Let’s Review #3 — Your attention is a commodity.

We have many feelings and responses to current events around acts of discrimination and wack behavior. We both work in public radio. Jenn is a news host and Kim is a social media producer. We both, as journalism professionals, have certain ethics we need to observe in our work.

But what about in our personal lives? How do we align our professional and personal beliefs when we encounter news and/or views that are controversial?

This is what Jenn wants to do to her computer, but because she is a lady and citizen, she does not.

Meanwhile, Kim be all…

We review…

In this episode of Let’s Review, Jenn & Kim debate the merits of checking in and checking out on current events. We have different perspectives on the social, political, and psychic benefits and costs of being aware.

Is there a responsibility to be informed about every racist, sexist, other -ist, story in the world or is it ok to just check out sometimes?

What’s your criteria for engaging, in an age of information overload?

What are some approaches to checking in & checking out on social media?

Our guest for this episode is…wait for it…US, your hosts! How do you deal with information/discrimination overload? Listen and find out how we cope…or don’t cope! As Amy Winehouse would say, “What kind of f*ckery is this?”

Featured in this episode…

And because anytime you can have Jay Smooth doing his smart self…