Social media loops, athlete protests, Wall Street harassment; pet threat; Andy Borowitz

Episode 1 Retro Report on PBS

Premiered October 07, 2019
Episode 1

Social media’s addictive power is by design. Colin Kaepernick’s protest has ties to 1968. Women on Wall Street fought harassment decades before #MeToo.  Pythons threaten the Everglades. Andy Borowitz wants to treat political ads like cigarettes.

About the Program

Retro Report on PBS

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.

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