Can Cable News Pivot to Biden? Plus, David Axelrod.

The Press Box

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down what cable news networks such as MSNBC and CNN could look like after a Trump presidency (2:30) before tackling another round of Listener Mail, where they answer the question, “Who is the best strained-pun headline-creating writer/editor you have ever worked with?" (24:15) Then David Axelrod, a CNN senior political commentator and Barack Obama’s former chief campaign strategist, joins to discuss his career as a journalist (43:40). Plus, The Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David! This week, the most amazing newspaper correction of all time appeared.
0:09.0	I want to read it to you. In a story on December 15, 2020, about the Mexican and Brazilian presidents congratulating US President-elect Joe Biden,
0:19.0	the Associated Press erroneously reported that Biden's first name is Jose.
0:26.0	His first name is Joe. Thank you, AP. His name is not Jose Biden.
0:31.0	What I want to know is, can you think of a more spectacular error that a wire service could commit in calling the next American president Jose Biden?
0:41.0	It's like the inverse of all those years we spent in Spanish class. Whereas you would just be like, hey, can I work with David?
0:48.0	And the teacher should be like, no, no, no, no, David say, I'm a, say, I'm a, David.
0:57.0	That is an incredible flow. I don't even know what to say about it. How do they call him Jose? It must have been in context, right?
1:03.0	It must have been in context. Unless it was like the quote was like someone saying no way Jose and they felt the need to correct that.
1:09.0	I kind of don't think that was appearing in an AP foreign relations column.
1:13.0	I think the best part of this is just just putting aside a particular mistake. You got the name of the president wrong.
1:21.0	I mean, is there is there anything more when you're doing like what I need to get right in this news article?
1:27.0	Is there anything more fundamental than get the name of the president of the United States? Correct.
1:34.0	I mean, that a day one thing. Get it first, but get it right. Get Joe Biden's name first, but, but actually get his first name right.
1:43.0	Yeah, maybe somebody who's using Google translator something and just go to loop to few extra words in there.
1:48.0	Coming up on today's show, what will MSNBC and CNN do with themselves after Trump?
1:53.0	We answer your listener mail plus David Axelrod talks about the election in his early years as a reporter.
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