Our Media Apocalypse, NFL Championship Game TV Notes, and the Feel-Bad Presidential Election

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Bryan and David begin the episode discussing cuts that major publications have been making over the last two weeks, and what it means for the future of journalism (0:37). Then, they discuss the fun sounds from both the AFC and NFC championship games, including Phil Simms being the voice of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s on-field celebration (19:11). Later, they discuss the creative ways that political writers are describing the upcoming election (47:57). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week, and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Brian H. Waters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	David?
0:38.0	Yes.
0:40.0	We got to begin by talking about what has happened to our profession over the last two weeks.
0:47.6	Yeah. I don't think there's anything else to talk about and rather than having a conversation on a 30,000 foot here's
0:56.2	what went wrong level I'd love to have it on a human level yeah and as a journalistic human, let me just begin by saying,
1:06.0	what's happening to our business?
1:09.0	This business we love is fucking horrible.
1:13.0	And in addition to that, it is fucking terrifying.
1:18.0	Yeah.
1:20.0	Just in the last two weeks cuts at the LA Times, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated,
1:29.2	Business Insider, Conde Nast coming, I mean could go on and on and on. I mean we've seen a lot of bad journalism news in our time.
1:42.0	Yeah.
1:43.0	We've never seen anything like this in a concentrated period.
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