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Ink Stained Wretches

The Interview: Shawn McCreesh

Ink Stained Wretches

Nebulous Media

News, News Commentary

4.8695 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by New York Magazine’s Shawn McCreesh. We talk to Shawn about the art of a good profile, his days at New York Times, and his connection to previous ISW interviewees.  If you have a story you want us to talk about, e-mail us at [email protected]. Sign up to our newsletter to receive show notes directly in your inbox Show Notes New York Magazine: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner’s Politico Ambitions  New York Magazine: How SBF Sweet-Talked the Media  NYTimes: Opinion | In My Hometown, Opioids Are Still Stealing Lives  New York Magazine: Get Me Risa Heller!  Mediate: ‘I Was So F*cking Freaked Out’: Ex-NYT Staffer Describes ‘Crying’ and ‘Bloodthirsty’ Colleagues Seeking Vengeance for Cotton Op-Ed  Guest Recommendations:  New York Magazine: Pete Hamill on the Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class  NY Times: Jamie Tarses' Fall, as Scheduled GQ: Ted Kennedy on the Rocks | GQ  The New Yorker: Ted Turner, the Lost Tycoon  Vanity Fair: OVITZ AGONISTES  NY Times: Woman of Mass Destruction  New York Magazine: The Death of (the Idea of) the Upper East Side

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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.

0:22.6

Hi, I'm Chris Stierwald.

0:24.8

And I'm Eliana Johnson.

0:26.2

And this is Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and, in fact, what's going right with the American news media.

0:32.9

Eliana Johnson, it's an interviews episode.

0:35.8

And it's not just an interviews episode. It's a great one because you have brought us a wonderful guest. Tell us a little about our guest.

0:45.3

We are so happy to have with us this week, New York Magazine. Are you writer? What is your title there, Sean McRish? Yeah, Features Writer is my title. We are so happy to have with us Features Writer at New York Magazine, Sean McRish, who, and we are going to get into this,

1:02.0

just disclosed to me that he's also like our previous guest, Alex Thompson, a former

1:07.0

Maureen Dowd research assistant.

1:10.0

So we have a pattern here of guests who I like bringing on the show.

1:14.2

But Sean, thank you so much for joining us. Chris and I are both longtime fans of your wonderful profiles.

1:20.0

Thank you so much for having me.

1:22.5

Sean, tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from and how did you come into the journalism world?

1:32.2

Sure. I grew up in a town right outside Philly called Hatboro, a lower middle class kind of working class town, actually right near where Jill Biden grew up.

1:44.0

And always wanted to live in New York.

1:45.9

Basically, everybody in my family works with their hands and I am not a blue collar person.

1:51.6

I can't even screw in a light bulb. So I kind of knew that I had to go to college. It was like

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