Fox News’s Succession Battle, Breaking Up Amazon, and Twitter CEO’s Disastrous Q&A
Offline with Jon Favreau
Crooked Media
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Brian Stelter, longtime media journalist and author of the forthcoming Fox News exposé Network of Lies, joins Offline to unpack what Rupert Murdoch’s retirement means for broadcast media, American democracy, and his four kids. Will Fox News look any different with Lachlan at the helm? Could his liberal siblings force a sale to an antagonistic, Swedish CEO? But first, Jon and Max put their heads together to break down how a new agreement on AI helped end the writer’s strike, why the FTC has its knives out for Amazon, and what on earth X CEO Linda Yaccarino was talking about at the Code Conference.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, I said earlier, getting fired was the best thing ever happened to me. |
| 0:02.8 | So was having to get off the news hamster wheel and not have to care so much. |
| 0:07.3 | I used to spend Saturday nights, you know, I'd be in bed. |
| 0:09.9 | I'd be worried about what's going to happen Sunday morning. |
| 0:12.1 | But what should I do on my show? |
| 0:13.2 | What guess should I have on to be off makes me think a lot differently about the news ecosystem and like how |
| 0:19.1 | the news world functions and sometimes doesn't function. |
| 0:22.5 | We oftentimes have the most interest in a news story when there's the least amount of information. |
| 0:27.7 | You know, something's breaking news and you know, we really know absolutely nothing about it. |
| 0:32.0 | But that's what everybody wants to know everything. |
| 0:34.1 | And then by the time we actually know all the facts, |
| 0:36.4 | I'm going to be moved on. |
| 0:37.6 | There's got to be a better way. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm John Favreau. |
| 0:40.5 | Welcome to offline. |
| 0:44.8 | Maybe the airtake this week should be Linda. |
| 0:47.2 | Oh my God. |
| 0:47.8 | You cannot, cannot fucking get enough. |
| 0:52.6 | Welcome to offline. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm John Favreau. |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Max Fisher. |
| 0:55.3 | You just heard Brian Stelter, media reporter. |
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