Whistleblowers, the Legacy of Lynching, and Vintage Jon Stewart

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🗓️ 13 February 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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An exploration of the term “whistleblower”, from its origins as a sports reference to its current status as a moral mantle. Also, a farewell to venerable media satirist Jon Stewart.

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0:00.0	All the big ideas seem to be on the small screen.
0:05.7	I just want to be able to program them and watch them on a platform of my choosing.
0:11.5	Is that too much for a boy to ask?
0:14.0	Journalist friend, singular human, David Carr.
0:18.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:20.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:23.6	Whistleblowers nowadays are heralded in the media as heroes. That wasn't always the case.
0:29.1	The whistleblower is not liked. We have invidious terms for him. He is a fink or a stool pigeon,
0:35.7	a squealer, or an informer, or he rats on his employer.
0:39.8	Also, before John Stewart was the king of fake news, his career seemed a little stalled.
0:45.2	Then came the Daily Show.
0:47.0	Hey, it looks like you have a real job.
0:50.0	Huh?
0:50.9	That thing with Benegans came through?
0:54.4	There's more coming up after this.
1:01.4	From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media.
1:05.7	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:06.9	And I'm Brooke Ladstone.
1:08.6	John Kiriaku, a 14-year CIA veteran, left prison last week to serve the last three months of his two-and-a-half-year sentence under house arrest.
1:19.3	He says he landed in the clink because in a 2007 ABC News interview, he had acknowledged the CIA's use of waterboarding, which the agency had not
1:29.2	officially confirmed. But at that time, even though he had no firsthand knowledge of the practice,
1:35.8	he said it worked on a captive named Zabeda, and he wasn't exactly condemning it.
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