Slate Money Goes to the Movies: The Insider
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Slate Money crew is joined by a familiar voice in Jordan Weissmann to discuss “The Insider”. They talk about the many conflicts of interest, how to make journalism look interesting, and the problem with Michael Mann movies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Slate Money Goes to the Movies. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm here with Elizabeth Spires of Slate in New York Times and places like that. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:32.2 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:33.5 | We are going to talk about The Insider, which is one of the best films from the best year for cinema in basically our entire lives, 1999, the Anas Maribulus of movie years. |
| 0:51.6 | And to talk about it, all longtime Slate Money listeners will be overjoyed by this one. |
| 0:58.8 | We have the OG Slate Money co-host back for the first time in some time. Jordan Weissman, |
| 1:06.1 | welcome. Thanks for having me. We are excited to have you. |
| 1:12.9 | Tell the folks, like, because you're not even at Slate anymore, what's your life like these days? |
| 1:19.1 | Most of the life. |
| 1:21.7 | It's the grind of editing copy about Congress. |
| 1:25.2 | Now, so these days I am the Washington editor at Semaphore, which is a news startup that's |
| 1:34.0 | been going for almost exactly one year now. |
| 1:36.2 | If you haven't heard about it, our editor-in-chief is Ben Smith, formerly of BuzzFeed |
| 1:41.2 | in the New York Times. |
| 1:42.7 | And yeah, I mean, these days I just have been |
| 1:45.2 | driving myself crazy watching Congress meltdown in cycles of retribution. Rather you than me. |
| 1:54.5 | That sounds like a terrible job. You had much more fun when you were co-hosting Slate Money. |
| 1:59.6 | I don't know what you were thinking. |
| 2:13.4 | But in any case, let's put all thoughts of American politics out of our mind, at least insofar as they're not relevant to this movie. |
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