Slow Burn
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In Slow Burn’s 10th season, host Josh Levin takes you back to a crucial inflection point in American history: the moment between 2000 and 2004 when Fox News first surged to power and a whole bunch of people rose up to try and stop it.You’ll hear from the hosts, reporters, and producers who built Fox News, many who’ve never spoken publicly. You’ll also hear from Fox’s biggest antagonists—the political operatives, journalists, and comedians who attacked it, investigated it, and tried to mock it into submission. And you’ll hear from Fox’s victims, who are still coming to terms with how a cable news channel upended their lives. Want more Slow Burn? Join Slate Plus to immediately access all past seasons and episodes of Slow Burn (and your other favorite Slate podcasts) completely ad-free. Plus, you’ll unlock subscriber-exclusive bonus episodes that bring you behind-the-scenes on the making of the show. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Subscribe” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Season 9: Gays Against Briggs A nationwide moral panic, a California legislator who rode the anti-gay wave, and the LGBTQ+ people who stepped up and came out to try and stop him. Season 8: Becoming Justice Thomas Where Clarence Thomas came from, how he rose to power, and how he’s brought the rest of us along with him, whether we like it or not. Winner of the Podcast of the Year at the 2024 Ambies Awards. Season 7: Roe v. Wade The women who fought for legal abortion, the activists who pushed back, and the justices who thought they could solve the issue for good. Winner of Apple Podcasts Show of the Year in 2022. Season 6: The L.A. Riots How decades of police brutality, a broken justice system, and a video tape set off six days of unrest in Los Angeles. Season 5: The Road to the Iraq War Eighteen months after 9/11, the United States invaded a country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Who’s to blame? And was there any way to stop it? Season 4: David Duke America’s most famous white supremacist came within a runoff of controlling Louisiana. How did David Duke rise to power? And what did it take to stop him? Season 3: Biggie and Tupac How is it that two of the most famous performers in the world were murdered within a year of each other—and their killings were never solved? Season 2: The Clinton Impeachment A reexamination of the scandals that nearly destroyed the 42nd president and forever changed the life of a former White House intern. Season 1: Watergate What did it feel like to live through the scandal that brought down President Nixon?
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A Fascinating Telling of the History of Fox
10/17/2024
I am old enough to have lived through all of this history, and yet hearing it told through the people working at Fox in its early days is blowing my mind. At first, I was worried that thinking about politics during the election would stress me out, but I’m finding it’s just…explaining a lot. Anyway, it’s riveting.
Smear job
12/26/2024
As an avid consumer of the news media (all networks) I was curious about how the Fox News story would be presented. Sadly it’s not the unbiased bio it pretends to be but actually a hit piece against Fox masquerading as a bio. Here’s just one example: in the first episode the host makes several mentions about how there’s a distinction between the daytime news reporting and the evening opinion shows, but later recounts the story of how Sean Hannity (evening opinion host) quips to a colleague on election night that “…our guy might win this” while referring to George W Bush. The inference made by the podcast host is that this is evidence of a bias at the network across the board (favoring republicans), even though he’d already established that opinion hosts are disconnected from the news bureau. There are many more examples of the same type of shady, biased storytelling. If you’re just looking for confirmation bias and already don’t like Fox News, you’ll love this. But if you’re looking for an honest recounting of the early days at Fox…this ain’t it.
Why is this not a Slow Burn feed ?
12/04/2024
This feed pushes other Slate podcasts on the regular.
Justice for All
11/24/2024
Interesting story. How about you do one and title it "Fall of the Legacy Media."
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