Hello and welcome. It's the third hour of the Eric Erickson show. I just wanted to be that guy.

Eric Erickson. Yes, face for radio, voice for print, and you're stuck with me. The full number is

877-9-7-9-7-9-7-37-37-47-4-25. I have learned a lesson over the years.

And it is a lesson that the sooner you internalize it,

the more everything else makes sense in the press.

No, it's not the liberal bias. There is a liberal bias, but it's not that.

It's this. There is no story on heaven or earth or under the earth or in any part between

that the media loves more than a story that makes them the story.

The media loves to be the story.

Look at Jim Acosta at CNN.

Jim Acosta loved to be the story in the era of Donald Trump.

The media loves for it to be about the media. Listen to the commentary in the press about

January 6th. They love to talk to reporters

who were part of the story, who were there.

They love to talk about how

I was there and it's so discombobulating

and I still have PTSD and oh my gosh,

it's just terrible.

They love to be a part of the story.

So Ben Smith, he was the media reporter for the New York Times and I got to admit he was a very good columnist at the New York Times.

He had a quick wit, a sharp eye, and his, his keyboard was on fire when he wrote.

He did a very good job in what he covered. And he is leaving the New York Times.

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