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Jon Caramanica is insufferable. Please no more Jon Caramanica. I just cannot continue to listen to pop culture pieces when he will be featured.
This episode was a real eye-opener. Turns out several of the cultural writers at the Times are MAGA enthusiasts. Either that or this was some editor’s cynical instruction to further Foxify the podcast. What a disappointment.
Great show. Particularly liked Randy Newman’s song highlighting America’s adolescent and pissy attitude towards their great resources and opportunities. Just so human to “blow it all up.”
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It’s hard to believe that anyone finds the NYT reporters to be among the best in the world when you listen to The Daily. Listen to a report about higher education, and it’s entirely informed by the notion of “return on investment” without any apparent concern for what a university might be, or why it is under attack by the Trump administration. Listen to a report on Trump’s noxious political diatribe on the country’s 250th birthday, and the reporter says the left has conceded the founding and is... more
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