podcasts

The B Section: Remember When The Supreme Court was a Thing?

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This story is bananas: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/25/alito-flag-martha-ann-washington-post/  It’s hard to know where to start with this, but starting with how this story demonstrates the failure of local news seems like a good place to jump in.   OK, fine, don’t click the link. This is about Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house that had an upside-down U.S. flag … Read more

The Roundup: The West Wing, Alexander Chee and a Journalist’s Role

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It’s time to dust this blog off! Looking back at my previous entries, it looks like I dropped off “The West Wing.” I had been watching it, but man, between the 9/11 episode to start the third season and Mrs. Landingham dying at the end of season 2, I needed a break. I was watching … Read more

Of course I listened to “S-town.”

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What do you do when your source … well, stops cooperating?  At some point, that’s the question the producers and reporter involved with “S-town” had to tackle. It’s their resolution that gives me some unease. It’s hard to recommend this podcast, because I have questions about this very point. I was telling my husband about … Read more