War Brings Clarity (Mostly)
Ink Stained Wretches
Nebulous Media
4.7 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode will focus on the excellent reporting on Hamas’ attack on Israel as well as subpar coverage. We’re also talking buyouts at the Washington Post, the next Speaker of the House and College in the United States.
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1:57 Front Page
51:58 Reader Mail
54:57 Obsessions
1:01:13 Favorite Items
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Show Notes:
Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Music Festival Massacre - Tablet Magazine
How Hamas duped Israel as it planned devastating attack | Reuters
Israel Was Prepared for a Different War - WSJ
Israel’s Intelligence Failure - Tablet Magazine
Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks - WSJ
Early Intelligence Shows Hamas Attack Surprised Iranian Leaders, U.S. Says - The New York Times
How the American Left Sees the War in Israel - POLITICO
Tim Scott, please drop out, urge others to follow and unite behind Haley - The Washington Post
Best Foodie Cities in America (2023)
Nothing Defines America’s Social Divide Like a College Education - The Atlantic
Opinion | Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter - The New York Times
Slow Boring on Substack: The "Deaths of Despair" narrative is wrong
What You Get Out of College Is Who You Put Into It - Chris Stirewalt - The Dispatch
Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department. - The New York Times
Yuki Tsunoda: The Potty-Mouthed Japanese F1 Racer Who Became a Cult Star - The New York Times
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 Hannity. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. |
| 0:24.6 | Hi, I'm Chris Steyerwalt. |
| 0:26.6 | And I'm Eliana Johnson. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome to Inkstein Wretches, where we break down what's going wrong and what's going right with the American News Media. |
| 0:34.6 | And Eliana Johnson, there's no easy way to go about it this has been a when the news is big |
| 0:43.9 | and the news is emotionally charged as it has been with the terrorist attack against Israel it |
| 0:52.3 | in the news business it produces some special challenges. And my thoughts have been |
| 0:58.6 | very much with you, because I know that these are things that are important to you, as they |
| 1:03.4 | should be to every American, but particularly for Jewish Americans, particularly for people |
| 1:07.9 | who have been to Israel, for particularly people who have friends there. |
| 1:12.1 | And so my thoughts and prayers have been very much with you this week, |
| 1:15.4 | and I'm very happy to be with you. |
| 1:17.9 | Well, thank you, Chris. |
| 1:19.9 | And I thought we would do things a little differently this week |
| 1:24.1 | in that the outbreak of this war on Saturday morning, I just felt, and I have been |
| 1:30.2 | feeling since then, I found myself just turning to the news constantly. And there's been so much |
| 1:36.5 | good reporting that it's been fun to be in the news media and use the news media in this way. |
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