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The weekly newsletter from On the Media View this email in your browser Onward.  Listen To The Latest Show: How Quickly We Forget [ In Case You Missed It ] The 65 Million Stories We Choose Not to Tell Last week, New Yorker staff writer Masha Gessen joined us to discuss a modest proposal of hers: What if, just for one day, we in the media — every single one of us — covered only immigration stories? Could that begin to imply to the public the scale of the crisis of displaced people around the world? Could that be a first step toward healing a global body politic that rejects 65 million people? Please don't miss this conversation. [ Listen To This ] Let the People Decide On the heels of another week of Brexit controversy, revisit this conversation with professor Matt Qvotrup author of the book Referendums and Ethnic Conflict, and editor of an essay collection called Referendums Around the World. Where did the current trend come from? And what does it mean for people to take government into their own hands? Listen to it here. [ Check This Out ] Dear tech companies, I don't want to see pregnancy ads after my child was stillborn This week Washington Post video editor Gillian Brockell posted an open letter about the heartbreaking impact of seeing ad after ad for parents of newborns right after her baby died. Why did these images and marketing promotions continue to haunt her on her social media profiles? The Washington Post published the difficult but eye-opening piece with updates. Read it here. [ Podcast Extra ] Three Years for Michael Cohen Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for financial crimes and for lying to Congress. In rendering the sentence,  Judge William H. Pauley said Cohen's crimes were "motivated by personal greed and ambition." In this podcast extra, we turn to our colleagues at the Trump Inc. podcast — an open investigation from a team of ProPublica and WNYC journalists — for help picking apart this story's threads. Give it a listen — they just won a fancy DuPont award, after all! [ Coming Up... ] When the next pandemic comes, who will Americans trust?  Thanks for listening, and for reading. We love feedback, so please contact us with any questions or comments. We're busy, but we read them all, promise.  DONATE TO OTM

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