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Title: Seeing Is Believing

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Dahlia Lithwick, Richard Andrews, William Ruckelshaus, Heidi Cullen, Dan Engber

Format: Original Recording

Length: 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-13-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1960s, pollution was a visible, visceral problem, and public pressure led a Republican president to create the Environmental Protection Agency. Now, the GOP wants to slash the agency's budget and roll back "burdensome" environmental regulations. The story of how the environment went from bipartisan issue to political battleground.

Also, journalists and politicians have long avoided drawing a straight line between natural disasters and climate change. How that's changing, thanks to new "extreme weather attribution" science. And, the myth of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a usefulyet misleadingcontainer for our collective anxieties about the planet.

Plus, President Trumps new ban on travelers from Muslim-majority countries was released with little fanfareintentionally. What the optics tell us, and what the law tells us.

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Title: When the Press Sues Over "Fake News"

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Jay Seaton

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-08-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Fake news. What began as a description of utterly false articles, fabricated for political advantage or profit, was immediately co-opted by Donald Trump to attack any story or opinion piece in the mainstream media that has the temerity to correct him. Back in November, famed First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams said that in the age of Trump the press should consider a form of defense it has long avoided: suing its opponents for libel.

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a small paper in Colorado, may act on that advice. Accused by a Colorado state senator of publishing fake news, Jay Seaton, the paper's publisher, has threatened to retaliate with a libel suit, the very legal weapon that news organizations have historically fended off. Bob speaks with Seaton about this new strategy and how it could backfire on the rest of the media.

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Title: Follow the Money

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Matthew Rosenberg, Alexey Kovalev, Yevhen Fedchenko, Jed Shugerman, Zephyr Teachout

Format: Original Recording

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-06-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

As the Trump-Russia saga continues to unfold, how the Obama administration spent its final days scrambling to preserve evidence of Russian interference in the election. Also, the old Soviet-era art of "kremlinology" is back but does it really help us understand what Putin is thinking? Plus, a potential key to unveiling Trumps tax returns, how our understanding of corruption has strayed from the vision of the founders, and more.

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Title: This Gene Was Edited By Brooke

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Kevin Esvelt, Gregory Pence

Format: Original Recording

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-02-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

CRISPR is a new technology that enables scientists to quickly alter the genetic makeup of the entire population of a species. It's so powerful that just one genetically-modified mosquito could eradicate malaria. It's so easy to do that a grad student could (accidentally) enact these global ecological changes from their kitchen. It's also under-regulated. Under science's current culture of secrecy, ensuring that scientists are taking necessary precautions with gene-drive research is next to impossible, says CRISPR innovator Kevin Esvelt. Writing in Nature last summer, Esvelt urged the scientific community to open all experiments to public scrutiny, beginning with the revolutionary and potentially world-changing gene-editing research he helped advance.

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Title: Smoke & Handcuffs

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Brian Stelter, Muzaffar Chishti, Daniel Denvir, Deepak Gupta

Format: Original Recording

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

With a president who would rather watch TV than receive intelligence briefings, CNNs Brian Stelter helps unpack the symbiotic relationship between Fox News and the White House. Plus, whether Trumps new guidelines for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants are more PR than sound policy, how the term sanctuary cities may oversell how much safety is actually provided, and the Supreme Court sheds light on violence at the US border. Also, a former FEC Commissioner explains why the Commission has ceased to function as intended.

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Title: Unlikely Roommates: A Holocaust Survivor and Grandchild of Nazis Share a Home in California

Author: Sasha Khokha

Narrator: Jeb Sharp

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: PRI's The World

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Its not just the six-decade age gap that sets these roomies apart.

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Title: The Word 'Refugee' Has a Surprising Origin

Author: Leo Hornak

Narrator: Marco Werman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-22-17

Publisher: PRI's The World

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

It has its roots in 17th-century France, when a huge influx of French migrants known as "Huguenots" left their country.

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Title: Who Is H.R. McMaster? 'Play Nice' Says EPA's New Chief, Oldies on Bulgaria Radio

Author: Jeb Sharp

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-21-17

Publisher: PRI's The World

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Today we learn more about the man chosen by President Donald Trump to be his next national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Plus, how Morocco is betting big on solar energy. And, why people in Bulgaria are listening to more pre-war music on the radio.

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Title: Leak State

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield, Marcy Wheeler, Michael J. Glennon, Jed Shugerman, Lisa Mascaro, Peter Maass, John Patrick Leary

Format: Original Recording

Length: 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-20-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Republicans decry the leakers; Democrats applaud them...oh, how the tables have turned. How to make sense of the Flynn affair and revelations about the Trump team's communications with Russia. Plus, the steady stream of information from within the government has the media debating the power of the so-called Deep State invisible officials pulling the strings. Also, deploying the word "treason" with care, what Slobodan Miloevi teaches us about Donald Trump, and what Hugo Chávez does not.

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Title: Out Like Flynn

Author: Brooke Gladstone, Bob Garfield

Format: Original Recording

Length: 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-15-17

Publisher: On the Media, WNYC Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

In response to scandals large and small, first the Trump campaign and now the Trump White House has relied on the fact that each successive lie or outrage will be washed over by the next and the next. And it's worked. Until now. Bob ponders whether this week's resignation of General Flynn from his position as National Security Adviser has thrown the White House media machine (momentarily) off its axis.