Media's Midterm Misses
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 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.
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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'
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. |
| 0:22.6 | 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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