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Ink Stained Wretches

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Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Eliana is out this week, but we have the great Kevin Williamson stepping in for her. We’re jumping into indictment coverage from the Washington Post and then moving onto Fox News woes, local news “solutions” and closing out the front page with BBLs (Brazilian butt lifts). Wretch on! Time Stamps: 09:16 Front Page 1:13:13 Obsessions 1:21:24 Reader Mail 1:27:27 Favorite Item of the Week If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at [email protected]. Follow us on Instagram @InkStainedWretches Show Notes:  WaPo: Trump insults D.C. to get his trial moved. The city rolls its eyes.  Hollywood Reporter: CNN Overhauls Lineup: Abby Phillip Takes 10 p.m., Laura Coates to Host 11 p.m., New Morning Show Hosts and Weekend Programs NYT: Fox’s Top Lawyer, Viet Dinh, Will Depart Yahoo: 'A dangerous decision': Canadian news is disappearing from Instagram, Facebook  The Atlantic: The Local-News Crisis Is Weirdly Easy to Solve  Kansas Reflector: Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones The Dispatch: The Perils of Activist Journalism  Cincinnati Enquirer: Retired Reds beat writer John Fay's life story is a love story Axios: As BBLs grow more popular, deaths rise in South Florida  APNews: Armed Utah man shot by FBI last week carried AR-15 in 2018 police encounter, records show  The Fire: Don’t tread on my editorial independence  NYTimes: The Frothy Saga of the Jacuzzi Family  The Spectator: Wolves and the Greens: why Germans are flocking to the AfD

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.

0:23.1

Hi, I'm Chris Stairwalt and not Eliana Johnson. And welcome to Inkstained Wretches,

0:28.5

where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media.

0:33.5

Eliana is away from us on what I assume is a fact-finding trip to a Chinese sweatshop somewhere to purchase designer handbags.

0:41.9

So you say, who could you get in Eliana's absence that would be excellent, that would be learned but funny?

0:48.3

But most importantly, a deeply ink-stained wretch, someone who has worked from the local, the international, the

0:56.1

national, from highbrow to lowbrow, everything in between, who has run papers, who has

1:01.3

worked at papers. Kevin Williamson, he is my colleague at the dispatch. He is a man of virtue,

1:09.4

a man of letters who has not ever lost the sensibility of his native

1:13.9

Texas or the newsroom.

1:15.9

Kevin Williamson, thank you for doing this.

1:17.6

Thanks.

1:18.6

I'm kind of a weird person that's used to fill in for Eliana in most contexts, I would

1:23.2

think, but I have actually literally handled ink professionally, so I think that I'm good to go.

1:28.9

And what job did you handle ink professionally?

1:31.2

I was substituting in on a press crew one night.

1:34.1

So I worked as a composing room for him in for a year.

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