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INDIGNITY MORNING PODCAST

TOM SCOCCA

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/2d. Total Eps: 550

Good morning! Indignity editor and longtime media critic Tom Scocca gets newsprint on his hands to give you a quick summary of the new day's current events, with commentary about how they're being covered.

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Episode 552: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 552: Watching the world burn.

Episode 552

Thursday, October 9, 2025 • Duration 16:29

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The final story above the fold has the headline “Far Outside the U.S., Kirk’s Memory Has Become a Political Tool / Public Tribute in Peru by a Mayor Seeking Trump’s Help.” The story pretty heavily contradicts the headline, in that it documents that in Lima there really isn't any such thing as the memory of Charlie Kirk. Even more so than in the United States, people have little to no idea of who the guy was, or why politicians would make a fuss over him. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 551: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 551: Widely criticized as flimsy.

Episode 551

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 • Duration 17:03

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: The Times’s designated campus scold Anemona Hartocollis has a new headline to scandalize the readers. “Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture. Harvard University is one of the most difficult schools to gain admission to” she writes, “with the school turning away some 97% of applicants every year. But, once they get in, many of its students skip class and fail to do the reading. According to the classroom social compact committee, a group of seven faculty members that produced a report on Harvard's classroom culture that has been fueling debate since it was released in January.” January. It was released in January. It is now October. Here are some stories that are not on page A1 today, while the Times was staking out A1 for news of a 10 month old report on campus culture at Harvard. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 550: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 550: Let's do the [CURSE WORD] news.

Episode 550

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 • Duration 12:55

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Weiss's probably underrated advantage, and the thing that really got her to where she is now, is that her callow reactionary prejudices and politics largely overlap with those of the people who really call the shots in the purportedly liberal news business, but those attitudinal advantages are offset by the fact that she also shares their weird insularity toward the world and the people who work for them, but without any meaningful professional or executive experience to offset it. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 549: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 549: The 21st paragraph.

Episode 549

Monday, October 6, 2025 • Duration 13:34

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: This just all seems like extremely strange framing for a CONGRESSIONAL MEMO in 2025. Are the House and Senate really blasé about the shutdown exactly or or have they just ceded all their power to a president who can't be made to care? There isn't really much point in working late into the night or even performing the role of working late into the night, when the only person who has any control over the process is sundowning. After the jump, which arrives accompanied by a sly little postage stamp photo of the Capitol dome with an out of focus, DON'T WALK sign in the foreground. The story delivers a revealingly garbled analogy. "Former representative Patrick McHenry, The Times writes, The North Carolina Republican who helped steer the house away from a shutdown in 2023 predicted that the gridlock would continue until lawmakers felt more consequences from their voters for doing nothing. He compared it to a professional wrestling match, where both sides need to force the opposition to submit. 'It's not goodwill that brings policymakers together,' Mr. McHenry said 'it's pain. There's no urgency until the political pain increases.'" Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 548: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 548: An Eisenhower sword.

Episode 548

Friday, October 3, 2025 • Duration 13:49

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: There is no job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. The numbers were reportedly compiled but are not being released, due to the government shutdown. Surely this is a neutral logistical decision on the bureau's part, and the numbers would stay in a file drawer even if they were positive for the Trump administration's economic performance, which most forecasters expected they would not be, or are not. Not sure what tense to use for data that exists but can't be seen. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 547: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 547: No matter what Congress says.

Episode 547

Thursday, October 2, 2025 • Duration 13:45

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: There we have one of the basic problems with writing about the Trump administration and what its officials said, in that pretty much every part of that paraphrase is false. The review was not in response to Donald Trump's executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. It was quite obviously in response to the government shutdown. Likewise, the specific transportation department rule that Duffy was citing was hastily issued to create a pretextual mechanism for taking away the funds. Duffy announced that the funding had been put under review, and that that review was unfortunately on hold because the lawyers who would do it were unavailable under the shutdown, in a single integrated action. The story also does not mention that the particular contracting requirements the Duffy claims may violate the rule that he just issued are congressionally mandated and longstanding contracting rules. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 546: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 546: Ahead of a midnight deadline.

Episode 546

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Duration 13:11

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Back on page one, at the top left of the page, the headline is, “Comey Is Stuck In Long Feud With President / A Bad Start Escalated Into an Indictment.” The bad start was James Comey as FBI director telling Donald Trump in their first meeting when Trump was president-elect that there were allegations circulating about Trump and Russia. And so after that meeting, the Times writes, “the two men would be set on a path of escalating conflict and mutual loathing that led last week to a prosecutor handpicked for the task by Mr. Trump, securing an indictment of Mr. Comey.” Sorry, but no, this ain't a feud. This is the president of the United States using all of his available powers and then some to persecute somebody. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 545: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 545: Fear of retribution.

Episode 545

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 • Duration 14:48

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: This is how Peter Baker decided to respond to the spectacle of the complete collapse of the rule of law, by somehow simultaneously assuming the posture of a kindergarten teacher and of a child sucking its thumb on a sleepy mat. Boy, those Republicans sure wouldn't like it if someone treated them the way that they're treating their opponents right now. Yeah, right. That's why they're trying to fix it so that political power never changes hands again. That's the heart of their entire approach. What even is the use of exploring the dumb hypothetical that the Democrats might prove equally lawless in the future? The real question that demands NEWS ANALYSIS right now is whether if the Democrats do manage to take power again, they will shed their own chronic inhibitions and ignore the hand-wringing of people like Baker, and take swift and decisive action not to emulate crimes of the Trump administration but to punish those crimes decisively, abandoning the presumption going all the way back to Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon, if not to the violent unwinding of Reconstruction after the Civil War, that the proper way to deal with lawlessness corruption and misrule is to grant the wrongdoers impunity so as not to stir up a fuss and provoke future bad behavior. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 544: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 544: Something of a joke.

Episode 544

Monday, September 29, 2025 • Duration 13:13

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Marjorie Taylor Green, whose entire politics is built around not being able to get along with people, is not getting along with people. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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Episode 543: Indignity Morning Podcast No. 543: Chikungunya.

Episode 543

Friday, September 26, 2025 • Duration 15:07

EASY LISTENING DEP’T.: Speaking of declining literacy, in the international news on page A6, there's the headline, “Some Poo-Poo an Italian City Tax Designed to Combat Dog Waste.” That's P-O-O hyphen P-O-O. Completely amateur attempted wordplay. The term “pooh-pooh” for disparaging something is spelled with H’s, so it's not a clever piece of wordplay. It's just the wrong-ass word. Real dogshit effort there. Please visit, read, and support INDIGNITY! https://www.indignity.net/

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