Lazy Journalism is Killing Black People
4 min readApr 10, 2020
The first voice you hear on the April 9th episode of The Daily podcast is a white woman talking about the coronavirus in New Orleans.
Yanti Turang, a nurse with experience treating other infectious diseases like Ebola, is a transplant to New Orleans from Australia. It is Turang’s voice you hear describing the cultural significance of Mardi Gras, a centuries old tradition she’s been a part of for…