of...

0:09.0

I mean, I remember I was working at my desk when I heard the shots.

0:13.5

I immediately knew something once I heard that first loud crash, and I just immediately hit the deck.

0:21.2

This is going to change everything.

0:22.6

Everything is different now.

0:24.3

And I don't want everything to be different.

0:26.3

Through the aftermath.

0:28.1

My whole purpose in this has been to make the paper survive,

0:31.5

and it's not the paper it was two years ago.

0:34.7

We could bounce back from a mess shooting,

0:39.4

but I do not know if we can survive corporate ownership.

0:45.7

On Mayhem's third anniversary,

0:48.3

an intimate portrait of a newspaper staff,

0:51.1

the grievous loss it overcame,

0:53.1

and the one it may not.

0:56.1

Coming up after this.

1:00.2

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:03.8

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

1:05.4

On Wednesday, jury's selection began in the trial for the man who pleaded guilty, but not criminally

1:12.4

responsible for reasons of insanity, to killing five people at a newspaper in Maryland three

1:18.5

years ago. This coming week also marks the anniversary of that terrible day.

1:23.7

The breaking news tonight in America is once again heartbreaking.

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