Why Now With the Weinstein Stories?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Why did it take years of reporting before any news organizations could nail down the Harvey Weinstein story? NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik says previously, the allegations received only "twilight" coverage. He considers why NBC might have whiffed on the Weinstein story, and how the network's hard pass is being recast in conservative circles. Folkenflik is the author of Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires. In the Spiel, who was the star of the New York City mayoral debate? It wasn't Oxford-style discourse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:07.4	It's Friday, October 13th, 2017 from Slate.
0:10.8	It's the GIST on Mike Pasca.
0:12.8	Oh my god, Friday the 13th, what are the odds?
0:14.6	It's one at seven.
0:15.4	Exactly one at seven.
0:16.6	It occurs every month.
0:17.7	That said, President Trump today,
0:19.9	announced he was quite upset with Iran,
0:22.0	and as guardian of our great nation,
0:24.5	he did what any man of action must do.
0:27.3	Kicked it all to Congress.
0:28.8	Sort of like how he punted on the ACA,
0:30.7	told Congress, do something about it, or DACA.
0:32.9	He was like, Congress, you guys do sound about it,
0:34.6	or the wall, or we'll get infrastructure done.
0:37.0	Once Congress does something about it, attacks us.
0:38.9	Oh yeah, we're just waiting for Congress
0:40.6	to do something about it.
0:41.4	It was like that famous line in his convention speech.
0:44.4	You know the one where he listed all the problems,
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