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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    The NSA and NPR in web news this week

    The hack of the DNC made headlines recently, and now security experts say the NSA has been hacked . In other web news, Univision will buy Gawker and will shut down the snarky gossip website next week. And NPR has announced that soon listeners won’t be able to comment on their website.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 18, 2016 • 1 min read

    The hack of the DNC made headlines recently, and now security experts say the NSA has been hacked. In other web news, Univision will buy Gawker and will shut down the snarky gossip website next week. And NPR has announced that soon listeners won’t be able to comment on their website.

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    2 of 5
    Rampant crime at Walmart has local police fed up. Who’s to blame?
    1. 0:30Rampant crime at Walmart has local police fed up. Who’s to blame?
    2. 9:14The NSA and NPR in web news this weekYou’re reading this
    3. 18:59‘Call Your Girlfriend’ podcast brings realtalk to live audiences
    4. 28:48Was Patty Hearst a brainwashed captive or a true believer?
    5. 45:37Warren Olney recalls the 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army shootout
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