Driving the Day: Politico a Billion-Dollar Company?
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
German media giant acquires Politico, the blame game in Afghanistan, and DeSantis dukes it out with the Associated Press
Times
- 0:35 - Segment: Front Page
- 1:08 - Media coverage on Afghanistan evolves
- 10:00 - Gallup poll on American's satisfaction with the United States
- 12:15 - Politico sells to Axel Springer for $1 billion
- 17:44 - ABC producer Michael Corn sued over sexual harassment allegations
- 20:56 - Talk radio host Larry Elder surges ahead as a Republican contender to California governor Gavin Newsom, who is facing a recall
- 25:00 - Climate activists protests the Federal Reserve
- 27:40 - Segment: Obsessions of the Week
- 27:57 - Bruhaha between the Associated Press and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
- 33:00 - Republican Congressional candidate Kim Klacik files a defamation suit against the Daily Wire's Candice Owens
- 39:17 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 39:21 - Minnesota Star Tribune's coverage of the transgender Mosque bomber
- 41:04 - The American Conservative's piece on Ohio Senate hopeful J.D. Vance
Links
Gallup poll on U.S. satisfaction with direction of the country
Bloomberg article on the Federal Reserve and Climate Change
Minnesota Star-Tribune article on the transgender Mosque bomber
The American Conservative article on Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.5 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.8 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.3 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.1 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity. |
| 0:18.6 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.4 | Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt. And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome to Inc. Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:33.2 | Up first on our front page. |
| 0:39.3 | These are the stories we thought were most important this week. |
| 0:42.8 | Chris, got to start off saying we are sitting here on Thursday midday and we are in the midst of a breaking news cycle. |
| 0:50.4 | So just want our listeners to know that we are following the developments in Afghanistan |
| 0:56.6 | where reportedly two explosions have taken place at the airport. |
| 1:01.2 | And we'll break down the media coverage of that next week because we're going to wait |
| 1:04.6 | and see how it plays out. |
| 1:06.1 | But I do want to note before today's events that we saw at least some of the media, the coverage |
| 1:13.9 | was evolving in Afghanistan and MSNBC in particular and others explained to viewers. |
| 1:22.4 | They found their storyline, which is how Trump is to blame in Afghanistan. |
| 1:26.4 | Let's play the clips. |
| 1:31.3 | So is it exactly what anchors and reporters should be doing, |
| 1:33.3 | holding the administration accountable? |
| 1:37.6 | Or has the coverage been out of proportion, out of step with the American public? |
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