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Hello, media consumers. Brian Curtis and David Schumacher of the Ringer here.

This is a press box and on today's agenda, David, we will touch on a media matchup for our times

Ben Smith of the New York Times challenging the reporting of the New Yorker's Ronan Faroe.

And speaking of the New Yorker, our Monday interview is with the great Lawrence Wright,

who has just published a novel about a worldwide pandemic. Where does that sound familiar?

Why did a nonfiction master turn to fiction?

Plus, David guesses a strain pun headline and the overworked Twitter joke of the week.

But David, let's start with some final thoughts on ESPN's Michael Jordan documentary, The Last Dance,

which stopped its amazing five week run as a content machine on Sunday night.

The first question, what are we, meaning the collective sports media, going to talk about now,

that we don't have two new hours in the last dance to satisfy us every Sunday night.

It's a really good question. This is all of the kind of monocultural high points of the coronavirus period.

This was the one that we definitely saw coming. I mean, obviously it was announced that they were

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