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Seems like some journalistic backscratching. This American Life is trying to push Serial, and the Startup guy recently had a piece on This American Life, and if I remember correctly, is somewhat affiliated (could be wrong about that). Anyway, whatever. Serial is excellent and should be promoting itself however it can, and This American Life's quality goes without saying.

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Well, This American Life and Serial are done by the same people, so that's not surprising. The "StartUp guy" was a producer for TAL for many years so that's where that connection comes from.

Planet Money, which was Blumberg's main podcast for the last few years, is also a spinoff of TAL (created after The Giant Pool of Money episode[1]) and produced in partnership with them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giant_Pool_of_Money

Also Blumberg's input on Planet Money quickly descended into the worst kind of sycophancy. naked capitalism did a very good job of calling him out on it. It's a shame because some of the early shows (eg giant pool of money) were very good.

I'm interested. Could you point me to a link to where naked capitalism calls out Blumberg? I hadn't actually heard of that site (show?) before and an initial Google isn't bringing me anything. Thanks.

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