Twitter Took Your Headlines, CNN’s War Coverage, and Audio of a Miami Meltdown

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and David touch on Twitter’s approach to excluding news headlines on the platform and debate whether this will contribute to the rise of big art (0:31). Then, they discuss CNN’s ongoing coverage of the war in the Middle East and touch on reporters and correspondents on the ground (11:05). Then, they switch gears and review more Weekend Audio, from Georgia Tech's win over Miami to Kirby Smart's insistence that he doesn’t know who Miley Cyrus is (22:51). Lastly, they highlight the L.A. Clippers' new hire, recent grad Carlo Jiménez, who will take on the role of radio play-by-play announcer. Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained-Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here we go, this is Jason Golf from the full-go podcast.
0:03.3	Me and the crew, we like to entertain you, and we're going to do more of that this football
0:07.4	season because the bears should be more intriguing, this should be more fascination,
0:11.1	Justin Fields, this is the maker break year, this DJ more of the piece that's going to put
0:15.3	them over the top.
0:16.3	You can catch us on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, or when we have an emergency podcast
0:21.2	when we have breaking news.
0:22.7	Make sure you follow the full-go on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.0	David?
0:32.0	Yes.
0:33.0	As you scroll through Twitter, or X, the last few days, you may have noticed something
0:43.2	missing.
0:44.2	It was the headlines.
0:49.5	So now when you see tweeted articles, you only see a picture with the domain name of the
0:57.6	site superimposed on top of the picture.
1:01.9	As Ringer Art Director, what do you make of no headline Twitter?
1:10.6	It's a terrible, terrible place.
1:13.8	We tried to, without going into too much detail, I tried some other alternatives today, some
1:19.2	work arounds and whatnot, and I think I broke Twitter in one of the tweets, I don't
1:26.8	know.
1:27.8	It's a mess, man, it's a real mess.
1:33.0	It's just so obviously a mess.
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