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Ink Stained WretchesJul 19, 2024
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If you're assuming we will be covering the media's response to the attempted assassination, Biden's re-election bid, and the RNC, you'd be correct. However, if you're considering plastic surgery or $1000 sneakers, we have you completely covered this week. We have much to catch up on, wretches. Join us.


Time Stamps:

3:15 Front Page

57:01 Style Section

1:04:33 Obsessions

1:11:24 Reader Mail

1:12:46 Favorite Items


The Atlantic: Evan Vucci's Trump Image Is a Legendary American Photograph  

WaPo: Trump allies immediately blame Biden, Democrats for spurring rally shooting

Real Clear Markets: Is It Beyond the Pale To Ask If the Trump Shooter Was Simply Crazy?

Semafor: Top Democratic strategist pushed reporters to consider 'staged' shooting 

Mediaite: Joe Scarborough Addresses Morning Joe Getting Pulled Off MSNBC: 'We Were Very Surprised. We Were Very Disappointed' 

Mediaite: Joe Scarborough Goes OFF on NBC Colleague Lester Holt's Biden Interview: 'Talk About Phony Moral Relativism!' 

Mediaite: Oliver Darcy Calls Out CNN For Airing 'Lie-Filled' RNC Speeches With 'Little-To-No' Push Back 

The Atlantic: Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win  

NYT: Usha Vance and the Iconography of the Trump Women

Puck News: Biden’s Saturday Zoom Call With House Dems Goes Off the Rails 

Semafor: Donors’ cash is drying up, Jeffrey Katzenberg warns Biden in private meeting

NYT: Biden Called ‘More Receptive’ to Hearing Pleas to Step Aside

NYT: How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza: Tunnels, Traps and Ambushes

NYT: Rescued Hostage Describes Months of Uncertainty and Terror in Gaza 

Wall Street: Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong reporter who headed embattled press club 

WSJ: Is This $1,100 Shoe the Next Men’s Status Sneaker?


Obsessions: 

NYT: How Yale Propelled J.D. Vance’s Career

The Dispatch: ‘Ordinary Americans’ Can Be Wrong, Too


Reader Mail: 

WaPo: The short answer on office shorts: No


Favorite Items: 

Poynter: Technology has fundamentally changed how reporters cover political conventions — for the better

The Daily Beast: Ex-CIA Analyst Worked for South Korea in Exchange for Louis Vuitton Handbag: Prosecutors