Episode 162 - Investigative Journalism Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

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 The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones Hidden Figures: Young Readers’ Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Links, Articles, and Things
The Librarian Alignment chart Jorts the Cat Episode 080 - True Crime The Unlikely Rise of the French Tacos Ed Yong His COVID stories in The Atlantic Episode 145 - Anthropology Non-Fiction Notes from America The Wolf Pack of White Nationalism Hillary Clinton Suggested Breaking Up the Big Banks Won’t End Racism and Sexism. Is She Right? How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul “kind of a bummer to have been born at the very end of the Fuck Around century just to live the rest of my life in the Find Out century” (Twitter, 2021-02-21) The Invisible Substrate of Information Science MLM: Men Loving Men: Men who have sex with men (Wikipedia) Multi-level marketing (Wikipedia) Marxism–Leninism–Maoism (Wikipedia) Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs “Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus” (Twitter, 2021-11-08