News Brief: Top 10 Worst Covid Crisis Takes (So Far)
Added 2020-03-29 19:49:35 +0000 UTCAfter over 100 episodes, scores of News Briefs, and almost three years of content production, Citations Needed has finally done it: reduced itself to a listicle. On this News Brief, we examine the top ten worst COVID-19 takes to date (not including the celebrity 'Imagine' video). Proceed with caution.
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Show Notes
Republicans Are Worried Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Is Too Generous to the Unemployed
Bess Levin | March 25, 2020 | Vanity Fair
Frank Rich | March 26, 2020 | New York Intelligencer
The GOP Is Exploiting Fears of Rising Suicides to Protect Wall Street Profits
Sarah Lazare | March 26, 2020 | In These Times
A Plan to Get America Back to Work
Thomas Friedman | Mach 22, 2020 | The New York Times
Nick Pinto | March 25, 2020 | The Intercept
House Lawmakers Unveil Resolution Blaming China For The Coronavirus
Jennifer Bendery | | March 24, 2020 | Huffington Post
A viral plea to let grandparents sacrifice themselves captures a truth about Trump
Greg Sargent | March 24, 2020 | The Washington Post
U.S. military emits more CO2 than most countries
Kate Yoder | June 12, 2019 | Grist
Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says
Tess Riley | July 10, 2017 | The Guardian
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References
The Cognitive Bias That Makes Us Panic About Coronavirus
Cass R. Sunstein | February 28, 2020 | Bloomberg
Essay: On the Divergent American Reactions to Terrorism and Climate Change (Goldstein Effect article)
Cass R. Sunstein | 2007 | University of Chicago Law School Chicago Unbound
For Now, Pay Workers to Stay Home
Edward Glaeser | March 23, 2020 | The Wall Street Journal
John Stossel | March 18, 2020 | Stossel TV
Quentin Fottrell | March 29, 2020 | MarketMatch
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Comments
Me too!
2020-05-01 21:27:27 +0000 UTChi guys, I am looking for a good suplement to CN. anything good in the left wing podcast on history of ideas/philophy/politics persuasion? Thank you
2020-04-05 23:03:59 +0000 UTCLooking at graphs for Wuhan compared to EU countries, and given China has less GDP per capita, and had the least warning about ncov-19, it seems like China did as good or better than EU countries in this area. Also Winnie de Poe, how can he be bad? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Winnie+de+Poe&t=h_&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images
Jasper
2020-04-02 00:24:32 +0000 UTCWould love to have an episode to point people to re: ecofascism as I see it constantly having to be called out on social media during this crisis. I think it's definitely "common knowledge" for people of a certain age - I know I read 'Ishmael' by Daniel Quinn when I was a teenager in the 90s and remember tons of people from the left making arguments against overpopulation back then.
Patrick ODonnell
2020-03-31 18:27:31 +0000 UTCHa! Nevermind, looks like y'all already did. My bad.
2020-03-30 23:47:46 +0000 UTCNot to be presumptuous, but I'd really appreciate if you could make this particular news brief open to all. Especially since the last few minutes really hammer home what I think so many of us are thinking/feeling.
2020-03-30 23:46:38 +0000 UTCYes it looks like the WSJ changed the headline on Glaeser's sociopathy
Eoin O'Mahony
2020-03-30 14:42:05 +0000 UTCQuit the China apologism. The CCP is going to rule the world when coronavirus clears. It doesn't need your help.
Coupcumber
2020-03-30 02:55:39 +0000 UTCNot true: episodes 70 and 71 was a two-part listicle on anodyne foreign policy speak. It was great to listen to, as is this. Don't beat yourselves up x
Tom Kelly
2020-03-29 21:24:37 +0000 UTC
