{"id":38819,"date":"2018-01-17T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=38819"},"modified":"2018-01-17T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:41:48","slug":"wednesdays-video-get-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/wednesdays-video-get-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s Video: Get the FACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I collect a lot of things &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IyJkD8cuKxY&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vintage clothes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/introducing-purrkoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">squish-faced animals<\/a>, dust &#8212; but baseball caps are not on the list. I&#8217;m not very sporty, to say the least. In fact, I can&#8217;t remember ever noticing a baseball cap until late last year, when I saw a guy wearing a snapback embroidered with the word &#8220;FACTS.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_38820\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynprinthouse.com\/products\/the-facts-hat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38820\" class=\"wp-image-38820\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/facts_hat_grande.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/facts_hat_grande.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/facts_hat_grande-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to shop.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Being a big fan of facts, I had to ask where he got it. The guy &#8212; Oliver &#8212; started explaining that he was involved with the hat project and that 20% of the profit from each hat go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Committee to Protect Journalists<\/a> and I was like &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/6wM4Zhs4h4PGo\" width=\"480\" height=\"348\" frameBorder=\"0\" class=\"giphy-embed\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/carrie-frisky-shoulders-6wM4Zhs4h4PGo\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; because I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/about-wendy\/journalism\/committee-to-protect-journalists-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">involved with CPJ for many years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After quizzing him somewhat suspiciously about who he was in touch with at CPJ (sorry, Oliver), I declared, &#8220;I need to get this hat for all my journalist friends!&#8221; Oliver kindly offered to send me some instead. That&#8217;s how a baseball cap inspired this week&#8217;s video, in which I discuss three nonprofit journalism-related organizations: CPJ, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProPublica<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Trace<\/a>. And, yes, I wear an actual BASEBALL CAP throughout the whole video. Maybe I&#8217;ll start wearing baseball caps all the time now. Who knows? Like I always say, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/never-is-the-next-new-thing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Never Is the Next New Thing<\/a>\u2122.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykANgGZoTEk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In addition to CPJ, ProPublica is especially near and dear to me because MrB was its founding editor. I keep a close eye on its work, and, in my video, I highlight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/lost-mothers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica&#8217;s investigative series<\/a> on the 700 to 900 annual pregnancy-related, childbirth-related, and post-childbirth deaths in the U.S. &#8212; the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Those stories made a big impact on me, even though I&#8217;ve never had children, because I&#8217;m very familiar with the second-class care that women can be subject to in the medical realm.  <\/p>\n<p>Now I feel like examples of maternal crises are everywhere. In December &#8212; just weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/black-women-disproportionately-suffer-complications-of-pregnancy-and-childbirth-lets-talk-about-it\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica reported that black mothers are three to four times more likely to die than white mothers<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/30\/nyregion\/erica-garner-dead.html?_r=0\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">activist Erica Garner died of a heart attack at 27<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/erica-garner-declared-brain-dead-no-chance-recovery-article-1.3723817\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She had a previous heart attack shortly after giving birth to a son four months earlier<\/a>. Doctors said the pregnancy had stressed an already enlarged heart, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2017\/12\/28\/16827004\/erica-garner-critical-condition-heart-attack\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a condition no one knew about<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Even more recently, tennis great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams did an interview with Vogue<\/a> in which she discussed the potentially life-threatening complications she endured after childbirth; how she knew she had a pulmonary embolism based on her past history; and the way both a nurse and a doctor initially doubted her and therefore delayed giving her the proper diagnostic test and treatment. For real, someone dared to dismiss SERENA WILLIAMS. That&#8217;s why I strongly urge you to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/lost-mothers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ProPublica series<\/a>. (If you have to pick just one story to read, go with that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system-1?utm_source=suggestedarticle&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=readnext&#038;utm_content=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.propublica.org%2Farticle%2Fdie-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system-1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Bloomstein, a neonatal nurse who died in the hospital where she worked<\/a>. WTF.) If you have had personal experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/getinvolved\/help-propublica-and-npr-investigate-maternal-mortality\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cases of maternal death or severe complications<\/a>, you should report that to ProPublica. And please consider giving <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.propublica.org\/give\/141278\/#!\/donation\/checkout\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a little something to ProPublica so that it can keep up the good work<\/a>. ProPublica&#8217;s mission includes having real-life impact and <a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/new-york-city-launches-committee-to-review-maternal-deaths\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several cities have already established committees to review deaths and severe complications related to pregnancy and childbirth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the hat that started this whole thing: You can get the navy FACTS snapback at FACTISTS.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynprinthouse.com\/products\/the-facts-hat\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">where the product description describes exactly where the hat was made and by whom<\/a>. I dig the transparency (but, Oliver, can you all make the hat in black too?). There&#8217;s also a burgundy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynprinthouse.com\/products\/the-facts-hat\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SCIENCE hat<\/a>. Twenty percent of the profit from that one goes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a>. FACTS and SCIENCE are frequently under attack these days, so why not show your support?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I collect a lot of things &#8212; vintage clothes, squish-faced animals, dust &#8212; but baseball caps are not on the list. I&#8217;m not very sporty, to say the least. In fact, I can&#8217;t remember ever noticing a baseball cap until late last year, when I saw a guy wearing a snapback embroidered with the word&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/wednesdays-video-get-the-facts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,582,1,98,49,568],"tags":[472,1486],"class_list":{"0":"post-38819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accessories","8":"category-committee-to-protect-journalists-2","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-hats","11":"category-in-the-news","12":"category-journalism","13":"tag-propublica","14":"tag-the-trace","15":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38819"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38833,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819\/revisions\/38833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}