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The Daily Show has a large fact-checking team, issues retractions when wrong, and a great Fresh Air episode covers this with a producer.
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Fresh Air
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Terry Gross' Fresh Air interview with Ralph Stanley is worth hearing: he speaks Appalachian English, nearly identical to Ozark dialect.
@mikelevins
Remembering Eva Marie Saint / 'Interview with the Vampire' turns 50
with Ralph Stanley
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Great interview with Carrie as she promoted her memoir; she comes across as funny, caring, and interesting. Worth listening to.
@ilamont
Playwright Anna Deavere Smith turns to her family’s history for inspiration
with Carrie Fisher
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An excellent but depressing Fresh Air episode on the future of wild fish, with Paul Greenberg.
@jonahx
Best Of: George Clooney / Costume Designer Paul Tazewell
with Paul Greenberg
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This podcast from NPR's Fresh Air is also a good overview of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and AIG bailout
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Terry Gross's truly masterful interviews on Fresh Air are dramatically better than Charlie Rose's.
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Strongly recommends listening to Steve Silberman on Fresh Air, covering autism's heritability and how its diagnosis was artificially narrow for decades.
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Fresh Air's interview turns out best almost every time when comparing a guest's back-to-back interviews, because Terry Gross prepares, listens, and lets guests explain themselves.
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A Fresh Air episode about the NRA is pretty horrifying, showing how it has its elected representatives under its thumb.
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A penetrating, enlightening interview on how technology is affecting the modern mating game, including how social media leaves a paper trail for affairs.
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Fresh Air did a great long-form report summarizing how the administration obstructed and worsened the crisis; it's worth a listen.
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A related Fresh Air episode on how COVID-19 became a windfall for the ultra-rich; interesting, though the solutions discussion is hand-wavy.
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Xinjiang is the laboratory for these new surveillance technologies; the Fresh Air episode on China's surveillance state is worth hearing.
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Interesting listen: Fresh Air's interview with former gun industry marketing exec Ryan Busse on the industry's role in the culture wars.
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Terry Gross is one of the best that has ever lived on radio, and the commenter says they love her and respect her greatly.
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I listen to Marketplace and Fresh Air regularly.
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