i'm gonna think about genie chance every day now
I’ve kind of fallen off The Daily train (no commute = no commute’tainment, as it turns out) but you really should listen to this one from last week about this Alaskan radio journalist + working mom named Genie Chance, and how she pulled some Balto-level heroics in 1964 in the aftermath of the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America. If you don’t have time for the whole thing, just listen to the first half hour (there is some good stuff about the sociology of communities during disasters, but personally I could do without the but what if time is the ultimate natural disaster zoom out at the end lol) and then if you have the connex, get in touch with Christina Hendricks because if she is already playing a super cool working mom with a lame car salesman husband why not make it a double??
Also if anyone has recommended reading on the role of radio journalism during disasters, please hmu!
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