Murdoch Outfoxed?

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off with the biggest story in American news media: the Murdoch family. We’re also discussing Hamas, Ukraine, and Mayor Karen Bass’s masterclass in spin. Wretch on! Timestamps: 4:28 - Front Page 46:35 - Obsessions 55:55 - Reader Mail 57:21 - Favorite Items Show Notes: The Atlantic: Growing Up Murdoch The New York Times: ‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama The New York Times: Hamas Releases What It Said Were the Bodies of 4 Israeli Hostages Free Beacon: WATCH: As Gazans Celebrate the Murder of Jewish Women and Children, NPR Calls the Scenes 'More Somber and Much Less Celebratory' Commentary Magazine: What Did Trump Just Say About Ukraine? WHAT??? The Wall Street Journal: How the Trumps Turned an Election Victory Into a Cash Bonanza The New York Times: How Trump’s Directives Echo Project 2025 The Hill: Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order Jeremy Barr on X: NBCUniversal is settling a lawsuit filed by obstetrician gynecologist Mahendra Amin Collin Rug on X: NEW: LA Mayor Karen Bass says she’s investigating why she was allowed to go on a trip to Ghana days before the LA fires. The New York Times: As a White Man, Can I Date Women of Color to Advance My Antiracism? NPR: Performers protest Trump leadership at Kennedy Center with dance CBS News: Online searches for gambling addiction surge as sports betting expands, study finds The New York Times: What Should I Wear to Protest an Unspoken Dress Code? The Telegraph: Margaret Brennan's CBS humiliation exposed everything that's wrong with the Left-wing media The New York Post: CBS News exec Adrienne Roark, who reprimanded anchor over Israel interview, plans to exit network The Wall Street Journal: Inside Amazon’s Messy Push to Bring Everyone Back to the Office I Might Be Wrong on Substack: I’m Such a Hopeless Libtard That It Bothers Me When We Side With the Authoritarian Predator State The New York Times: Art Adviser. Friend. Thief.

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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.
0:23.4	Hello, I'm Chris Starwald. And I'm Eliana Johnson.
0:26.6	Welcome to Inkstain Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right
0:30.7	with the American news media. And Eliana Johnson, I got to tell you, I'm on one.
0:38.7	I'm on one yet again.
0:47.7	And I finally figured out the linguistic abuse that offends me most, or the common linguistic abuse that offends me most.
0:50.2	And I observed, I was at the airport this week, and I observed a young man, we'll call,
0:56.6	we'll call it 30, right, with his wife.
1:00.8	And he was wearing athletic shoes and, you know, whatever, fleece and whatever, which I
1:09.0	totally accept as they're going on vacation. He's not traveling
1:13.1	for work. Fine. I live in the world as it is. But he was sitting there looking at his phone
1:18.8	and his wife who was carrying at least half of their capacious amount of luggage asked him what he wanted for breakfast as they sat by the
1:30.4	gate. Now, I have qualms about sending your wife or significant other, a man sending his wife
1:38.2	or significant other, to bring him breakfast like a child. Why? Because he's the one who should be getting her breakfast, not she getting him breakfast.
1:47.0	Oh, I would totally go grab breakfast at the airport.
1:50.0	Well, that's, but I make allowances for it because if she was going to go to the lavatory,
1:56.0	or she was going, if she had something else to do, he was going to pick it up, fine. That's fine.
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