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Ink Stained Wretches

Quarter Zip, Full Freakout: Press nuts for Santos

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.7716 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We’ve got a BIG front page this week. From $50 million contract disputes to shrinking news rooms, media companies are feeling the heat this week. We also want to give a major shoutout to all of those who sent us their media swag. Keep it coming!


If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at wretches@nebulouspodcasts.com.


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Time Stamps: 

02:19 Front Page

50:19 Obsessions

55:44 Reader Mail 

1:00:47 Favorite Item of the Week 


Show Notes: 

NYT: Jeff Bezos Visits The Washington Post as Layoffs Loom

NYT: Washington Post Lays Off 20 Journalists

WaPo:Opinion section at The Washington Post expands its roster with seven new contributors

NYT: Media Start-Up Semafor Plans to Buy Out Sam Bankman-Fried’s Investment 

NYT: Rupert Murdoch Backtracks on Plan to Merge Fox and News Corp

Daily Beast: Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight Are on ABC’s Chopping Block 

Mediaite: Steven Crowder Daily Wire Rant Epitomizes Conservative Betrayal Complex 

American Firebrand on Twitter: “Tucker's full monologue exposing the deep state's control over the government: "Permanent Washington is in charge”

WaPo: Opinion | Tucker Carlson's messages with Alex Jones are revealed: 3 takeaways

CBS News: M&M's puts spokescandies on "indefinite pause" in wake of uproar over changes to green M&M 

NYT: Good morning. “The 1619 Project” continues to provoke national debate about race and history.

WaPo: Doomsday Clock hits 90 seconds to midnight, its most dire prediction eve

Newsweek: I'm Gay. Leave Ivan Provorov Alone | Opinion

WSJ: The Chess World’s New Villain: A Cat Named Mittens

NYT: Opinion | Nancy Pelosi, Liberated and Loving It

NBC News: Highlights from the Ticketmaster hearing: Senators criticize 'monopoly' over Taylor Swift fiasco 

Fox News: Longtime Fox News Channel executive Alan Komissaroff dead at 47 

Free Beacon: Al Sharpton, Lionized

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.

0:23.6

Hi, I'm Chris Dyerwald.

0:25.3

And I'm Eliana Johnson.

0:26.6

Welcome to Inkstein Wretches.

0:28.8

We break down what's going wrong and, in fact, what is going right with the American News Media.

0:34.4

Eliana Johnson, let me tell you something.

0:36.1

I've got good news for you, bad news for me.

0:40.2

So leaving church on Sunday, my pastor said he was there with his lovely wife.

0:47.4

So David and Jennifer Glade.

0:49.4

And David said, oh, I've convinced Jennifer to start listening to ink-stained wretches.

0:54.6

And I said, I was immediately scared like, oh, no, oh, I've convinced Jennifer to start listening to ink-stained wretches. And I said, I was immediately scared, like, oh, no, like, what is it that we've been saying?

1:00.4

And what is it that Eliana has been saying, indeed, that might offend the tender ears of these Anglicans?

1:06.9

And do you know, and I was like, oh, boy, I hope it wasn't too spicy.

1:09.9

You know what they said?

1:10.9

They love you.

1:11.9

They adore you.

1:12.9

You are beloved by clergy and clergy spouse.

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