A Wretches Year in Review
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Eliana and Chris unpack the best and worst of the media in 2021
Times
- 02:18 - The Worst
- 03:15 - Nicole Wallace on public opinion of President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal
- 08:17 - Coverage of critical race theory and the Virginia gubernatorial election
- 12:58 - Tucker Carlson's January 6 documentary
- 16:17 - Mainstream media's praise for Simone Biles quitting the summer Olympics
- 18:48 - The Brothers Cuomo
- 24:16 - The Best
- 24:33 - New York Times reporter Michael Powell on the tyranny of the woke in the media
- 28:48 - PBS's documentary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan
- 31:00 - Pat McAfee announces FanDuel deal
- 32:52 - Reid Epstein's piece on long-lost father and son
- 33:57 - Animals on the loose!
- 35:28 - Yale Daily News on mental health and Daylight Saving Time
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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. Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt. |
| 0:24.5 | And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to ink-stained wretches, a 2021 year in review, a 2021, a wretches review. |
| 0:32.9 | We're going to break down what went wrong and what went right with the American News Media in |
| 0:39.1 | 2021, the first year of true wretchedness and a look back. |
| 0:43.0 | First half year. Yeah. Recognizing the best and worst of media coverage this year. |
| 0:48.3 | And since I'm a part of this podcast, we get to start with the worst. |
| 0:51.5 | Well, the first, I want to start with one good thing before we get to the bad thing, which is. |
| 0:56.3 | Which is that we have a podcast. |
| 0:57.3 | What a fun thing, right? |
| 0:58.7 | Totally. |
| 0:59.1 | And I remember when I was, when I was, what did Nancy Pelosi say one time about being unemployed, freed from work? |
| 1:05.1 | Deferencedrated. |
| 1:06.8 | When I, when I, when I, when I, when I, were involuntarily defenestrated. When I was freed from work and free to pursue my passions, I didn't know what I was going |
| 1:14.5 | to do. |
| 1:15.7 | And when you and I started talking about this, I remember the moment I was riding in the car, |
| 1:20.1 | driving somewhere, and you and I started talking about it. |
| 1:21.9 | It just made sense. |
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