Episode 21: Bye, Bye Bari And Adios, Andrew
Blocked and Reported
Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
After Jesse reluctantly reveals some incredibly embarrassing and personal details about his love life in the opening segment, the hosts discuss the week's two big media stories: Bari Weiss's resignation from The New York Times and Andrew Sullivan's firing from New York Magazine. Is this a sign that these outlets are narrowing their windows of acceptable opinion? Was Weiss's treatment in her workplace genuinely unfair, or is she reacting with the same 'safetyism' she has so forcefully criticized? If Jesse and Katie were trapped on a desert island, who would eat who? These and other questions, answered.
Show notes/Links:
-Bari Weiss's resignation letter: https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter
-"See You Next Friday: A Farewell Letter" by Andrew Sullivan: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-you-next-friday.html
-"When Racism Is Fit to Print" by Andrew Sullivan: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/sarah-jeong-new-york-times-anti-white-racism.html
-"How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?" by Andrew Sullivan: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2008/03/i-committed-four-cardinal-sins-around-the-iraq-war.html
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| 0:00.0 | Jessie, how's it going? |
| 0:03.7 | It's pretty good, Katie. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm dealing with a little bit of sort of personal intrigue that I'm not sure I'm comfortable |
| 0:10.5 | talking about on the podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | Why don't you just tell me what's going on and if you feel uncomfortable with it later |
| 0:16.1 | we can edit it out. |
| 0:17.1 | Okay, that's fair. |
| 0:18.1 | So this whole segment, what I'm about to say, we'll decide at the end if it sort of |
| 0:20.9 | makes me, you know, if I feel weird about it, we'll delete it. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah, totally. |
| 0:24.5 | So on the blockchain reported subreddit, www.reddit.com slash r slash blotter reported. |
| 0:29.9 | Someone asked if I had a girlfriend and look, as soon as this podcast started to take |
| 0:34.8 | over a little bit with this voice of mine and the sexual energy it contains, inevitably |
| 0:40.0 | I was going to become a focus of a lot of romantic interests. |
| 0:42.5 | I mean, we talked about this, right? |
| 0:43.5 | It was inevitable. |
| 0:44.5 | Oh, yeah, totally inevitable. |
| 0:45.5 | It was in fact, one of my great concerns about the podcast was that you have too much |
| 0:48.9 | sex appeal. |
| 0:49.9 | Yeah, I said the same thing because like we're very, we're usually just the issues, just |
| 0:53.9 | the facts, but like you have this sort of, you know, potential major sex symbol in me. |
| 0:59.1 | It distracts everybody. |
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