Episode 99: How Slate Became An Embarrassing Basket-Case Shell Of Its Former Self (With Mike Pesca)

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

After Katie and Jesse discuss their nonconsensual Yassifications, they bring on Mike Pesca to discuss the time he was forced out at Slate because… well, hard to say! If you’re a premium subscriber and would like to discuss this episode, click here.

Show notes/Links:

The Yassification incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlockedAndReported/comments/s5ee24/the_yassification_of_jesse_singal_and_katie_herzog/

The Daily Beast’s bad coverage of the Donald McNeil, Jr. incident:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/star-new-york-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-accused-of-using-n-word-making-other-racist-comments

Letter from NYT staffers suggesting this was not, you know, an isolated incident:

More responsible coverage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/business/media/new-york-times-donald-mcneil.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/09/what-happened-with-new-york-times-reporter-don-mcneil/

McNeil tells his side:

https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/nytimes-peru-n-word-part-one-introduction-57eb6a3e0d95?source=user_profile---------19-------------------------------

Defector’s hatchet job on Pesca:

https://defector.com/mike-pesca-slate-suspended/

The Gist is back!

Image: NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - OCTOBER 26: (L-R) Kurt Bardella, Mike Pesca and Jennifer Rubin speak onstage during the 2019 Politicon at Music City Center on October 26, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Ed Rode/Getty Images for Politicon)

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0:00.0	We are here, Jesse, ready for another podcast.
0:10.7	How's it going?
0:11.7	I'm doing pretty well.
0:12.9	It's cold and shitty and Brooklyn, but that's the normalest time of year.
0:16.2	How are you doing?
0:17.2	I'm pretty good.
0:18.2	You might have noticed.
0:19.2	I updated recently my Twitter profile picture.
0:21.6	Did you notice that?
0:22.6	Yeah.
0:23.6	You look like a beautiful lady now.
0:25.2	Not that you didn't look that way before, but even more so.
0:28.1	Thank you, Jesse.
0:29.1	So my new Twitter profile picture comes from our Reddit.
0:33.3	Somebody, this user name is FBSNS, so really rolls off the tongue.
0:41.7	Posted new photos of both you and I that have been through some sort of face app filter.
0:47.2	And I would say that you look like you look like you have adult onset microincephaly,
0:53.5	or as I said on Twitter, it looks like they use forceps when they pulled you out of the
0:57.1	wound.
0:58.1	It's just like smushed in this very weird way.
1:00.4	But I look genuinely hot.
1:02.2	I look like a Ukrainian supermodel.
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