The Best of 2024

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are looking back on 2024 to see how we got here. We’re revisiting the rise of Trump 2.0, the decline of mainstream outlets like MSNBC, and the other biggest moments in American news media this year. Wretch on, and we’ll see you in the new year. Show Notes: The New York Times: 5 Takeaways From the Haley-DeSantis Debate and Trump’s Town Hall The New York Times: This Again? In Frozen Iowa, the Press Corps Ponders a Slog of a Campaign. The Atlantic: Why Attacks on Trump’s Mental Acuity Don’t Land CNN: NBC News journalists vexed by MSNBC’s move to hire White House press secretary Jen Psaki Semafor: NBC braces for the backlash to the backlash after hiring and firing top Republican The New York Times: Fast Food Forever: How McHaters Lost the Culture War The Washington Post: Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it The New York Times: Ibram X. Kendi Faces a Reckoning of His Own The Wall Street Journal: Biden’s Frailty Isn’t Breaking News The New York Post: Obama doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can beat Trump, which is why he hasn’t endorsed her: sources The New York Times: The Endless Downfall of a Crypto Power Couple

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0:00.0	Is there anything you would have done differently?
0:02.0	We've reported a true story.
0:04.0	Our colleague Brian Williams is back in Kuwait City tonight after a close call on the skies over Iraq.
0:10.0	Controversal Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and questions about Kavanaugh's drinking in the past.
0:16.0	Sean Hannity, come on up, Sean Hatton.
0:18.0	Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment.
0:22.6	Paul, whole, oh.
0:25.6	I am Chris Stairwalt, here alone, lonesome without Pelliana Johnson,
0:30.6	and welcome to Ink-Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong
0:33.6	and what's going right with the American news media. And we did it again, America.
0:39.2	We had a whole year. We even had an election. We did a bunch of stuff. We were very busy.
0:45.0	And America was getting on drugs, getting off drugs, was feeling vibes, was not feeling vibes.
0:52.9	It's been a lot and it's been a minute. But fortunately, we have
0:56.7	a delightful way for you to recap the year that was with a greatest hits of Inkstein Wretches,
1:03.5	put together by the intrepid Colin Chocola as we walk you back through the year that was
1:08.4	in some of our favorite funniest moments. And I guarantee you,
1:12.0	though I have not heard what Colin will select, that there will be lots of gross, weird food
1:18.5	content because I am obsessed.
1:26.0	Nikki Haley is the candidate of last resort.
1:29.7	Mickey Haley is for people who don't want Donald Trump to be the nominee.
1:34.7	And she, that comes with tradeoffs, right?
1:38.6	Because people aren't saying, I am so excited, or very few people are saying,
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