Radio War Nerd EP140—A Podcast Criticism of A Podcast ("Caliphate")

In this episode we try something new and untested—a podcast version of a media criticism piece on another podcast: "Caliphate" the 10-part New York Times series on Islamic State, hosted by reporter Rukmini Callimachi. We made it extra-hard on ourselves by choosing a deep dive critique on a podcast series that's mostly pretty good with some large glaring flaws — rather than straight-up horrible (and therefore an easy target). A valiant & doomed effort, by the end of our episode we come to realize why no one else has tried doing this before . . . Total time: 2:32:03