Fame and Misfortune
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Text messages obtained by the January 6 commission revealed the panic of Fox News hosts — even as they downplayed the insurrection on camera. On this week’s On the Media, how to hold the news station accountable. Plus, an investigation of the celebrity profile – from the biting to the banal.
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Angelo Carusone [@GoAngelo], President and CEO of Media Matters, explains what the new January 6th revelations say about the state of Fox News. Listen.
Anne Helen-Peterson [@annehelen], writer and journalist, on why the profile of Jeremy Strong in The New Yorker struck a chord. Listen.
Bobby Finger [@bobbyfinger] and Lindsey Weber [@lindseyweber], co-hosts of the podcast "Who? Weekly," talk about the scrappy, B-list celebrities do for fame. Listen.
Music:
Il Casanova di Federico Fellini by Nina RotaPaperback Writer by Quartetto dell'Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe VerdiThe Art Of War by Richard BeddowInvestigations by Kevin MacLeodNewsreel by Randy NewmanHard Times by Leftover Salmon
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's on the media, as the capital was breached, Fox News hosts were on the air |
| 0:06.1 | blaming Antifa and left-wing infiltrators. |
| 0:09.5 | It is stunning though to think that at the same time that they were doing that, they were |
| 0:12.7 | texting Mark Meadows to appeal to him to get Trump to call this offer dialet back. |
| 0:18.2 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:22.1 | Plus, the highs and lows of the celebrity profile, one red flag that it might be a low |
| 0:28.8 | and extensive description of what a celebrity is eating, because that almost always means |
| 0:34.6 | that the profile has only been given like an hour. |
| 0:38.2 | And look at how fame changed during the pandemic with wannabe's taking center stage in |
| 0:43.8 | place of absent a-listers. |
| 0:45.9 | Yes, being famous for being famous is an accurate portrayal of what they do, but also being |
| 0:52.0 | famous is a job and it's a hilarious one. |
| 0:55.1 | It's all coming up after this. |
| 1:01.4 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 1:06.6 | As the dust was settling on the capital grounds on January 6th after the attempted insurrection, |
| 1:13.4 | the hosts of Fox News were already weighing in with their branded bunkum. |
| 1:18.6 | There are some reports that Antifa sympathizers may have been sprinkled throughout the crowd. |
| 1:24.3 | The capital was under siege by people who can only be described as antithetical to the |
| 1:29.7 | magma movement. |
| 1:30.7 | They knew there were hundreds of thousands of people that came to town. |
| 1:34.2 | We also knew that there's always bad actors that will infiltrate large crowds. |
| 1:39.5 | I don't care if they're radical, left radical, right? |
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