Bonfire of the Cable News Vanities
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Rep. Devin Nunes leaves Congress for MAGA media, surgeon general shrinks the news, much ado about Fox’s torched tinsel
Times
- 01:34 - Segment: Front Page
- 01:40 - Times names Simone Biles Athlete of the Year
- 05:02 - The Washington Post editorializes the obituary of late editor Fred Hiatt
- 08:09 - Chris Cuomo fired from CNN, and he prepares to sue
- 12:23 - The Los Angeles Times on the entertainment nexus of QAnon and Hollywood
- 13:33 - Politico on Biden foreign policy
- 16:51 - Politico on inflation
- 20:57 - Rep. Devin Nunes to retire from Congress to head up Trump's social media company
- 25:11 - Buzzfeed goes public, and shares tank
- 27:31 - Supreme Court abortion case coverage focuses on Justice Kavanaugh
- 30:00 - The surgeon general warns of mental health issues in young people
- 32:10 - Fox's Christmas tree fire
- 34:33 - Segment: Obsessions
- 34:39 - Politico's Jack Shafer blasts cable news (Chris)
- 38:04 - The New York Times coverage of the withdrawal of Biden's socialist nominee for comptroller of the currency (Eliana)
- 42:23 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 42:48 - Coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial (Chris)
- 45:40 - Wall Street Journal op-ed on crime (Eliana)
Links
Times names Simone Biles Athlete of the Year
New York Post article on Chris Cuomo suing CNN
Los Angeles Times piece on QAnon and Hollywood
Politico article on Biden
Politico article on inflation
Jack Shafer's piece on cable news
Ghislaine Maxwell trial coverage, via Poynter
Wall Street Journal op-ed on crime
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. Hi, I'm Chris |
| 0:23.9 | Tyrewald. And I'm Eliana Johnson. Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what's going |
| 0:28.9 | wrong and what's going right with the American news media. Eliana Johnson coming to us being |
| 0:35.5 | recorded from her bed, which is,, which is I think where we should |
| 0:39.5 | always record. |
| 0:41.4 | But it's actually the guest bed. |
| 0:43.1 | Pregnant ladies who are eight months pregnant should always record from a recumbent position. |
| 0:48.1 | I dig it. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm, I was going to say, I'm like on my back foot for this. |
| 0:51.5 | Let's see what the criticism is like because I took a Xanax like 20 |
| 0:56.0 | minutes ago in preparation for my dental surgery. So this should be a fun one. Well, I think you on |
| 1:02.1 | one Xanax is like being a type A instead of just a type A plus. It's just like being a normal person. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, let's not get carried away. |
| 1:11.9 | To Zanx, maybe normal. |
| 1:14.3 | To Zanx, I'd be passed out. |
| 1:16.5 | I have no doubt that you will bring the same gimlet eye and incisiveness to this, no matter what. |
| 1:23.9 | Fortunately, we did get a lot of new topics, subjects this morning starting with. |
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