The Slow Newscast
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The Slow Newscast from Tortoise takes the news slowly. We investigate, and every week we focus on stories that really matter in the UK and around the world. From the war in Ukraine, the downfall of Boris Johnson, to true crime and injustice and real life mysteries, The Slow Newscast team is devoted to narrative investigations. From a startup newsroom with a different approach to journalism. For the premium Tortoise listening experience, curated by our journalists, download the free Tortoise audio app. For early and ad-free access, subscribe to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts. If you’d like to further support slow journalism and help us build a different kind of newsroom, do consider donating to Tortoise at tortoisemedia.com/support-us. Your contributions allow us to investigate, campaign and explore, and to build a newsroom that is responsible and sustainable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hunt for next supreme leader
30 Sept
First impressions matter on accuracy: I stopped listening in first few minutes when Claudia described late Iranian president Raisi as Iranian prime minister
The Festival Fossil Fuel Fiasco
6 Oct
This episode could have more accurately been titled “Protest is fine so long as it doesn’t affect me or my comfort in any way possible”. What an absurdly biased way to discuss this series of events. The literati and media classes’ reporting of this at the time was tone deaf and entirely removed from the broader context in which the campaigners were operating. This episode manages to distill that same liberal conceit that any challenge to the status quo that requires some introspection is simply naïveté, a lack of critical thinking, and self-interestedness on behalf of the protesters. This sort of lassez-faire attitude to the ethical health of our society and how such lack of care directly affects the material conditions of local and international communities as a whole. This is how we end up with live-streamed eco/genocide unchallenged by those handling the levers of power. This sense of entitlement to not be asked to consider the reality of those outside our immediate bubble is how we’re numbed into doing nothing. And this episode shills for exactly that. When Tortoise is lauded for considered and careful reporting, this episode is and the attitudes it exposes and legitimises is abysmal.
The Sackler Family
14 May
I have been following this story since I saw the documentary film All The Beauty and The Bloodshed. Your podcast today was further enlightening about this tragic and disgraceful episode. I would like to think that members of the Sackler family would go to prison for what they did under the auspices of their company, I doubt they will and your podcast informs us why that is unlikely. Thank you to all involved in the making of this podcast.
Neil Gaiman series
27 Aug
Poor journalism. Totally biased despite constantly referring to gray areas. Nothing to do with public interest, just surfing the me-too movement in the most exploitative way. Drawing outrageous conclusions and using them as premises. Just made me feel sorry for Neil Gaiman (and I’m a woman!).
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- CreatorTortoise Media
- Years Active2019 - 2024
- Episodes317
- RatingExplicit
- Copyright© 2019-2020 Tortoise Media
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- ProviderTortoise Media Ltd