The Media’s Musky Odor
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Filling in for Eliana this week is Christine Rosen, Chris’s colleague from AEI. We have lots to catch up on this week from Kanye West’s Mar-a-Lago dinner to the media’s treatment of SBF.
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03:19 Front Page
1:02:00 Obsessions
1:05:36 Reader Mail
1:11:18 Favorite Item of the Week
Show Notes:
Fox News: Rep. Boebert’s apparent midterm victory makes liberal pundits eat their words
The Atlantic: Just Wait Until You Get to Know Ron DeSantis
Reuters: Trump ally Devin Nunes can sue NBCUniversal for defamation - judge
WaPo: Elon Musk and the hardcore cult of Diet Coke
WaPo: Musk's Twitter no longer bans covid misinformation
Fox News: Taylor Lorenz rips Elon Musk on BBC: He has made Twitter a 'disaster'
Good Morning America: George Stephanopoulos sits down with FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
NYT: Sam Bankman-Fried Blames ‘Huge Management Failures’ for FTX Collapse
Axios: Sam Bankman-Fried's "underdressed genius” look
The Atlantic: The Black Investors Who Were Burned by Bitcoin
Bloomberg: NPR Hiring Freeze, CNN Cuts Are Latest Signs of Media Crunch
Axios: CNN Layoffs Begin
The Daily Beast: AP Fires Reporter Behind Retracted ‘Russian Missiles’ Story
NYT: President Biden Is Turning 80. Experts Say Age Is More Than a Number.
WaPo: Rise in Iranian assassination, kidnapping plots alarms Western officials
The Guardian: Delaware man sentenced for joining US Capitol riots while on Tinder date
WaPo: She has 13 cats in a two-bedroom condo. Here's her litter-box advice.
Quartz: Apple hobbled a crucial tool of dissent in China weeks before widespread protests broke out
Politico:‘No path’ forward: Biden calls on Congress to avert rail strike
WaPo: Union Station has fallen on hard times. Can it be saved?
NYT: San Francisco Considers Allowing Use of Deadly Robots by Police
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 Pomo is having a moment. |
| 0:22.4 | Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt. |
| 0:26.5 | And I'm not Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to Inkstained Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American news media and the person who is not Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:40.5 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.5 | I'm Christine Rosen. |
| 0:43.2 | So, uh, colleague. |
| 0:44.7 | Well, you are my colleague. |
| 0:46.5 | You are my friend. |
| 0:47.3 | And I am a great admirer of yours. |
| 0:49.2 | You are my, a newish colleague here at the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:52.2 | But for the purposes of our listeners who |
| 0:54.2 | are unfortunate enough not to be familiar with you, give us a 30-second, the story of you. |
| 1:02.2 | I usually have a song that I put this to, but I'll spare them that. No, I'm a fellow here at |
| 1:07.4 | AEI, as you said, in the social, cultural, constitutional studies program. |
| 1:11.4 | You've all of then, peace be upon him. |
| 1:13.0 | Exactly. |
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