Watching the TV News Will Make You Paranoid
Often formatted to stoke fear and keep audiences from flipping channels, broadcast news is heavy on soundbites and light on context.
Andrea Grimes
contributor
Andrea Grimes is a feminist journalist and reluctant Texpat living in the Bay Area. She is the executive producer of Traitor Radio, a storytelling podcast for the resistance, and she holds a master’s degree in stand-up comedy from the University of Texas. (Seriously.) Her investigations and analyses have appeared in the Texas Observer, Rolling Stone, Rewire, Women’s Review of Books, Salon, Cosmo, Bitch, Ms., and Jezebel, among other publications. When she isn’t writing, recording, or yell-tweeting, she can be found refining her expertise in drinking Bloody Marys on sunny patios.
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