Failing Upwards

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

We are finally getting to the Twitter Files and Brittney Griner coverage this week. On top of those items, we’re checking in on ex-CNN President Jeff Zucker, updates from the NYT walkout and EOY media lists. If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at [email protected]. Receive show notes directly in your inbox, subscribe to the newsletter here. Time Stamps: 2:33 Front Page 49:14 Obsessions 56:00 Reader Mail 58:13 Favorite Item of the Week Show Notes: Axios: Exclusive: Bari Weiss reveals business plan for buzzy new media startup WSJ: Jeff Zucker, Former CNN President, to Lead Sports-and-Media Investment Firm RedBird IMI Mediaite: Mediaite’s Most Influential in News Media 2022 Semafor: New York Times DC Reporters are skipping the walkout NYT: With End of Griner’s Detention, a New Wave of WNBA Activism Begins WaPo: From Mexican cartel labs to U.S. streets, a deadly fentanyl pipeline Puck News: The Obamas’ Hollywood Education NYT: The 93 Most Stylish ‘People’ of 2022 WSJ: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Crash WSJ: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Parents Were There for FTX’s Rise, and Now Its Fall The Onion: Nation Forgives Harvey Weinstein After He Gets Really Good At Football Commentary: How Disinformation Journalists Practice Disinformation

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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 Hannity.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Pomo is having a moment. Hi, I'm Chris
0:24.7	Steyerwalt. And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to Engstained Wretches, where we break down what's
0:30.3	going wrong and, in fact, what is going right with the American News Media. Eliana Johnson,
0:36.5	we are not together in person, but only in spirit as we
0:39.4	record remotely on this very December, Washington Day. There is even the threat of some snow,
0:48.2	what do we call it, wintry mix, which I always think sounds like a frozen food offering,
0:53.7	but that there is, that there is, that is even that is, that is, that is even in the forecast.
0:56.5	So, and we're in, we're in, we're in Hanukkah, right?
0:59.7	Hanukkah starts this weekend.
1:01.9	I, I was, I knew that we were not yet in Hanukkah, but my eldest manchild, as 14-year-olds are fond of doing, scoffed at my assertion, and I being
1:13.6	afraid of youth believed him. So we are not yet in Hanukkah. So really, we're just getting
1:18.7	into the shank of December. And I'm addressing my excesses and deficiencies on Christmas gifts.
1:25.9	So it's all happening.
1:28.0	Totally.
1:33.1	We, I mean, it's not the only part I don't like about being remote,
1:37.2	but like one of the main parts I don't like is the lack of pastries.
1:41.1	Because I don't stop at the same bakery, et cetera, et cetera.
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