BEST OF THE GIST: Edmund Fitzgerald Edition

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we remember singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed away on Monday, by revisiting a 2014 Spiel, in which Mike realizes that all songs can be contained within one of Lightfoot's. It's hard to explain … just listen. Then we play Mike's Wednesday Spiel about NBC disinformation reporter Ben Collins. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to our ad-free and/or PescaPlus versions of The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Follow Mike's Substack: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.3	companies who currently publicly report these statistics.
1:17.2	The segment I did this week that I want to highlight for you was MSNBC disinformation reporter
1:43.2	Ben Collins came in hot calling the Washington Post brain dead in a tweet.
1:50.2	I can't believe NBC just allows a straight news reporter to opine like this, pop off like
1:55.9	this on an issue.
1:57.9	I think he's clearly wrong on.
1:59.6	I tweeted, he may be right, but the network doesn't do itself any service when it allows
2:07.1	its reporter to have such latitude with these blazing hot takes.
2:11.6	I stopped reading your tweet then.
2:15.0	No, I want to be clear.
2:17.2	Ben Collins is wrong, which is a matter of subjective opinion.
2:21.8	But my point is why am I subjected to a straight news reporter's subjective opinion when the
2:29.2	thing he's supposed to have authority on is the important issue of disinformation, the
2:34.4	important and thorny issue.
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