ESPN's Ryan Ruocco and CNN's Brian Stelter
SI Media With Jimmy Traina
Sports Illustrated
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Episode 338 of the "Sports Illustrated Media Podcast" hosted by Jimmy Traina features two guests.
First up is ESPN play-by-play man, Ryan Ruocco, who was calling the Nuggets-Mavericks game on March 11, 2020 when the NBA announced that the season would be suspended because of Covid-19. Ruocco talks about what that experience was like, how his mindset about Covid changed from that night until now, whether he'd be comfortable calling games in full arenas, whether he ever got used to calling games from home and much more.
Following Ruocco, Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent joins the podcast to discuss how the media has covered Covid, what the media has done well and not so well, what the media's responsibilities are in reporting about Covid vaccines, did he ever expect a pandemic to become so political, what it's like to cover media while working for a media company, the cable news wars and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Walter Isakson set out to write about a world-changing genius in Elon Musk and found a man addicted to chaos and conspiracy. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm thinking it's idiotic to buy Twitter because he doesn't have a fingertip feel for social emotional networks. |
| 0:13.4 | The book launched a thousand hot takes, |
| 0:15.3 | so I sat down with Isakson to try to get past the noise. |
| 0:18.0 | I like the fact that people who say I'm not as tough on Musk |
| 0:21.4 | as I should be are always using anecdotes for my book to show why we should be tough on Musk. |
| 0:27.0 | Join me, Evan Ratliff, for On Musk with Walter Isickson. |
| 0:30.0 | Listen on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | My name is Theo Henderson, hosting creator of the podcast called Weyenne House. |
| 0:40.0 | My lived experience in houselessness is extensive. |
| 0:43.0 | I was one of over 75,000 experiencing houselessness on a given night in Los Angeles. |
| 0:48.0 | Here's a simple truth. |
| 0:50.0 | Houselessness is everywhere. It affects over a half a billion people in the United States alone. |
| 0:56.0 | Weedy Inhows will explore the senseless tragedy of displacement from the perspective of the Inhows. |
| 1:01.0 | Listen to Wehianhows on I-Heart radio app, |
| 1:04.4 | Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:07.6 | After Lives is a new podcast about the life and legacy |
| 1:10.8 | of Lélene Polanco, a transgender Afro-Latina who died tragically on Rikers Island |
| 1:16.1 | jail complex. |
| 1:17.1 | Justice for Lées Lélene loved to dance, she loved to sing. |
| 1:21.6 | She was just happy to be alive. |
| 1:23.4 | Stepping foot on Rikers Island |
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