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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A 2020 story about Hunter Biden's hacked laptop keeps finding its way back into the news cycle. On this week's On the Media, a look at Elon Musk's so-called Twitter Files and whether they’re newsworthy. Plus, the meteoric rise and fraught future of HBO, which turned 50 this year.

1. Blake Montgomery [@blakersdozen], tech news editor at Gizmodo, and Olivia Nuzzi [@Olivianuzzi], Washington correspondent for New York Magazine, on the Twitter Files and their relationship to the story of Hunter Biden's laptop. Listen.

2. Christopher Grimes [@grimes_ce], correspondent for the Financial Times, on Disney's foray into the culture wars and its ongoing battle with the governor of Florida. Listen.

3. John Koblin [@koblin], co-author of It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO, on the history and lasting impact of HBO. Listen.

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0:00.0	This makes Watergate seem like Jaywalking, and I don't think that's hyperbole.
0:06.5	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:09.2	I'm Ilya Maritz.
0:10.7	Right wing media are running with the story of the Twitter files and Hunter Biden's laptop,
0:15.5	but is there really any there there?
0:17.6	If you're looking for a really complicated thing to get into and you don't like novels,
0:21.1	like you could read this.
0:23.1	That could be fun.
0:25.2	The parking parks and the animation can be fun too, until they turn political, as the
0:29.8	leaders of Disney have learned.
0:31.7	He got whacked by the governor Forda who then spent months calling the company Woke Disney.
0:38.8	Plus the story behind the meteoric rise of the streaming giant HBO.
0:43.8	And cable edge was just explicitly code for, we need more brass.
0:49.1	And then they proudly advertised it that way.
0:52.2	That's all coming up after this.
1:00.1	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.3	Brooklads don't is out this week.
1:04.9	I'm Ilya Maritz, reporter covering democracy for ProPublica.
1:09.9	A week ago last Friday, late in the evening, journalist Matt Tebi dropped along and portentist
1:15.5	thread on Twitter that he titled The Twitter Files.
1:19.1	Saying that he was going to, in his words, reveal what really happened with the Hunter
1:22.8	Biden story suppression, adding again in his view, this is going to be awesome.
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