Media Grinches Steal Christmas
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With layoffs at Wapo, Tucker attacking Zelenskyy, and an ABC producer going rogue, the holiday season is less than jolly for the media. Tune in to also catch up on Disney drama and the menopause gold rush.
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Time Stamps:
2:12 - Front Page
34:52 - Obsessions
42:08 - Reader Mail
44:50 - Favorite Items of the Week
Show Notes:
Politico: Playbook PM: WaPo braces for more layoffs
Puck: Post-Apocalyptic
WaPo: Your 2022 News Print
NYT: In Testimony, Hannity and Other Fox Employees Said They Doubted Trump’s Fraud Claims
WSJ: Bob Iger vs. Bob Chapek: Inside the Disney Coup
Hollywood Reporter: Disney Analyst: Spinning Off ESPN, ABC Is “Best Path Forward”
NPR: She was an ABC News producer. She also was a corporate operative
Slate: I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema’s Side Hustle
WSJ: The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words
Yahoo: 'Disgusting!': 'New York Times' slammed after crossword puzzle resembles swastika
NYT: Welcome to the Menopause Gold Rush
Coindesk: Divisions in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Blur on His Trading Titan Alameda’s Balance Sheet
The Economist: Crypto’s last man standing
WSJ: The 30-Year-Old Spending $1 Billion to Save Crypto
Bloomberg: This Crypto CEO Says He Made $20 Billion Just to Give it All Away
WSJ: Tech Live summit: What’s Next for Crypto
Dispatch: Life Is Too Short For Hating Harry & Meghan
New York Magazine: Fall of the Progressive Boy King
NY Post: Man with WWI explosive lodged in his rectum sparks bomb scare, hospital evacuation
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 Pomo is having a moment. |
| 0:22.5 | Hello. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Chris Stierwalt. |
| 0:25.2 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to Grinch-Stand wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:37.3 | Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:39.0 | It is Thursday before Christmas here in our nation's capital. |
| 0:44.0 | And the zombie apocalypse energy in D.C. is strong. |
| 0:47.6 | It's a rainy day. |
| 0:49.2 | And I love D.C. |
| 0:50.3 | Everything canceled. |
| 0:51.4 | I had my main children and I this morning were watching the local news |
| 0:55.5 | because I guess I have low standards. |
| 0:58.8 | No, I kid, I kid, I kid. |
| 1:00.1 | But the number of cancellations today, I'm like, it's just raining. |
| 1:04.6 | It's 40 degrees. |
| 1:05.5 | What are you doing? |
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