Media's Midterm Misses

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the otherside of the midterms! Eliana opens with her soliloquy on the election before we jump into events that unfolded Tuesday night. We’re also checking on twitter and DeSantis’s past. Receive show notes directly in your inbox, subscribe to the newsletter here. If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at [email protected] Time Stamps: 5:05 Front Page 35:49 Obsessions 45:43 Reader Mail 51:38 Favorite Item of the Week Show Notes: Popular Information: Political media is broken New York Times: 5 Ways To Soothe Election Stress New York Times: A rare win for MSNBC over CNN in the election night ratings battle. CNN: Fact check: Biden's midterms message includes false and misleading claims New York Post: Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms WSJ: Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser WSJ: The GOP’s Midterm Failure WSJ: Mike Pence: My Last Days With Donald Trump The New York Times: Resistance to Misinformation Is Weakening on Twitter, a Report Found The New York Times: How Molly Jong-Fast Tweeted Her Way to Liberal Media Stardom The Washington Post: NBC retracts erroneous Paul Pelosi story that fueled conspiracy theories The Dispatch: Radical Kooks Axios: The new seaplane between D.C. and New York is a blast Washington Post: Ron DeSantis, who denounced Disney, actually got married there The New York Times: Pranks, Parties and Politics: Ron DeSantis’s Year as a Schoolteacher Wall Street Journal: How 2022 Midterm Polls Performed in Senate Races New York Times: 40 Chickens in 40 Days: How a Philadelphia Man Cheered His City WSJ: FTX Tapped Into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Setting Up Its Downfall Bloomberg Law: Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: FTX Had a Death Spiral CNBC: Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried blames himself for FTX's collapse, admits he 'f---ed up'

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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.
0:22.6	Hi, I am Chris Stierwald.
0:26.3	And I'm Aliana Johnson.
0:27.8	Welcome to L. Inkstein-Rechos, where we break down what's going wrong.
0:32.0	And, by the way, what's going right with the American News Media.
0:36.1	Oh, Eliana Johnson, election week.
0:38.9	We can heave a sigh of relief.
0:40.7	Heave something.
0:41.8	I'll tell you what.
0:42.3	That it's over.
0:43.6	Don't be sorry that it was over.
0:46.1	Be happy that it ever happened at all.
0:48.4	I am heaving a sigh that it's over.
0:51.3	But welcome to the post-election edition of Wretches. We can start with so much discussion of election coverage.
1:00.0	We're not even going to talk about the Inkstein Wretches newsletter. I.L. Retcho's. We're not going to talk about McRib coverage. We're not going to talk about what you ate on election night.
1:08.4	What did I eat on election night? We had a big Mexican spread.
1:12.3	Oh, did you have, did the free beacon gather together, or did you do this at home?
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