Performative Politics
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
AOC’s fake cuffs, the New Yorker gets its own Feliciz Sonmez, and it turns out many Americans are consuming no news.
Time Stamps:
00:24 - Introduction
02:43 - Front Page
32:00 - Obsessions
45:06 - Reader Mail
51:21 - Favorite Item of the Week
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Show Notes:
The Washington Post: Opinion | How media coverage drove Biden’s political plunge
CJR: ‘Blowtorch Britain’ captures global attention
New York Times: CNN Chairman Chris Licht Picks Leadership Team for Post-Zucker Era
CNN: “Boxing” video
New York Times: Wake Up, Billionaires: The Occupiers Are Coming for the Hamptons
Fox News: Tucker: This is a book-length suck-up to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Reuters Institute: Overview and key findings of the 2022 Digital News Report
WMC-TV: Rep. Bennie Thompson tests positive for COVID-19, White House hearing continues in his absence
The Guardian: Mortgage strikes threaten China’s economic and political stability
The New York Times: Opinion | What It Means to See America in Person
Transcript
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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. Hi, I'm Chris |
| 0:24.0 | Steyerwalt. And I'm Aliana Johnson. Therefore, you must be at ink-stained wretches, where we |
| 0:29.7 | break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:33.7 | Bomb, bum, bum, bum. Just as we were beginning our recording, the news broke that President Biden has been infected with the coronavirus, the novel coronavirus and is experiencing mild symptoms. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm watching right now as you are surfing Twitter for all of the latest reacts to the president's illness. So I thought I would just |
| 0:56.5 | disclose that at the beginning. Cancer plus COVID. |
| 1:00.2 | Oh. Can't be good. Oh, poor Joe. And they've gone to such extraordinary length, all of the |
| 1:07.8 | masking, all of the everything to prevent it. And I hope he is, |
| 1:12.7 | I hope he is just fine. I hope that it's, it's only mild. Tushay. Tusha. I have some good news. |
| 1:21.2 | What do you got? I was approached. Okay. And asked, what are your tan drops? You look so glowing. |
| 1:28.5 | That's the good news. |
| 1:29.6 | I'm leading with the positive. |
| 1:30.9 | Was that as a result of our discussion about your tanning drops? |
| 1:33.7 | Yes, it was. |
| 1:34.6 | Very nice. |
| 1:35.7 | The bad news is it was a close colleague. |
| 1:38.1 | It wasn't like, you know, a stranger on the street. |
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