A memorial at the Place de Republique in Paris for victims of last week's attacks. Credit: Roberto Maldeno / Flickr Creative Commons
The Digital News Industrial Complex has already manufactured a product line from the raw material of the Paris terror attacks.
This edition of The Scrum—recorded mid-week and released on the one-week anniversary of the attacks—is an attempt to go beyond the commodified news narrative.
To that end, Peter Kadzis of WGBHNews.org sat down with security expert Juliette Kayyem (of the Security Mom podcast) and veteran foreign correspondent Charlie Sennott (head of The Ground Truth Project) to cut through the noise and explain long-term significance of events.
In the midst of this, things got complicated, the news exploded that the Bay State's Republican Governor, Charlie Baker, was in the whirlwind of negativity that enveloped the issue of Syrian refugees.
Reilly and Kadzis wrestle with those headlines.