How to Win Friends and Influence Coverage
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
This week we’re diving deep into the relationships between journalists and politicians. Plus Don Lemon gets a history lesson, and more drama in the world chess.
Time Stamps:
00:23 Introduction
03: 22 Front Page
33:14 Obsessions
40:24 Reader Mail
47:37 Favorite Item of the Week
Show Notes:
60 Minutes: President Joe Biden: The 2022
Politico: Nina Totenberg Had a Beautiful Friendship With RBG. Her Book About It Is an Embarrassment.
Daily Beast: Bret Baier Wanted Fox to Rescind Arizona Call, 'Put It Back' in Trump's 'Column'
Puck: The WaPo’s Post-Trump Blues Continue
WaPo: Youngkin’s meeting with Va. delegation gets heated over trans policy
Christiane Amanpour on Twitter
CNN: Don Lemon on Reparations video
NYT: How Russian Trolls Helped Keep the Women’s March Out of Lock Step
Tablet Mag: Is the Women's March Melting Down?
WSJ: The Question Behind the Magnus Carlsen-Hans Niemann Drama: How to Cheat at Chess?
Washingtonian: Confirmed: Maryland Drivers Are Worse Than Virginia Drivers
If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at wretches@nebulouspodcasts.com
Transcript
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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. Hello, I'm Chris |
| 0:24.9 | Steyerwalt. And I'm Eliana Johnson. Heck yeah, you are. Welcome to L. Inkstained |
| 0:30.0 | Retcho's, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American |
| 0:35.2 | news media. Eliana Johnson, let me tell you something. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm tired. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm not in a good place right now. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm in a very good place because I'm with you. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm here. |
| 0:45.7 | You're awesome and your awesome spectacles that I've never seen before. |
| 0:48.8 | Delirious, Chris, has already been like a more candid Chris, so I think we're going to go good places. |
| 0:54.4 | It's going to be I did a podcast in the last week in the past week where they emailed me |
| 1:01.6 | and by the way thanks to everybody who's already purchased broken news by a backup copy in case you |
| 1:07.1 | wear your first one out but I did a podcast and I got an email from the people that I did the podcast with. |
| 1:12.0 | And I was like, did I do that podcast? |
| 1:13.9 | Is that something that I actually recorded? |
| 1:15.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:15.9 | Cool, cool, cool, cool. |
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