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Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

That is me, and in a minute we're going to talk to the Wall Street Journal's most excellent Jessica Tuncle so we can talk about a pretty grim media landscape

in general and as well as specific updates on Disney and Netflix and AMC. You're going to like it.

But first, a requester may be an opportunity. Would you like to ask me a question? I would love

to hear it because we want to

run a mailbag episode the next few weeks. So you can ask me whatever you're curious about

and I'll do my best to answer it and you understand what we're doing here because you've heard

a podcast before. You can ping me on Twitter or you can email me at peter at re-code.net.

And do let me know if you want me to use your name when I answer your question.

We will take it from there. Thanks. And now here's me and Jessica Tuncle. I'm here with Jessica

Tuncle, excellent media reporter. We talked to her last time maybe a year ago, a year and a half

ago when she was at the information producing scoop after scoop about the media business. Now she's the Wall Street Journal. She's doing the same thing and also editing. Welcome back, Jessica. Thanks so much, Peter, for having me. Says your deputy media editor, are you, you're a player coach now? Player coach is exactly how I describe it, yeah. So I'm getting to work. We have a great team, so I get to work with everyone. And I get to work with the folks in San Francisco and bring the whole tech entertainment media space together here. Well, you've been cranking out the stories, even though you're still coaching or you're also coaching. So that is pretty impressive. I want to talk to you about some of the stories you've written, but also just sort of a big picture of what is going on in the media business right now.

And let's start there because it seems surprisingly gloomy.

Pretty dire.

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