Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erikson here. The phone number 877979737425 if you want to be on the program.

You know what? We will let you be a little loose on the phones today if you want because we're headed into Christmas.

I'm headed out of town for a few days. Let me give you the programming note before I

begin. And we actually have some news we've got to discuss it at the gate here. But so I will be

gone Monday through Thursday of next week. Employee Christmas present is a trip to hockey game to

Las Vegas. But I will be on Friday here for the Christmas program.

My full interview with Bart Barber of the Southern Baptist Convention will air.

I'll also have Derek Thomas, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina with me.

I was actually going to speak with a Catholic priest. Everything fell through at the end and

was not able to get it taken care of. But they're both Derek and Barter. Great interviews. I'll

be with you as well for walking you through Christmas as I do every year. The full number again,

877973, 7425. Let's begin with the mass temper tantrum.

Here is CNN's one of CNN's reporters. Donnie O'Sullivan. You know, I think one thing that's really

important to stress here is I have a platform. I'm on CNN, but you guys right now,

we are in the privileged position really as journalists where if we want to quit Twitter,

we're still going to be able to report and do our jobs. For a lot of independent freelance

journalists around the world, the reality is they have to be on Twitter because that is where editors and publishers will see their work and might hire them.

I worry about the chilling effect that this might have on those reporters, particularly when you think that Musk also owns these other companies, Tesla and SpaceX.

What if you're in Germany or elsewhere and you're reporting on maybe poor working

conditions? Is he going to come and just stamp you down because he says, oh, that's against the

rules? Okay. The national media is having a temper tantrum because Elon Musk had a temper tantrum.

Elon Musk blocks the coverage of his private Gulf Stream 650.

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