Free Speech: Not a ‘Straw Man’
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Aspen Institute takes on “misinformation,” the left wants in on the right’s media “dominance,” and POLITICO fills us in on the mental health travails of State Department employees
Times
- 03:45 - Segment: Front Page
- 03:53 - The federal investigation into Project Veritas and First Amendment questions
- 07:31 - Substack CEO's interview with Substacker Mike Solana
- 11:25 - Aspen Institute commission on disinformation
- 15:17 - One America News Network backs Gigi Sohn, Biden's left-wing nominee to the FCC
- 18:26 - The Daily Beast reports that Newsmax is eyeing former Fox News talent
- 23:15 - Rupert Murdoch bashes Trump for focusing on the past
- 26:15 - Politico's report on Democrats launching left-wing media outlets
- 31:49 - CNN's report on Kamala Harris's tumultuous relationship with the West Wing
- 38:44 - The Washington Post headline on Trump's bureau of land management and racism
- 42:42 - Segment: Obsessions
- 42:53 - Former New York Times CEO says TV news is in "dead trouble" (Chris)
- 47:05 - Politico on State Department officials' mental health the Afghanistan withdraw (Eliana)
- 51:38 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 51:53 - Importance of obituaries (Chris)
- 54:23 - John Malone blasts CNN during CNBC interview (Eliana)
Links
The Washington Post article on Project Veritas and James O'Keefe
Substack CEO's sound off
Politico article on State Department officials' mental health post-Afghanistan withdraw
Poynter article on obituaries
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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 Cuomo is having a moment. Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwell. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to the next day and wretches, where we break down what's going |
| 0:29.6 | wrong and what's going right with the American news media. Chris, we are recording remotely this week. |
| 0:37.4 | I'm about to crack open my diet Dr. Pepper. |
| 0:41.5 | Is it I'm Dr. Pepper or diet or Dr. Pepper zero? |
| 0:46.8 | There is no Dr. Pepper zero. |
| 0:48.5 | Well, there sure is. There's been some innovations taking place and I think you need to become abreast the latest in diet. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm going to shock you with something, which is that I grew up drinking Diet Coke, |
| 1:01.5 | and so I think that shaped my taste. |
| 1:05.5 | Or destroyed them, whatever. |
| 1:07.2 | Right. |
| 1:07.7 | So I don't like regular Coke, and I actually don't like the zero products because they are sweeter. Right. So I don't like regular Coke and I actually don't like the zero products because |
| 1:12.9 | they are sweeter. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I'll tell you what is really good that is hard to find if you can |
| 1:20.1 | still find it at all is tab. Tab is amazing. Tab in the pink can that basically is like, yeah, you're going to get cancer. |
| 1:28.9 | Like basically. |
| 1:29.5 | Tab is so good. |
| 1:31.0 | I totally agree. |
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