Newsroom Rebellions
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The NPR rebellion continues this week on Ink Stained Wretches. We’re also covering infighting at The New York Times, Trump trial coverage and the emerging trend of sexless marriages. Wretch on!
2:29 Front Page
50:27 Obsessions
57:39 Reader Mail
4:34 Favorite Items
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Show Notes:
NPR: NPR editor Uri Berliner resigns with blast at new CEO
NYPost: NPR's new CEO Katherine Maher scrubs hyper-partisan posts: 'Trump is a racist'
NPR: From NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher: Thoughts on our mission and our work
Politico: The Real Reason NPR Squashed Uri Berliner
I Might Be Wrong on Substack: GUEST COLUMN: Who the Fuck Did You THINK Ran NPR?
Slate: NPR: The public broadcaster’s problems are deeper than “wokeness.”
WSJ: New York Times Bosses Seek to Quash Rebellion in the Newsroom
USA Today: Media is playing right into Trump's hands with jury selection as jurors become targets
NYTimes: Can a Sexless Marriage Be a Happy One?
NYTimes: One Thing Parents Can Control
WSJ: She’s One of the Greatest Basketball Players Ever. She’s an Even Better Coach.
NYTimes: The Biden Guide to Dressing Younger
Axios: Exclusive: Grindr plans to offer a pocket "gayborhood"
ABC News: Red Lobster eyes bankruptcy option after $11M in losses from endless shrimp
WaPo: They criticized Israel. This Twitter account upended their lives.
Commentary Mag: Media Revive the Classic ‘Jewish Oppressor’ Stereotype
The Atlantic: What the Upper-Middle-Class Left Doesn’t Get About Inflation
SNL: Beavis and Butthead
WSJ: A Day in the Life of a Walmart Manager Who Makes $240,000 a Year
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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. |
| 0:23.3 | Hi, I am Chris Stierwald. |
| 0:26.2 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:28.0 | Welcome to Ink-Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:37.1 | Eliana Johnson, I am just back from a trip to Alabama, where I talked to some very |
| 0:44.9 | impressive, very encouraging young people at the University of Alabama who were there for |
| 0:50.2 | You back in Tuscaloosa? |
| 0:52.2 | I was back in our old stomping grounds. |
| 0:54.9 | Yes. |
| 0:55.7 | And I was there for the American Enterprise Institute and talking to some very impressive. |
| 1:01.9 | Every time, I'm sure you have the same experience, every time I get to work with young people, I have more hope about the future, right? |
| 1:10.2 | And I know it's a self-selected group, |
| 1:14.7 | but I'm always impressed and come away feeling better about the future. You know, this is why we work |
| 1:20.6 | well together, because you say you talk to young people and, and feel that way. And I maybe feel that way |
| 1:27.2 | about like 5% of the young people I talk to. And the other 95% |
| 1:32.7 | I think, kids are so stupid and don't know anything. Well, I was stupid. I was stupid and I didn't know |
| 1:41.4 | anything. Sure. But the appetite for, and I noticed this when I was a fellow at Georgetown and I noticed this |
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