Democracy Doomsayers
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The media gets anxious about the midterms, former execs pass the buck on missing Hunter Biden coverage and the use of the word “illegal” starts to lose its meaning.
Time Stamps:
03:53 Front Page
46:54 Obsessions
54:37 Reader Mail
59:43 Favorite Item of the Week
Show Notes:
Variety: Election Threats Spur CBS News to Test New Coverage for Midterms
NYT: Poll Shows Voters See Democracy in Peril, but Saving It Isn’t a Priority
WaPo: The potential sleeper races of 2022, from Utah to Oregon
NYT: Bernard McGuirk, Famous and Infamous as Foil of Imus, Dies at 64
Reuters: Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career
WaPo: Death of Lola, 12, found in box in Paris sparks shock in France
CNBC: Putin introduces martial law in illegally annexed Ukrainian regions
WaPo: UAE relied on expertise of retired U.S. troops to beef up its military
New York Times: Suzanne Scott’s Vision for Fox News Gets Tested in Court
The Atlantic: Kevin Durant purchases Major League Pickleball expansion team
Politico: Charlie Kirk Needed a Friend
NYT: Fencing Can Be Six-Figure Expensive, but It Wins in College Admissions
NYT: It’s Never Too Late to Pivot From N.F.L. Safety to Neurosurgeon
Sky Full of Bacon Blog
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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. Welcome to Elinstein |
| 0:24.1 | Rechos, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:31.2 | Eliana Johnson, I am just back from Nashville, Tennessee, where I did a lovely event, Vanderbilt University, where |
| 0:39.7 | they couldn't have been more gracious and lovely. And I got to meet some wretches out on the road, |
| 0:44.3 | which is always very nice. And of course, as usual, they love you more than they love me. |
| 0:48.4 | And I'm certainly okay with that. But I have to tell you, so Nashville is, as you know, the New Austin, |
| 0:57.8 | and everyone has moved there, everyone is moving there and all of that stuff. And that's fine. |
| 1:03.1 | And I should also point out that I'm a country music fan in a serious way. You know, when I was |
| 1:08.3 | five years old, my father took me to see George Jones and |
| 1:11.6 | Tannie Wynette on their divorce tour. They were sober. They hated each other like God hates sin, |
| 1:16.7 | but they had gone on tour together because they were post broke while they were divorced. And my |
| 1:22.4 | father thought it was important enough that when they came to Wheeling that we we go see them so that I, like Babe Ruth. |
| 1:29.0 | So I have my country music bona fides. But I got to tell you, lady, every place that there |
| 1:36.7 | were five feet open, some corporate entity had hired a person to play the guitar. And like you walked through the airport, you go through |
| 1:48.3 | the hotel, you go into the restaurant, everywhere you go, there is somebody strumming a guitar. |
| 1:54.1 | There were two separate people playing Margaritaville in the same airport. |
| 2:03.4 | They were competing Margarita Vills. |
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