It's a Matter of Trust
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Facebook ignites a moral panic in the media, Tucker Carlson prepares to air special on Jan. 6 as "false flag," and the NYT tells us how and why Gen Z is owning the millennials.
Times
- 4:23 - Segment: Front Page
- 4:31 - Trailer for Tucker Carlson's Fox Nation special
- 10:44 - National Institute of Health funded gain-of-function research
- 13:31 - Wall Street Journal publishes Donald Trump letter
- 14:00 - The Facebook Papers
- 19:09 - Newsbusters on media outlets "hiding" coverage of Virginia governor's race
- 23:54 - Norah O'Donnell is on the chopping block at CBS News
- 25:35 - Tweet from CNN's Kasie Hunt on the reconciliation bill
- 28:49 - Segment: Obsessions
- 28:59 - New York Magazine on Matt Taibbi (Chris)
- 34:09 - Media outlets adopt lucrative advertising model (Eliana)
- 38:00 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 38:12 - AEI Virginia Conversation (Chris)
- 38:50 - Millennials afraid of GenZ (Eliana)
Links
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New York Magazine article on Matt Taibbi
New York Times article on millennials vs. Gen-Z in the office
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 Hatton. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.1 | Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt. |
| 0:24.6 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:26.0 | And welcome to Ink-Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:32.5 | Chris, before we get to the substance, how are you? |
| 0:36.7 | Well, we're recording a day late this week, and so I'm sorry to our huge throng of incredibly devoted fans out there. |
| 0:45.2 | We were just mobbed with inquiries this morning about why we had. |
| 0:50.6 | Getting out of the back of the Uber, you know, the paparazzi was out there. |
| 0:53.8 | Where was inkstained wretches originally? |
| 0:56.9 | So I am sorry about that. |
| 0:58.0 | But I am thrilled about the fact that it is fall in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:04.2 | Autumnal splendor. |
| 1:05.8 | Pumpkins have been carved. |
| 1:07.0 | I will share on my Instagram page this year's pumpkins. |
| 1:10.2 | Looking good, feeling good. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm not at a pumpkin carving stage yet. Did you ever? You had absent kids. Yeah, I did it when |
| 1:19.2 | I was a kid. When you were a kid, that was a part of the tradition. Yeah. Yeah, I think, and I, I'm going to |
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