‘The Press Box’ —Stop The Presses! (Ep. 388)

The Press Box

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Sports

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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The Ringer's Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker break down the firings of Matt Lauer (03:00) and Garrison Keillor (11:15). Then they recognize the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week (19:00) before getting into the University of Tennessee's handling of the Greg Schiano situation (23:00), the ESPN layoffs (31:00), the failed attempt to bust The Washington Post by James O'Keefe and Project Veritas (38:00), and the purchase of Time Inc. by the Meredith Corporation (44:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In order to support our show, we'll need help from some great advertisers and in order
0:04.3	to find great advertisers, we'll need to learn a little bit more about you.
0:07.8	So please go to pod survey dot com slash press box and take a quick anonymous survey that
0:12.2	will help us get to know you a little better.
0:14.4	That way we can show advertisers just how great our listeners are.
0:16.7	Plus, once you've completed the survey, you can enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card
0:20.6	again.
0:21.6	survey dot com slash press box, P O D S U R V E Y dot com slash P R E S S V O X.
0:31.8	Thanks for your help.
0:37.0	David, normally on the press box, we talk about three subjects.
0:41.7	But this week there are about 9,000 gigantic media stories.
0:46.6	So can we just list the ones we don't have time to talk about today?
0:51.0	Yeah, shoot.
0:52.0	What are we not going to cover?
0:53.0	I'll go first.
0:54.0	How about the New York Times's soft focus Nazi profile?
0:56.9	Oh, man.
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:58.9	If only we hadn't taken last week off.
1:00.2	What do you have?
1:01.2	Well, I mean, local news, the mystery owners who have just fired seemingly most are all
1:06.2	the editorial staff of LA Weekly.
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