How journalists report on government shutdowns
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As part of a new feature, Slate staff writer Joshua Keating takes on the U.S. government shutdown using "the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries."
Keating joins The Daily Circuit to discuss how American journalists report on similar issues abroad and what that says about our current political situation.
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