How Not to Moderate a Debate. Plus: Hollywood’s Starless Profiles and the Death of a Lousy Sportswriter.

The Press Box

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Sports

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Bryan and David discuss takeaways from the first GOP political debate, from the moderator’s performance to Ron DeSantis’s approach to Chris Christie’s role in the race (8:56). Later, they touch on the news that the Texas Tribune has made layoffs, then review the death of the magazine profile and identify more only-in-journalism words (32:48). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Craig Horlbeck from The Ringer Fantasy Football Show.
0:04.4	Join me, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you
0:09.0	win your draft, win your league, and most importantly, avoid that last place punishment.
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0:17.1	David?
0:18.1	Yes.
0:19.1	So, if you follow me on Twitter, you know that I often pay my respects to departed sports
0:27.5	writers.
0:28.5	Oh, yeah, of course.
0:29.8	Everybody passes away and beaverton or, again, and I just put a little tweet up that salutes
0:34.9	his service or her service to the community.
0:37.8	All those years spent toiling in press boxes.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:41.1	Well, today I have another sports writing death to announce, okay.
0:46.6	But this was not someone who was a benign influence in the world of letters.
0:53.1	No, David, this is someone who wanted to take your job and my job.
0:57.4	This is someone who was an asshole.
0:59.8	It was the AI bot that was generating high school gamers in newspapers around the country.
1:11.5	Oh, yeah.
1:12.9	Okay.
1:13.9	This is taken.
1:14.9	I was kind of worried about where we were going with this.
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