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Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what is going wrong and what is going

right with the American news media.

Welcome to the Inkstained Wretches interview, a series that we hope to continue beyond my

maternity leave and into the new year. My old friend Alex Thompson, who is White House correspondent

for Politico and the author of the much read. And if you don't read it already, the West Wing

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happy to welcome him now. Alex, welcome. And thank you for doing this. I'm so glad to be here.

Alex, we are going to start off with the softball. So tell us and our listenership, who are you? Where did

you grow up? And how did you end up as a reporter?

So names Alex. I grew up in Southern California, just like the, you know, the suburbs of L.A.,

like Ventura County area. And I became a reporter sort of by haphazardly and by guess in check.

I'd basically graduated college in 2011,

never having really done any journalism in high school or college and then basically

just did a bunch of jobs for a few years. Now, I'd grown up, I'd grown up Mormon and like a

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