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The Press Box

Trump and Fox News, Plus: New York Times Critic Dwight Garner

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker attempt to break down the dynamic between Fox News and Donald Trump (3:30), before answering, Listener Mail, where they guess “Who will be Time’s person of the year?” (31:40) Then New York Times critic Dwight Garner stops by to discuss his new book and his career as a critic (53:40). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

David Fox News' Laura Ingram had an alleged informant on her show this week who was

0:09.0

presented in shadow with a distorted voice.

0:12.8

What I want to know is what are your favorite things about this time-honored TV news practice

0:17.6

that you might not have seen since your local TV station did a sting on an insurance

0:21.8

company?

0:22.8

This is seriously, it became more of a gag of this going awry, right?

0:26.7

Now there's like the insurance commercials where the voice or the person in this situation

0:32.4

gets exposed.

0:33.4

I'm just like a naked gun moment about it.

0:35.8

I'm just excited.

0:37.0

I'm glad that you went to local news because my mind immediately went to Magic's biggest

0:42.5

secrets finally revealed.

0:46.3

There's got to be some point where even if this is a real person who's willing to come

0:49.9

on, which I'm skeptical of, you have to look at this as a producer or whoever and say,

0:56.2

it's going to seem, it's going to look fake.

0:59.4

Do we really want to have this person on and make everybody think that we put fake things

1:02.9

on our show?

1:04.0

I salute any real anonymous source underlying real anonymous source that comes forward

1:09.5

with some news.

1:11.3

It is hard for me to put myself in the brain of the anonymous source that says, I am

1:15.5

willing to sit in front of a TV camera with the trust that you are going to obscure my

1:21.2

face and voice to such a degree that nobody will recognize me.

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