The Honeymoon is Over
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Joe Biden faces a media reckoning
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- 0:34 - Segment: Front Page
- 0:50 - Biden's media honeymoon is over
- 13:16 - An update on The Brothers Cuomo (the least successful of Farrelly Brothers' movies)
- 14:58 - CNN's reminder that racism still exists, in the form of article on the Census results
- 18:35 - The New York Times piece on Titian
- 21:08 - Revisiting the Afghanistan crisis and Taliban's media tactics
- 23:57 - Segment: Obsessions of the Week
- 24:05 - The New York Times coverage of Greg Abbott (Chris)
- 28:02 - The Current Affairs' Twitter meltdown (Eliana)
- 31:06 - Segment: Favorite Item of the Week
- 31:15 - Beth Macy's book, Dopesick, set to become a movie (Chris)
- 32:24 - The New York Post's coverage of MAXIM and Playboy's pay-to-play scandal (Eliana)
Links
CNN's article reminding us that racism still exists
New York Times article taking issue with Titian's paintings
Twitter thread on socialist leadership and unionizing at Current Affairs
New York Post article on Playboy pay-to-play
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 Hatton. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:23.4 | Hi, I'm Chris Starwalt. And I'm Aliana Johnson. Welcome to Ink-Stained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media. |
| 0:32.6 | Up first on our front page. |
| 0:42.7 | These are the stories that we thought were most important this week. |
| 0:45.0 | Chris, obvious first item. |
| 0:49.6 | The media Biden honeymoon is over. |
| 0:51.0 | I say play the sound. |
| 0:52.4 | Play the sound. |
| 0:59.1 | You told me a few months ago that you thought it was entirely likely that the Taliban would be taking over the country. |
| 1:06.5 | But President Biden, quote, the likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. |
| 1:07.4 | He was wrong. |
| 1:11.6 | The president has spoken to this issue a number of times in recent weeks. He has not looked, John, totally different story than a few weeks ago, right? |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, why isn't he out there now? |
| 1:18.6 | Kabul fell yesterday. |
| 1:20.6 | Where is the president? |
| 1:21.6 | I'm curious to hear your reaction of this consequential speech by the American president. |
| 1:28.6 | Didn't run from it. |
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