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Hi, I'm Chris Tyrellwold. And I'm Aliana Johnson.

Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and, yes, what is going right with the American news media.

In every episode, we're going to tell you what's on our front page, a quick recap of these

stories that caught our attention this week.

Then, we're going to take a deep dive into our obsessions, the things we couldn't stop

thinking about.

Finally, Chris is going to twist my arm and make me say something nice before we sign off.

Up first, on the front page. These are the stories that caught

our attention this week. Chris, we've gotten saturation media coverage of the Texas Democrats who

fled the state to protest the passage of new voting restrictions down in Texas, and they turned their

trip to D.C. into a COVID super spreader event. Your bounce on the media coverage.

Well, it's been pretty impressively stupid even for what is typically stupid political coverage. It is the press's

fault to a certain degree, but it does, in fact, start with politicians lying about what they're

doing. So let's just cut to the press part. Well, no, no, no, no. So the, and separating the

right-wing press from the Republican Party and the mainstream or left left wing press from the Democratic Party is an exercise in futility.

So you kind of got to do them both at the same time.

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