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Knit to This: Supermajority
Meribah Knight is something of a prodigy. She’s a reporter for Nashville Public Radio, and her journalistic podcasts have already merited her a Peabody award, the radio world’s equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize.
Her superpower is embedding herself in a place with the people whose story she is telling. This takes months and months to do, with patience to let the story unfold in real time.
The result is wildly compelling—she is a storyteller as much as a journalist.
Supermajority is Meribah’s new four-part podcast, part of the NPR series Embedded. After a mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Meribah embedded herself for a year with a group of conservative, gun-owning moms working for safer gun legislation.
Can these women change state politics? Or will state politics change them?
I was present at some of the legislative sessions that Meribah captures in this podcast, and she captures the turmoil of it all with superb skill.
Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.
Thank you very much for this link. This has been a flashpoint in Tennessee and I want to hear what she reports.
Thanks Anne! I found this podcast on my own but didn’t anything about the author/creator. It is, as you say, compelling, sympathetic and addictive. She’s wonderful to knit to!
I came across Embedded the other day in my quest to find more balanced news sources, and this four-part series that you recommend is proving to be incredibly compelling. These three very conservative Republican Christian moms, and their experiences with the Tennessee Republican supermajority legislators after the mass shooting at their kid’s Covenant School is eye opening for them and for me. It is not just about guns, although it begins there. Wow!
Thanks, MDK!
Thanks for the recommendation!
Thank you. I’m always looking for interesting podcasts.
Thanks for this!
Thank you for sharing this link but I couldn’t knit to it. I was listening to every word! It was time well spent. And thank you to the courageous moms who are trying to make this state a safer place for our kids.
I love the variety of topics you cover on MDK.
Had not heard of this and look forward to listening. Thank you.
Thanks, Ann, for the link. Just excellent. It must have taken a lot of self-control to sit through any of the sessions and not get thrown out! I did knit to it, maybe with more tension than usual.