40 Acres and a Movie
Disney can’t change its problematic past. But can it make a new future with Marvel?
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April 8, 2021, 4:01 p.m. ET
Disney owns a piece of every living person’s childhood. Now it owns Marvel Studios, too. The co-hosts Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris look at depictions of racist tropes and stereotypes in Disney’s ever-expanding catalog. The company has made recent attempts to atone for its past. But can it move forward without repeating the same mistakes?
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Teyonah Parris portrayed Monica Rambeau in the 2021 Disney+ series “WandaVision.”Credit.Marvel Studios/Disney Plus
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The Year in Good News
Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by Luke Vander Ploeg, Asthaa Chaturvedi, Hans Buetow, Bianca Giaever and Sydney Harper; with help from Rachelle Bonja; and edited by Wendy Dorr
In a bleak year, our listeners offer some brightness from all over the world.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
michael barbaro
archived recording
You know, I don’t have to be the first one to say that 2020 was rough, but 2020 has been a really crazy year for everybody. There’s been a lot of really, really hard moments. But there’s been a lot of really beautiful ones, too. You asked if anything good has happened throughout 2020.
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Modern Love Podcast: What the Silence Said
Hosted by Daniel Jones and Miya Lee, produced by Hans Buetow and Kelly Prime, and edited by Sara Sarasohn and Wendy Dorr; music by Dan Powell; read by Jennifer Byrne and January LaVoy
Two marriages dissolve without a sound.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
jennifer byrne
miya lee
jennifer byrne
I never thought that I’d be like trying to approximate these feelings again for a podcast. Anyway, so OK
miya lee
jennifer byrne
All right. “Kim Jong-un wasn’t to blame. It turned out to be an employee error at the Hawaii Emergency Management Services that triggered a false North Korean missile alarm sent to those in the state, including my husband. He and his colleagues at the medical conference stopped discussing ocular herpes and took shelter. For 38 minutes, they faced their own imminent deaths.
michael barbaro
archived recording (boris johnson)
When the science changes, we must change our response. When the virus changes its method of attack, we must change our method of defense.
michael barbaro
In a dramatic move, Britain locked down the greater London area over the weekend, citing the out of control transmission of a new variation of the coronavirus.
archived recording (boris johnson)
Residents in those areas must stay at home, apart from limited exemptions set out in law. Non-essential retail, indoor gyms and leisure facilities, and personal care services must close.
michael barbaro
In a speech on Saturday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the new variation may be 70 percent more transmissible than the original and would require major sacrifices during the holiday season.
The
New York Times is trying to do damage control about the multiple failures of its star Jihadist Terrorism reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, but its efforts to clean up the mess are failing. The paper just announced it had completed a 2-month internal investigation into “Caliphate,” its sensationalist, breathless, award-winning podcast that had been downloaded by millions, and it found that the 12-part series “did not meet the standards for
Times journalism.”
The
Times confirmed that the central character of “Caliphate,” Shehroze Chaudhry, a Canadian who said he joined ISIS in Syria and graphically testified that he personally murdered captives, had in fact made up his entire story.