Surging Gas Prices Shake Americans, and How Ted Turner Unleashed 24-Hour News
5/7/20268 min
Plus, the conflicting messages on the state of the war.
Here’s what we’re covering:
Higher Gas Prices Are Hitting Lower-Income Americans the Hardest, by Talmon Joseph Smith
Iran Says It Is Reviewing a U.S. Proposal to End the War, by Leo Sands, Qasim Nauman, Mark Landler and Michael Levenson
With World Distracted by War, Extremist Settlers Intensify Attacks in West Bank, by Natan Odenheimer, David M. Halbfinger and Fatima AbdulKarim
Ted Turner, Creator of CNN and the 24-Hour News Cycle, Dies at 87, by Jonathan Kandell
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First 90 secondsA.O. Scott0:00
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Tracy Mumford· Host0:26
[Instrumental music playing] From The New York Times, it's the headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today is Thursday, May 7th. Here's what we're covering.
Speaker 30:38
[Instrumental music playing] Paint me a picture of how you manage fuel costs since the war and the spike in prices. I mean, I was paying well below $3. And then, let me see, within a week, a week, it jumped up a doll- a damn near a dollar.
Tracy Mumford· Host1:01
Across the US, gas prices keep ticking up, but the weight of that burden is not hitting everyone equally.
Speaker 31:08
I mean, here it's, it's rough. I mean, gas was the one thing that wasn't that expensive.
Tracy Mumford· Host1:13
According to an analysis released by the New York Fed, lower income Americans are feeling the worst of it.
Speaker 31:19
Exactly. It's like, why am I even coming out of the house?
Tracy Mumford· Host1:22
My colleague Talmon Joseph Smith talked with a woman in her mid-40s who drives for Uber and Lyft in Charleston, South Carolina.