I used to listen to Planet Money, so I’m already familiar with many fo their episodes. I listened to “Frame Canada,” an episode about how statistics and specific images can frame something that’s really good into something that’s not so good. It goes through the story of how a man campaigned against Bill Clinton and the Democrats’ health care plan by portraying it as “Canadian,” and then they had to portray the Canadian health care system as bad. To do this, they presented misleading information, such as about so little room that patients are dying in gurneys outside of waiting rooms, or how the number of doctors per capita in Canada was shrinking. To help make amends, he started to try to correct people’s perception of Canadian healthcare.

In terms of category, it would be education or finance, since the podcast is about different topics in the economy, whether past situations or new situations. The content does interest me, as it’s something I used to listen to in the past (~200 episodes listened overall). They use nonfiction storytelling to help show a story of how a conman turned into an advocate, and helps tell a linear story linearly.