125 w/ Ben Smith “The (Syrian) Withdrawal Method, Journalistic Imperatives”

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125 w/ Ben Smith “The (Syrian) Withdrawal Method, Journalistic Imperatives”

The Fifth Column

Dec 22, 2018

w/ Ben Smith (Editor in Chief @ BuzzFeed News)

- BuzzFeed's Day in Court

- About That Dossier

- Insider Political Journalism vs Crisis Political Journalism

- Sports Metaphors, Panglossian History

- Newsroom Diversity

- Indisputably Racist

ALSO:

- Syria, Afghanistan, and Impulse Control

- The Best Laid Plans

- Another Shutdown

- GoFundMe Governance

- Trust Issues

Recorded: PM 12/22/2018

Published: 12/23/2018

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The Fifth Column

Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.

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