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Ink Stained Wretches

Bye Felicia

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.7716 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Simone Biles and safety culture come to the Olympics, news reporters take a stand on Jan. 6, and Felicia Sonmez sues her bosses


Times

  • 00:39 - Segment: Most Important Stories of the Week
  • 00:45 - Simone Biles
  • 08:50 - NYT JD Tweets 
  • 10:46 - Racial Disparities in COVID Learning
  • 16:38 - Tucker NSA
  • 18:47 - Segment: Obsessions of the Week
  • 19:09 - Craiglist vs Local Papers
  • 22:52 - Suit against Washington Post
  • 29:53 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
  • 30:17 - AEI Panel
  • 31:47 - Matt Lauer Home Listing 


Links

The Atlantic piece by Caitlin Flanagan, The University of California Is Lying to Us

AEI Event on Post-Journalism 

NY Post report on Matt Lauer's Hamptons house

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 Hatton.

0:18.0

Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.

0:24.8

Hi, I'm Chris Dyerwalt. And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to Inc. Stained Wretches, where we break

0:30.2

down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. Up first, on our

0:35.7

front page, these are the stories that we thought were most

0:38.5

important this week.

0:43.0

Chris, I think we got to start with the coverage of Simone Biles' decision to pull out of the

0:49.6

women's team gymnastics competition. What did we think of the coverage here?

0:55.7

Well, I mean, I want to lay down the predicate first and foremost that the volume of

1:01.1

coverage just taken as a quantity was absurdly large.

1:05.6

If we were just to measure it by the pound, there was simply way too much of it.

1:10.2

I know a lot of people like the Olympics. I know a lot of people like the Olympics.

1:12.6

I know a lot of people like gymnastics, particularly within the Olympics. And I know that

1:16.3

Simone Biles is a famous person. But you would have thought that this was like Jack Ruby

1:22.3

shooting Lee Harvey Oz. Like you would have thought that some, I got so many alerts on my phone.

1:28.6

The Washington.

1:29.0

That is like the least of my problem with the coverage.

1:31.7

I was very interested in it.

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