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Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Afghanistan coverage goes off the rails, CNN’s “standards,” and our beef with fact-checkers
Times
- 0:33 - Segment: Most Important Stories of the Week
- 0:44 - Afghanistan coverage
- 3:20 - Biden Transcript
- 11:25 - Axel Springer
- 15:05 - FED and Climate Change
- 17:20 - Vice News
- 20:47 - News Trust declines
- 25:19 - Jeffrey Toobin
- 28:48 - Segment: Obsessions of the Week
- 27:47 - Harpers
- 34:05 - Politfact
- 38:42 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 39:01 - Screenland
- 40:46 - Michael Powell
Links
New York Times piece on Tik Tok
New York Times piece on Critical Race Theory in New York public schools
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. Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwald. |
| 0:24.7 | And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to Ink-Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong |
| 0:30.3 | and what's going right with the American News Media. Up first on our front page. |
| 0:44.3 | These are the stories that caught our attention this week. Chris, I figure we have to start off with talking about the highs and lows of Afghanistan coverage because there have been plenty of highs, but particularly in the past week, a lot of lows. |
| 0:56.1 | So uncharacteristically, I'm going to lead with the positive. |
| 0:59.5 | And I think Matt Lee, the AP's intrepid diplomatic correspondent, I wanted to play the clip |
| 1:07.4 | of him putting it to State Department spokesman Ned Price. |
| 1:12.8 | Months or beyond, we will help that person. We will help that person depart Afghanistan. |
| 1:18.3 | The family that I'm referring to and possibly the family that Mike Romero is referring to, |
| 1:23.9 | I mean, they were told. You guys do know. It defies logic to think that you guys don't have |
| 1:30.8 | even a rough estimate of the number of LPRs who are out there. We have in. I mean, that's what these, |
| 1:38.1 | I only wish we saw more of that in these briefings, these like good antagonistic, challenging questions that either force the |
| 1:48.6 | government to provide answers or show that they really have no idea what they're talking |
| 1:53.8 | about. So hats off to Matt Lee. I like that. Let's quickly move past the good thing. |
| 1:57.8 | Well, I just, well, I, so Matt Lee, I go back and forth on |
| 2:04.6 | Matt Lee. Oh, I love Matt Lee. Matt, we want you on the show. We don't have guests, but the best, |
| 2:11.1 | when I'm on vacation, he can be my felons. So the very best thing that I can say about Matt Lee, |
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