Episode 163 - Podcasts

This episode we’re talking about Investigative Journalism! We talk about what makes something journalism, when we don’t read articles, enjoying vs. appreciated media, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to...)

• Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love by Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman
• Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump by Sarah Posner, narrated by Cassandra Campbell
• The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer by Nicholas Shaxson
  • "The overall results of this sea change from progressive economics toward identity politics has been an enduring one, and it was crystallized by Hillary Clinton in an election rally speech in 2016. "If we broke up the big banks tomorrow," she shouted, "Would that end racism?" "No!” Her audience replied. "Would that end Sexism?" No!" Although she did say she would tackle the banks if they misbehaved, hers was a pro-big bank message, couched as something progressive.”
• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs by John Pilger
  • Murrow on McCarthy (YouTube)
• Dreamland (YA Edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
• The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael
• Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb by Charles Bowden and Nick Schou
• The Disappearing Act by Florence de Changy

Other Media We Mentioned

• The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster
• Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church by The Boston Globe
• Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman
• Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
• Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (Wikipedia)
• Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson
  • Also published as Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens
• Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson
• Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM by Sarah Berman