Episode description

Advocate for the right to housing, Jordan van den Berg, aka Purple Pingers, joins Jess and Rachel to talk about how the media have responded to his recent campaign to create a database of empty and vacant homes in both Australia and the US. 

Together they explore how the media engage with concepts to which they are generally foreign to due to issues of class representation in the newsroom and ask why we only see issues in the media which have begun to personally impact the journalists covering them.

Jess and Rachel also cover other news in the week, including the government’s stance on the two state solution for Palestine and Israel, and how the media sensationalises recycled political commentary.