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"Busted" #5: Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Poverty in America Edition
When reporting on poverty, the media fall into familiar traps and pundits make prescriptions that disregard the facts. So, in the fifth and final ins…
9 years, 2 months ago
"Busted" #4: When the Safety Net Doesn't Catch You
UPDATE: OTM has received numerous inquiries from listeners who want to help Margaret Smith. If you’d like to donate, she has set up a PayPal account …
9 years, 2 months ago
"Busted" #3: Rags to Riches
In the third installment of our series, "Busted: America's Poverty Myths," we take on one of our country's most fundamental notions: that America is …
9 years, 2 months ago
"Busted" #2: Who Deserves To Be Poor?
UPDATE: Since this series began, OTM has received numerous inquiries from listeners who want to help Carla Scott. If you’d like to donate, she has se…
9 years, 2 months ago
"Busted" #1: The Poverty Tour
Today, more than 45 million Americans live in poverty. The problem has been addressed countless times since the nation’s founding, but it persists, …
9 years, 2 months ago
The Game Has Changed
As tensions between the press and the president-elect continue to mount, a look at why some news outlets chose to publish a salacious but unverified …
9 years, 2 months ago
January Surprise
For weeks now, journalists have been aware of a dossier circulating among top officials and the media; it alleges among other things, that Russia has…
9 years, 2 months ago
No End In Sight
British journalist John Cantlie has been a prisoner of ISIS for more than four years. Throughout his captivity, he's been forced to act as a sort of …
9 years, 2 months ago
To Thine Own Self Be True
It's been four hundred years since the death of William Shakespeare, and the Bard is as popular as ever... and just as mysterious. For centuries, a w…
9 years, 2 months ago
Donald Trump is not Hitler
The Man in the High Castle, the Emmy Award winning TV series, imagines a world in which the Nazi’s won WWII. Set in the 1960s, the show blends actual…
9 years, 2 months ago