All the Hot Goss That’s Fit to Print | Damage Control (Ep. 561)

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced this week that he and his wife are getting divorced (1:51); shortly after, the National Enquirer published a report detailing Bezos’s affair (10:41). Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson received blowback after several journalists called out her book for being factually incorrect (16:33)—an example of what happens when you let Twitter become your fact checker (25:47). Hosts: Kate Knibbs and Justin Charity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:04.6	The NFL Conference Championships are here and on the site Robert Mays is writing about
0:08.4	why this year's Chiefs are the team that Andy Reed has been waiting for and Kevin Clark
0:12.5	breaks down the era of the old dominant quarterback.
0:15.5	Also, don't forget to check out all of our sports video coverage.
0:18.3	We've got master sports with Roger Sherman, slow news day with Kevin Clark and NBA desktop
0:22.7	with Jason Concepcion.
0:23.9	You can check it all out on YouTube and theRinger.com.
0:30.0	I'm Justin Charity and I'm Kate Nebs.
0:42.0	Welcome to Damage Control on the channel 33 Network, a podcast where we unpack what upsets,
0:47.6	excites and divides us.
0:49.5	We're talking about the former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson whose
0:54.9	new book about news and truth is reportedly riddled with slander and falsehoods strangely
1:02.2	enough.
1:03.3	But first, the richest couple in the world are breaking up.
1:07.2	And we're going to talk about how the divorce of Jeff and McKenzie Bezos has inspired
1:11.9	a lot of very strange speculation.
1:18.9	So I'm just curious, why is it that they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and go
1:25.4	to extraordinary lengths to try to destroy the life of Jeff Bezos, a man who has been
1:34.6	enemy number one of Donald Trump, almost from the beginning of this administration.
1:40.8	Are they still doing the same thing for Donald Trump that they did before?
1:48.8	Are they struck a deal with Robert Mueller?
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