Mandatory Joy
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
If you work at NPR, be ready to spread joy as far as possible. And if you work at another news outlet, don’t be too objective, or Morning Joe will come after you. This week, we’re covering the best, worst, and weirdest happenings in the news media with our friend Christine Rosen, who has a new book coming out called The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World. You can find it on Amazon. And as always, Wretch on!
Time Stamps:
7:00 Front Page
1:08:17 Obsessions
1:18:26 Favorite Items
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Show Notes:
Christine Rosen: The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
NBC News: Trump and Harris campaigns agree to rules for ABC debate
New York Times: Trump Campaign Uses Statements From Gold Star Families to Attack Harris
Politico: ‘Next Question’: Harris evades questions about her identity
The Nation: The Dark Side of the Democratic Party’s Embrace of Football
The New York Times: The Political Rage of Left-Behind Regions
National Review: People Who Care About Winning Don't Shoot the Messenger
Bloomberg: National Public Radio Confronts Election Season With a ‘Joy Czar’
The New York Times: U.S. Announces Plan to Counter Russian Influence Ahead of 2024 Election
CNN: Reliable Sources
Commentary Magazine: Helter Stelter
The New York Times: I Swore Off Air-Conditioning, and You Can, Too
The Washington Post: The Marshmallow Test and other predictors of success have bias built in, researchers say
The Washington Post: These are the asteroids that scare scientists. Are we prepared for them?
Obsessions:
The Free Press: Pseudo-Scholars and the Rise of the Barbarian Right
The Dispatch: A Nonbinary Choice
Kicker: Favorite Items of the Week:
The New York Times: The Best Books About Politics
The Wall Street Journal: The Soap Bubble of Kamala Harris’s Campaign
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 Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.8 | Hi, I'm Chris Stierwald. |
| 0:25.9 | And I am not Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:27.8 | True. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to the Inkstein Wretches podcast where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:36.3 | And Wretches, El Rechos, you're in for a treat. You know her, |
| 0:41.1 | you love her, Christine Rosen. Christine is my colleague here at the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:46.2 | She is one of the co-hosts of the commentary podcast. She is wonderful in, in every, mother, martial arts, enthusiast, funny person, cool chick, |
| 0:58.8 | all around good human. |
| 1:00.4 | Christine Rosen, welcome back. |
| 1:01.4 | I want to bring you with me on the road. |
| 1:03.3 | This is a very nice introduction. |
| 1:04.5 | I appreciate it. |
| 1:05.5 | But it's all very, it's all very true. |
| 1:08.7 | And Internet, you are listening to Christine as she gets ready to run the |
| 1:13.4 | gauntlet of a book tour. And I hope that no one takes this the wrong way. But of the indignities |
| 1:23.8 | that one is subjected to in a public life. A book tour is something special. And |
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