A Thorn in The Desert
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Before diving into U.S. politics, we’re starting with Vogue’s poorly aged profile of Bashar al-Assad’s wife and the flurry of reports on the CEO assassin. Stick around for the latest coverage on the Trump world, the fashion-fueled conflict in the upcoming Administration, and group text dynamics. Wretch on!
Time Stamps:
1:09 Front Page
37:42 Obsessions
45:00 Reader Mail
48:52 Favorite Items
Show Notes:
The Atlantic: The Only Remaining Online Copy of Vogue's Asma al-Assad Profile
The Wall Street Journal: Inside Assad’s Ransacked Palace: Anxiety Pills, Graffiti and Shredded Posters
Daily Mail: It may seem bizarre, but many women (including me) are captivated by the 'hot assassin', writes CLARA GASPAR
The Washington Post: Luigi Mangione ‘had so much to offer’ — now, he is a murder suspect
The New York Times: The Prominent Maryland Family of the Suspect in the C.E.O. Killing
The Hill: Melania Trump sells Christmas ornaments during Fox News appearance
USA Today: Donald Trump picks former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece
The New York Times: Matea Gold Named Washington Editor of The New York Times
Status: The Krugman-Kingsbury Kerfuffle
AP News: Judge rejects sale of Alex Jones' Infowars to The Onion in dispute over bankruptcy auction
The Washington Post: Opinion | The secret lives of group chats
The New York Times: The Winter Arc Asks You to Lock In for 3 Months. Some Take It to an Extreme.
The Atlantic: The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
The Washington Post: What’s America’s largest ethnic group, and why did we get it wrong for so long?
The New York Times: Shuntaro Tanikawa, Popular Poet and Translator of ‘Peanuts,’ Dies at 92
The New York Times:Shalom Nagar Dies; Reluctant Executioner of Adolf Eichmann
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.2 | Hi, I'm Chris Stierwalt. |
| 0:24.8 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:33.5 | Eliana Johnson, it is, I can only describe today's conditions as British. |
| 0:39.6 | It is wet. |
| 0:40.9 | It is damp. |
| 0:42.1 | The traffic is bad. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm fighting to have holiday spirit. |
| 0:46.7 | How goes your struggle for holiday vibes? |
| 0:50.4 | You know, working on it. |
| 0:51.9 | You feel like it's coming on? |
| 0:53.6 | Working on it. All right. it's coming on? Working on it. |
| 0:54.9 | All right. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.5 | But I did like the first piece on our front page. |
| 1:01.1 | Look at you. |
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