The Coronavirus Corporate Hall of Shame. Plus: Should COVID-19 News Be Free? | The Press Box
The Press Box
The Ringer
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. |
| 0:04.4 | We hope the Ringer can provide you entertainment and companionship during this time, so as |
| 0:08.3 | always feel free to check out theringer.com where we're still covering the latest in sports, |
| 0:13.0 | pop culture, tech and media, and the Ringer's YouTube channel can provide endless amounts |
| 0:17.2 | of entertainment. |
| 0:18.2 | You can find that at youtube.com slash theringer. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello media consumers, Brian Curtis and David Schumaker of the Ringer here. |
| 0:39.3 | We got lots and lots of great stuff to get to today. |
| 0:42.1 | David and I will debate should newspapers make all their stories about coronavirus free. |
| 0:49.0 | We got listener mail from the band The Rim Brants. |
| 0:52.0 | You heard that right. |
| 0:53.0 | The Rim Brants. |
| 0:54.0 | Plus the overworked Twitter joke of the week. |
| 0:57.3 | But David, let's start the show today with some good old fashioned shaming because two |
| 1:03.2 | weeks into coronavirus lockdown, we've seen layoffs, we've seen furloughs, we've seen |
| 1:10.3 | salary cuts and other forms of miserable behavior by corporations and other well-moneyed entities. |
| 1:17.8 | So please join me in introducing the coronavirus corporate hall of shame. |
| 1:28.1 | nominee number one, David, the Michael Bloomberg for president campaign. |
| 1:34.5 | Remember that brief moment when the businessman, democratic nominee almost seemed like a good |
| 1:39.8 | idea? |
| 1:40.8 | Well, Bloomberg got into the campaign late and part of the way he was able to staff up |
| 1:46.5 | so quickly was to offer what seemed like a great deal. |
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