A Dearth Of Sinemaphiles

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema announces her intention to become Former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Also on the show, The New York Times' union says the paper is racially profiling its own MENA staffers over a leak, Mike provides analysis plus he explains the meaning of MENA, in case you are unfamiliar. And we're joined once more by Jonathan Blitzer, who profiled Alejandro Mayorkis for The New Yorker and is the author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist Subscribe: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 from Peach Fish Productions.
0:07.0	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:09.8	The Union of the New York Times announced today that the paper was targeting Mina journalists
0:15.1	as part of a leak investigation.
0:17.4	Wait, what do I mean a Mina investigation?
0:20.9	Mina stands for Middle Eastern and North African and really an ethnically based
0:26.0	investigation by a paper. There is nothing Mina. But an issue is an addition or a scrapped edition of the podcast The Daily. The
0:35.0	Daily, apparently there, the staff had considered turning the big New York Times
0:39.0	front-page story about the rape of Israeli women on October 7th into a podcast.
0:45.7	What happened next was that staffers of the Daily, or maybe staffers of the New York Times, who were
0:50.6	familiar with some of the discussions at the daily leaked this
0:54.4	information to the online leftist magazine The Intercept and Ryan Grimm of
0:59.6	the Intercept wrote up a story which claimed that the New York Times podcast was
1:04.6	spiking the New York Times other journalism because it couldn't confirm it.
1:08.6	The paper disputed that
1:15.0	the intercept published its first big story trying to poke holes in the New York Times story.
1:19.0	We discussed that a bit yesterday.
1:20.0	I laid out why I don't think it got there, not in substance, but there is a great destabilization
1:28.0	within the shop that is the Daily if you have people affiliated or perhaps within that shop leaking to outsiders complaining about
1:36.0	journalistic choices. So the Times sought to find out who brought the internal editorial decisions public in a way designed to be most damaging to the newspaper.
1:45.8	I guess some of those being investigated are in the Mina category, Ryan Grimm tweeting today.
1:51.8	It's 2024 in the New York Times is trying to find our sources
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