Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt with a little note about today's episode. This is the first installment

of the Inkstained Rich's interview. And our first subject is a good one, Ben Smith, who we didn't

know it. But when we recorded this last week was about to become the former media writer for

the New York Times. We didn't, of course, know it, and we didn't have a chance

to ask him lots of questions that we would have about his new startup. But it's a great talk

anyway. I hope you'll enjoy it. Is there anything you would have done differently? We reported

a true story. Our colleague, Brian Williams, is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the

skies over Iraq.

Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past.

Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hannity.

Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.

Hi, I'm Chris Stierwalt.

And I'm Aliana Janssen. to Inkstained Wretches, where we

break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media.

This is the Ink State Wretches interview. We are thrilled to be joined today by New York Times

media columnists and the former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News,

Ben Smith. Ben, thank you so much for doing this. Thank you for having me on. Ben, starting off with

the total softball question. But yeah, who are you? Where did you grow up?

How did you get into journalism?

Let's see.

I am a 45-year-old Brooklyn dad.

Yikes.

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