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Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Episode 6: Red Light Addiction

Citizen McCain with Meghan McCain

Citizen Cain Productions

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

3.9692 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Meghan is joined by media reporter and fellow cable news veteran, Brian Stelter. They dive deep into old wounds and talk about the times they were worried they might be addicted to being on television. Brian discusses his ousting from CNN and what he sees for the future of the network... and the media landscape in general. He also shares bits from his new book, 'Network of Lies' and it gets Meghan to share a story she's never told publicly.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Megan McCain has entered the chat.

0:15.0

Hello, hello, hello.

0:17.5

Welcome back to my show.

0:19.9

Megan McCain has entered the chat with me, Megan

0:22.8

McCain. And as usual, like every day, my executive producer, Miranda, it's not Wilkins

0:28.0

anymore. Is it? Okay. She got married, but when I first met you, you had a different last name.

0:33.0

So I was like, it's, anyway, Miranda Wilkins. Thank you so much for doing this show with me.

0:39.2

We've been having such a good time, and we are so excited.

0:41.5

We already taped this interview, so we should preface that, with Brian Stilter, who has 10,000 jobs,

0:47.6

but people probably know him best as being a host on CNN and a media reporter.

0:51.6

And I have to say, it's like a really fascinating interview. I was really

0:55.0

happy with it. I was like really particularly excited because I'm such a big fan of the morning show,

1:01.7

the TV show on Apple TV plus with Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Innocent. So I'm just sitting there

1:06.6

the whole time waiting for you to ask him about it. So I'm really glad when you finally got to

1:11.8

it. Yes. And I'd say, you know, it's weird being sort of, I'm 39. I think he's around my age.

1:18.8

I think he's like, you know, his late 30 is maybe even 40. When you like become sort of the

1:24.3

older people in media, like we've both been around a really long time and been doing this since our early 20s and we have kind of some similar war stories about like being

1:33.9

on big shows leaving big shows just being in the industry a long time and I was he's like

1:38.9

wildly open and I'm just really happy we got the chance to have some time and space with him.

1:44.3

So here's our interview with Brian Stelter.

1:51.9

Well, I'm very excited to have this next guest on because when I started this podcast,

1:56.7

I really just wanted to interview people who I was curious about their lives and curious about

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