The Stormy Daniels Affair, "Unplugging" From Twitter, and ESPN's Nostalgia Problem | The Press Box (Ep. 440)

The Press Box

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4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Ringer's Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker discuss the media spectacle surrounding Donald Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels (03:00), the controversy following New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo's social media experiment (22:00), and how Michael Smith's departure from 'SportsCenter' reflects ESPN's programming problem (34:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:39.1	David Axios' Jim Van De Haai thinks people hate the media because cable news won't stop
0:45.2	covering former Trump aid Sam Nunberg.
0:48.7	But former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien thinks America hates the media because Chris
0:53.4	Salizza wrote some column on CNN.
0:56.7	Is this why America hates the media?
0:59.5	No, I think at the moment America probably hates the media because the media keeps talking
1:04.0	about how America hates them so much, right?
1:06.0	It's like a bad, it's like bad, bush belt comedy or something.
1:09.0	It's just like, whoa is me, okay?
1:10.6	Take my media, please.
1:12.0	No, that's totally true.
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