Failing Models, Chasing Clicks
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
It’s already been a tough year for the News Media of America with shutdowns and layoffs happening every week. Chris and Eliana take time to break down the situation as well as the latest conservative conflict around Taylor Swift, Speaker Johnson’s dodging strategy and much more. Wretch on!
Time Stamps:
1:56 - Front Page
47:37 - Obsessions
51:56 - Reader Mail
55:27 - Favorites
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Columbia Journalism Review: The Death of the Washington Bureau
Slow Burning on Substack: The Two Crises in the News Business
Axios: The Messenger news startup is shutting down
Axios: Scoop: Wall Street Journal plans layoffs, restructuring in D.C.
ApNews: Dissolving Trump's business empire would stand apart in history of NY fraud law
WaPo: Fani Willis admits relationship with prosecutor on Trump Georgia case
The Atlantic: Elise Stefanik’s Trump Audition
NYT: Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA Meltdown
Sports Illustrated: ’NFL on CBS’ Crew Accosted by Conspiracy-Minded Ravens Fan on Train
NYT: Speaker Mike Johnson’s Favorite Way to Dodge Questions: Answering the Phone
Semafor: Joe Rogan signs Spotify deal worth up to $250 million
The Atlantic: The Suburbs Have Become a Ponzi Scheme
Ski Mag: If We Want Skiing to Be More Diverse, Let's Stop Celebrating the “Ski Bum”
WaPo: Students reported her for a lesson on race. Then she taught it again.
NYT: ‘In the Know’ Review: This American Narcissist
Obsessions:
NBC: Harvard DEI chief is the newest target of plagiarism accusations
Favorite Item:
NYT: Susie Essman, the Scene-Stealer Who Makes Larry David Lose It
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is there anything you would have done differently? |
| 0:02.0 | We've reported a true story. |
| 0:04.0 | Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq. |
| 0:10.0 | Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past. |
| 0:16.0 | Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hatton. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. Hi, I am Chris Nyarwalt. |
| 0:26.1 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. It's a fact. Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. And Eliana, other than making us record a day late, |
| 0:39.9 | and other than being late to the day late recording, I caused you to burn your hand. |
| 0:45.3 | You are a true team player because you're playing injured today. |
| 0:48.9 | You should be on the injured reserve list for a T-related accident, and yet you are soldiering on, and I'm grateful to you. |
| 0:56.5 | I am soldiering on. |
| 0:58.3 | It's this is, I've burned my hand on a coffee mug. |
| 1:01.3 | Coffee, it was coffee. |
| 1:03.3 | Yes. |
| 1:04.3 | I don't drink tea. |
| 1:05.2 | Do I seem like a tea drinker? |
| 1:06.5 | Some people drink tea. |
| 1:08.0 | I know some people do. |
| 1:09.3 | I didn't say some people don't drink tea. I know some people do. I didn't say some people don't drink tea. I'm not, I'm not, I don't judge. I don't judge a tea drinker, especially a lady would be very, would be very fine for a lady to have a mug of tea of an afternoon. And I just find microwave coffee to be the worst. Oh, I don't mind it at all. That's why you always want to throw out my coffee. Yeah, microwave coffee. And make a new one. No. Oh, I don't mind it at all. That's why you always want to throw out my coffee. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, microwave coffee. And make a new one. Oh, I don't mind it at all. |
| 1:32.6 | Microwave coffee is the pits. Also difficult today for me was getting a cup of black coffee. |
| 1:39.4 | On three separate occasions, I attempted to obtain a cup of black coffee and was initially thwarted. |
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