Hello, media consumers. Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of The Ring are here. This is

the press box coming up on today's show. We answer your listener mail, Liz Power of

Media Matters joins us to talk about why cable news can't cover immigration or just about

anything else. And Kevin Clark stops by to talk about the new NFL TV deals. But David,

it's Thursday. So why don't we answer a little listener mail by all means. All right, David,

listeners, Alex and I and KV had the same question about Andrew Cuomo. Remundays podcast

isn't the intermediate step between governor and disgraced former governor actually imbattled

governor. Yeah. And I was on the verge of bringing it up during the last show. Embattled

is a great one. Embattled is fantastic. Embattled is, well, we're talking about trying to figure

out words. What is the journal, what is the journalism tool version of a weasel word?

Is it just a weasel word? Embattled, it's not just that embattled is sort of vague enough

to accomplish whatever you want. It's that it means it very pointedly means either this

person is trash or this person is is under fire for something they don't deserve to be

under fire for depending on the rest of the words and the headline or in the lead, right?

Like it means totally different things depending on the audience and the subject.

Is anybody embattled in real life or are you just embattled in the pages of a newspaper?

Rob playing games notwithstanding. I think that you're only embattled within the pages of

a newspaper and you're really only embattled when you're on the trajectory to being disgraced.

Right? Or vindicated. I guess vindicated would be the other option, but you're only embattled

as a sort of like a transitory period that doesn't really hold, that doesn't really,

you know, hold enough for another descriptor. It's kind of like the word estranged.

You see a strange journalism. Nobody says, oh, my estranged former wife or my estranged uncle,

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