plan you can keep it. you sell ads on the channel and support yourself that way. i got my own channel on u tube. supported my adses a lot of music i have made in the past is for sale. so far so good. i get to put myself in odd situations like the white house pressroom and flying on the back of the eagle and stuff like that and have an excuse. i am glad you do. thank you, remi. big story since the media got utterly wrong. we have word of an explosion. the tijuana brawley case abducted and raped 6 white men. there are certain things that people want to believe.
cocaine. the third bias is getting the story quickly, right? not waiting and saying here s a limited story, wait six months and see if anything comes of it. but just the mispersisted. this is 30 years later. john: people think crack babies were permanently damaged. and you are pretty early on as the new research was coming, did a terrific piece. john: thank you, i will be self-serving. glad you mentioned that, i exposed this in one of my specials on junk science. 15 years ago newspapers like rolling stone told us children born to crack addicted mothers were like no others. john: they lacked part of the brain that made them human, that would make them wild, dangerous, oblivious to ofection. they were like no others. it was disgusting and thank goodness for claire coal, the scientist who blew the whistle. people hear something three times they think it s true. that s what we re hopefully
interviewing me. he did. how many babies who had been exposed to crack did he study? only 23. it was a limited study. he saw the tremoring babies and high pitched cries he thought it was a sign of major damage it turned out to be nothing of the sort. these babies all developed in mostly normal ways. fetal alcohol syndrome seems to be much worse. alcohol is worse than crack. much worst. threw there were real implications to this. the story became a phenomenon and women were incarcerated for having cocaine in their bloodstream. babies were deemed unadoptable because they were crack babies. it shows the powers of the false narrative. they fit both the left and the right. the left is demonized cocaine and the left wanted more money
if the story turn out not to be true later, so what, everyone moved onto the next scary story. that s why it s good there s a media organization called retroreport that reveals media hype of the past. we have word now of an explosion in the united states this year at least 100,000 crack babies will be born. the tijuana brawley case abducted and raped by six men. hard to get rid of those. john: the executive producer of retroreport is kyra darnton, welcome. why do do you this? we like to think that retroreport is a counterbalance to the 24-7 news cycle, as the pace of the news is so quick, you never get to see the end of the story. did predictions pan out? were promises kept? we re building an online living
middle east the world today is less violent than it used to be. here s a graph of deaths from war. also people are healthier than ever and more tolerant. let s not underestimate that. life has improved for blacks, gays and women. check out this story, for and against wife beating. most of the women weather to beat your wife is the latest controversy. dr. waugh says beat her. it is well-known women love most the men who are cruel to them. today we consider that harmful but how would a reporter cover that change in attitude. maybe today in pittsburgh 6 people changed their opinion about wife beating. that s crazy. the reporter wouldn t know who they were. even if he did these gradual changes are not what people consider news. news is broken.