Episode 941: Uh Oh, The Media's Building Lifeboats (Again)!

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're watching the media scramble for survival as tectonic forces fracture the landscape—and the billionaires are building lifeboats while Mount Vesuvius smokes overhead. Why is The Bulwark declaring itself "the future" while The Washington Post and CBS News die? And what does it mean that CBS just hired Bari Weiss to, let's face it, manage the death of broadcast TV news? We'll reveal the secret to understanding what's happening to media right now: how Rupert Murdoch bought r...

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0:00.0	You can listen to the professional left wherever you get your podcasts on NetRut's radio or at our website, pro-leftpod.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast.
0:09.8	There's a PayPal button at our website, where he can mail us a letter and or contribution at P.O. Box 913, Springfield, Illinois, 62791.
0:19.1	This is the podcast for October 14th, 2025.
0:22.7	It's not safe for work.
0:24.7	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where we can see the lifeboat building
0:29.3	shipyards are putting on a third shift.
0:32.2	It's their professional left with drift glass and blue gal.
0:42.0	Music with Drift Glass and Blue Gal. Turn the lifeboats.
0:43.9	Yeah, that's what we're going to have to talk about today, huh?
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:47.7	Yes.
0:48.5	Today, but we're going to start today by whipping a little history at you.
0:53.1	This is a short excerpt from a letter Pliny the Younger wrote explaining why his uncle, Pliny the elder, died.
1:03.2	He died.
1:04.1	He died.
1:05.0	It was very sad.
1:06.4	It was very sad.
1:07.7	This is the quote.
1:09.0	My uncle having left us, I spent much time as was left on my studies.
1:13.7	I don't believe him already. It was on their account indeed that I had stopped behind,
1:20.1	till it was time for my bath, after which I went to supper, and then fell into a short and uneasy
1:26.8	sleep. There had been noticed for many days before
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