What Should The New York Times Do With The Athletic? Plus: No More Hollywood Profiles.

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Bryan and David brainstorm how The New York Times and The Athletic could restructure heading into the new phase of coverage (3:40). Then, amid the ongoing strikes in Hollywood, they discuss a few more media side effects, including the loss of the celebrity profile, actor promos, and more (34:10). 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	I'm Derek Thompson, the host of the podcast, Plain English.
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0:17.9	your podcasts.
0:19.9	David?
0:20.9	Yes.
0:21.9	I'm here on the East Coast.
0:29.9	I'm here on the East Coast for three weeks and that has given me the opportunity to catch
0:33.8	up with an old friend.
0:35.6	Who's that?
0:36.6	Well, not you.
0:37.6	You and I are also going to catch up.
0:39.4	Yeah, tell me about this.
0:41.0	But I'm referring to the New York Post, the tabloid newspaper, one of two tabloid
0:47.2	newspapers, but they cut at the tabloid newspaper of New York City.
0:51.9	And let me tell you something.
0:53.4	The post is just as I left it or we left it.
0:57.7	For instance, I don't think you're going to be surprised that the post was very, very
1:01.2	interested in Sunday on this long Island murder story.
1:06.0	Here's a headline, Slay Psycho.
1:09.4	Remember murder in New York Post, Jesus, Slay.
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