Of Fools in Pools

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Happy Saturday from your favorite band of Wretches! We’re diving deep into the latest from the White House Press Pool, Jake Tapper’s Biden book, shake-ups at MSNBC, and a true obsession with Gene Hackman. Wretch on! Time Stamps: 2:36 - Front Page 42:25 - Obsessions 55:09 - Reader Mail 57:37 - Favorite Items National Journal: White House wrests control of pool coverage away from reporters Axios: Judge upholds Trump's right to block AP for now Semafor: Reuters and Associated Press among outlets barred from Trump’s first cabinet meeting The Dispatch: Donald Trump, Woodrow Wilson, and the Problems of a Free Press Reason: Trump tries to carve out a First Amendment exception for 'fake news' The Washington Free Beacon: MNSBC's Newest Anchor Eugene Daniels Is a 'Kamala Harris Expert' and 'Walking Beyoncé Encyclopedia' Who Has Revolutionized the DC Fashion Scene The Hollywood Reporter: Trump Targets Comcast CEO Brian Roberts As MSNBC Plans New Lineup The New York Post: Jen Psaki comes out on top of MSNBC shakeup as network axes shows by 3 more lefty anchors, Joy Reid ouster The New York Post: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow rips own network for axing Joy Reid's show and other 'non-white' hosts' programs The New York Times: Lester Holt to Leave ‘NBC Nightly News’ Anchor Role Unherd: Jeff Bezos rebrands Washington Post as billionaire's think tank Good Morning America: How a community rallied for trans and nonbinary recovery homes following LA fires The New York Times: In an Age of Right-Wing Populism, Why Are Denmark’s Liberals Winning? The New York Times: Gene Hackman, Hollywood’s Consummate Everyman, Dies at 95 The Atlantic: How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left The Wall Street Journal: The Business Conference Where Dignity Goes to Die

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0:00.0	Is there anything you would have done differently?
0:02.0	We 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. Hi, I am Chris
0:25.0	Nyarwal. And I'm Eleana Johnson. Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going
0:29.9	wrong and what's going right, in fact, with the American News Media. And Eliana Johnson,
0:35.3	do you know why I do this podcast? Fill us in. Well, there are many
0:41.5	good reasons to do the podcast. I do really love our listeners and I love meeting them and hearing
0:46.9	from them and interacting with them. They're the of all the people who, and I shouldn't say this,
0:51.1	but of all the folks who consume the vast rivers of content that I produce,
0:56.7	the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I enjoy, I enjoy them the most.
1:02.2	That is for sure. And no, I don't say that to all of the content consumers. And I do it
1:07.3	because it's a great opportunity to schedule time with a friend to see you and talk
1:12.5	to you and do that stuff.
1:14.3	But mostly I do it because I came to understand and believe that media criticism was
1:20.5	necessary and important.
1:22.1	I wrote a book about it.
1:23.4	I did all that stuff.
1:25.2	But I don't think that it should, in fact, everything else that everybody does.
1:30.8	Because I don't like for the press to be the story.
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