The High Price of Low Standards
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
We have a big episode this week, folks. Starting off with the Fox News and Dominion settlement, jumping over to 2024 coverage and taking a moment to examine the future of humankind. Tune in!
Time Stamps:
3:00 Front Page
47:56 Obsessions
54:30 Reader Mail
57:36 Favorite Item of the Week
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Show Notes:
Fox News: FOX News Media, Dominion Voting Systems reach agreement over defamation lawsuit
Reuters: Exclusive: Fox investors seek records in possible step toward suing directors
NYT: Opinion | What Protects Fox News In the Dominion Trial Also Protects Our Democracy
WaPo: After high-flying start, DeSantis hits stumbling blocks on road to 2024
The American Conservative: Learning From Vlad the Impaler
News Nation: Musk, media reach boiling point over Twitter changes
WSJ: Harlan Crow Is ‘Collateral Damage’ of a Smear Campaign Against Clarence Thomas
Politico: Playbook: No GOP favors for Feinstein
Yahoo News: Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind
WaPo: Choosing not to have a kid out of climate fears? You're not alone. - The Washington Post
WaPo: Tax season is getting longer. Blame climate change.
MarketWatch: Oklahoma sheriff’s office says recording by McCurtain Gazette-News of talk about killing journalists was illegal
WSJ: Prayers, a Glitchy App and a Five-Minute Race for Migrants at Border to Win Entry to U.S.
NYTimes:As Migrant Children Were Put to Work, U.S. Ignored Warnings
Obsessions:
NYT: How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives
WaPo: Boston is a bucket-list marathon. Now nonbinary runners can compete, too.
WSJ: A Tense Wait for an Imprisoned Son
WSJ: Evan Gershkovich Is Not a Spy
Favorite Items:
WaPo: Teachers nationwide are flummoxed by students' new chess obsession
104.5 WOKV: Mets broadcasters hilariously explain possum still at large in Athletics' television booth
Transcript
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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 Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt. |
| 0:27.7 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. That's dang tootin. Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what is going right with the American news media. |
| 0:38.5 | Eliana Johnson, I brought you something. |
| 0:41.1 | What did you bring from Germany? |
| 0:43.4 | From Germany, I have brought you the keychain. |
| 0:46.8 | Oh, I like it. |
| 0:47.9 | It's the TV Tower. |
| 0:49.4 | Here you go. |
| 0:50.6 | That's great. |
| 0:52.0 | TV Tower. |
| 0:53.0 | Everybody gets one for Nate and his haircut. |
| 0:56.0 | One for a bare-armed sweaterless Colin Chacola. |
| 1:00.9 | But this is the TV tower in Berlin, which the East Germans built to broadcast their |
| 1:09.2 | propaganda into the West and into the world. |
| 1:12.3 | It's very tall and you can go up in it. |
| 1:14.2 | And I did. |
| 1:15.5 | And it's true. |
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