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Podcast: Escape From Plan A
Episode: Ep. 74: Media Exploitation Of Violence Against Asian Women
Description: Jess and Diana discuss how the media often covers stories of violence against Asian women in lurid and exoticizing fashion, as if to titillate old Western curiosities about Asian female submissiveness and sexuality.
Intro/Outro Music: "Clouds" by Claude Debussy
Intro Voice Track: ABC News covering the murder of Ying Ying Zhang (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bif_mse0_0&t=36s)
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REFERENCED RESOURCES:
Exploitative reporting on Yang Song's suicide: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/11/nyregion/sex-workers-massage-parlor.html
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2018/an-interview-with-dan-barry-the-writer-of-the-nyts-the-case-of-jane-doe-ponytail/
Respectful reporting on Yang Song by The Appeal: https://theappeal.org...