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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 ....
Building at retroreport is a place to counteract those. john: i hope so. another scare story where the media went nuts. superpredators. who is so impulsive. so remorses that will he can kill, rape, maim without giving it a second thought. this country went into a moral panic over superpredators. they made it up. i did sound alarm and used strong language in terms of what might happen if we didn t react quickly. superpredator originated from inmate. these kids are stone cold predator. superpredator. predator. predator. john: one throwaway line from an inmate and it was a theme. once they latched onto superpredator, it exploded because it s this evocative, terrifying word, superpredator, ....
Library of modern news events where can you come to the website and interact with the stories and really learn about, get new context and perspective both for what happened then and what they mean for us today. john: the retroreport took a scare at a scare story that frightened everyone, crack babies. in the 1980s, the media sounded alarm that a new drug, crack cocaine was taking over american cities and had devastating affect on pregnant women and newborns. within days we were getting calls from media all over the country and started hearing the term crack babies. the number of babies born addicted has risen 500%. these children were the most expensive babies born in america are going to overwhelm every social service. threatens to create an entirely new underclass of children unable to care for themselves. i had lots of people interviewing me. ....