Oscars Takes, Hope Hicks's Exit, and Lack of Institutional Control | The Press Box (Ep. 438)

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Ringer's Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down the handling of the Academy Awards (01:45), what Hope Hicks's White House departure means for the press (22:45), and the FBI vs. the University of Arizona by way of ESPN and Mark Schlabach (35:30). Read Miles Surrey's "The Winners and Losers of the 2018 Academy Awards" here: https://t.co/FR1HeJsNqi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	David, we're going to talk about the ESPN University of Arizona College basketball, TED
0:06.4	on TED.
0:07.4	But it got me wondering, what would so-called impermissible benefits look like for sports
0:13.9	writers?
0:14.9	A lot of sports writers, they're the permissible benefits or why you get into it, right?
0:19.4	You get to go to games for free.
0:21.2	You get to sit in relatively good seats.
0:23.0	Sure.
0:24.0	I mean, I guess if it was like you're sitting in the press box and I don't know, the home
0:27.8	team had like, msousses there, like trying to like butter you, I don't know what it would
0:32.9	be.
0:33.9	Like, what else could they possibly give you?
0:34.9	Yeah, that sounds like the open bar in the 70s.
0:36.4	I'm thinking like, media in 2017 is so skimpy.
0:39.5	And so, you know, it's paired down to like, pins and notebooks.
0:43.7	And permissible benefits, right?
0:46.2	Here is a fax.
0:47.2	Give us anything.
0:49.2	Without making you pay for it.
0:51.2	This is the press box on the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:58.8	The press box is the media podcast where you're not allowed to regard great moments in
1:03.1	American life.
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