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Facebook ignites a moral panic in the media, Tucker Carlson prepares to air special on Jan. 6 as "false flag," and the NYT tells us how and why Gen Z is owning the millennials. Times 4:23 - Segment: Front Page 4:31 - Trailer for Tucker Carlson's Fox Nation special 10:44 - National Institute of Health funded gain-of-function research 13:31 - Wall Street Journal publishes Donald Trump letter 14:00 -...

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos half caves, but speaks to an important truth, Pete Buttigieg's paternity brouhaha, and David Corn vs. Joe Manchin Times 01:49 - Segment : Front Page 01:53 - Politico 's scoop on Pete Buttigieg's paternity leave 07:15 - Mother Jones 's "scoop on Joe Manchin leaving the Democratic Party 14:54 - Donald Trump's new social media platform 20:37 - Bari Weiss slams CNN's Brian Ste...

Gruesome Gruden coverage, Katie Couric takes a knee for RBG, and alternative media sources pick up the MSM slack on wokeism Times 03:26 - Segment: Front Page 03:35 - Jon Gruden's horrific emails 10:19 - Katie Couric's admits to editing an interview with the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg 14:40 - The New York Times ' critical race theory coverage 20:08 - Sanjay Gupta on why he likes to be famous...

Stirewalt sounds off on Jon Stewart’s new show, the problems with the media coverage of the Facebook whistleblower, and Katie Couric is eviscerated Times 2:35 - Segment : Front Page 2:50 - Ozy Media 7:50 - OANN cut funding deal with AT&T 14:00 - People paying for news 17:53 - AP fact checker 20:13 - Segment: Obsessions 20:19 - John Stewart: the problem 25:35 - Facebook whistleblower 34:00- Seg...

Mark Milley fails his book report, Ben Smith shreds the Theranos of media, and local news is sending out the alert on put gummies in your kids' Halloween candy Times 1:16 - Segment : Front Page 1:25 - Mark Milley's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing 8:30 - Spending Bill 10:55 - Chris Cuomo, like his older brother, faces allegations of sexual harassment 15:42 - Anonymously-sourced report on So...

The media gets the border-patrol story wrong and can't stop complaining that pretty young white women get too much coverage Times 2:50 - Segment : Front Page 3:06 - The fake news about border patrol whipping Haitians at the border 7:30 - Headlines headache: Business Insider and defaulting on debt 10:13 - CNN uses kids to cast blame on Tucker Carlson 14:17 - Trump sues niece over exposé 16:51 - Eli...

Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley becomes a hero for some, a villain for others Times 2:36 - Segment : Front Page 2:45 - Biden's hostage crisis in Afghanistan 5:43 - Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Fox News' reboot of Cops 8:11 - Fox and the Vax 11:02 - Max Boot hates the Founding Fathers 15:59 - Ellen Pao on Sexism in the Elizabeth Holmes trial 19:56 - AOC at the Met Gala 22:38 - Segment...

The MSM can't stop talking about the "horse drug," the WaPo hit piece on Stanley McChrystal, and Tomi Lahren puts us on alert for voter fraud in California Times 2:56 - Segment : Front Page 3:10 - Rolling Stone's fake story on ivermectin overdoses in Oklahoma 12:43 - NPR, Matt Taibbi, and the dangers of free speech 15:24 - Stephanie Grisham to release book 18:55 - Gavin Newsom, Tomi Lahren, and th...

Afghanistan coverage goes off the rails, CNN’s “standards,” and our beef with fact-checkers  Times 0:33 - Segment : Most Important Stories of the Week 0:44 - Afghanistan coverage 3:20 - Biden Transcript 11:25 - Axel Springer 15:05 - FED and Climate Change 17:20 - Vice News 20:47 - News Trust declines 25:19 - Jeffrey Toobin 28:48 - Segment : Obsessions of the Week 27:47 - Harpers 34:05 - Politfact...

German media giant acquires Politico, the blame game in Afghanistan, and DeSantis dukes it out with the Associated Press Times 0:35 - Segment : Front Page 1:08 - Media coverage on Afghanistan evolves 10:00 - Gallup poll on American's satisfaction with the United States 12:15 - Politico sells to Axel Springer for $1 billion 17:44 - ABC producer Michael Corn sued over sexual harassment allegations 2...

Joe Biden faces a media reckoning Times 0:34 - Segment : Front Page 0:50 - Biden's media honeymoon is over 13:16 - An update on The Brothers Cuomo (the least successful of Farrelly Brothers' movies) 14:58 - CNN's reminder that racism still exists, in the form of article on the Census results 18:35 - The New York Times piece on Titian 21:08 - Revisiting the Afghanistan crisis and Taliban's media ta...

Our friend Julie Mason steps in to discuss infighting at Fox, CNN gets a late-night lashing, a new look at the bird watcher of Central Park, and New York Times laments the ethnic food isle  Times 1:54 - Segment: Front Page 2:10 - Fox's Dan Bongino interviews Donald Trump 6:45 - Stephen Colbert slams Brian Stelter and CNN 10:20 - The media's fawning over Andrew Cuomo 12:15 - National outlets' bias...

The Cuomo brothers' brouhaha, Tucker Carlson interviews Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán, and NPR greenlights political protests on the part of its reporters so long as they're in favor of "the freedom and dignity of human beings." Times 0:34 - Segment: Front Page 0:47 - Cuomo, Cuomo, Cuomo (Eliana) 5:19 - Best BBQ of Big Sky and Memphis 8:10 - Donald Trump and Ralph Northam 14:00 - Tucker Carlson...

Simone Biles and safety culture come to the Olympics, news reporters take a stand on Jan. 6, and Felicia Sonmez sues her bosses Times 00:39 - Segment: Most Important Stories of the Week 00:45 - Simone Biles 08:50 - NYT JD Tweets  10:46 - Racial Disparities in COVID Learning 16:38 - Tucker NSA 18:47 - Segment: Obsessions of the Week 19:09 - Craiglist vs Local Papers 22:52 - Suit against Washington...

The Texas Democrats’ big adventure gets MSM treatment, Fox News goes pro-vax, and Michael Wolff drops a truth bomb on CNN’s Brian Stelter  Times 0:32 - Segment: Most Important Stories of the Week 0:35 - Texas Democrats Flee State to Protest Voting Restrictions, Turn DC Trip to Superspreader Event (Eliana) 8:50 - Fox Flips on Vaccines (Chris) 10:50 - Tucker Bucks Fox Flip on Vaccine Flip (Eliana) 1...

Find Chris on TikTok: chris.stirewalt  For information on the post-Journalism panel at AEI on July 28, go here. Times 0:51 - Segment: Most Important Stories of the Week 1:00 - Michael Wolf Book on Fox’s Arizona Call (Eliana) 5:27 - Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig Book on the Decline in the Trump Presidency (Chris) 12:16 - NBC News report on The Atlantic struggle for subscriptions (Eliana) 19:56 -...

Tucker vs. the NSA, Media covers the media’s Jan. 6 heroes, and CNN goes all-in on Critical Race Theory Times 0:53 - Segment: Most Important Stories of the Week 1:00 - Henry Suing Fox News, Tucker and the NSA (Eliana) 8:35 - NPR Not reading the declaration of independence this year (Eliana) 11:59 - Vice News Expose on reporters who “survived” the Capitol Riot (Eliana) 14:04 - Gallup poll of happin...

Eliana and Chris interview each other about how the heck they ended up sitting next to each other doing a podcast about the media. 

Eliana Johnson and Chris Stirewalt love the news business but they hate a lot of what’s happening to it these days. Using their decades of experience in print, digital and TV news they tell the story behind the stories, always on the lookout for bias, sloppy reporting and, well, just plain wretched journalism. Every week they help you to be a better, smarter news consumer.