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Retro Report on PBS
How Napster Stirred Up Entertainment
After Napster, many consumers got used to media on demand. There was no turning back.
Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator
Retro Report makes sense of the present by revealing the past. Join journalists Celeste Headlee and Masud Olufani as they connect the present to the past through four distinct and varied stories, and New Yorker humorist Andy Borowitz adds his signature wit.
Correcting the Myth of the Superpredator
Season 1 Episode 8 | 10m 27s | CC
States are reconsidering life prison sentences of people who were given mandatory life terms as juveniles – a practice since ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. At the time, in the 1990s, a handful of researchers inspired panic with a dire but flawed prediction: the imminent arrival of a new breed of remorseless teen killers, so-called superpredators.
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