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Welcome The Weekly Standard and Washington Examiner Podcasts To Ricochet
We’re thrilled to announce that The Weekly Standard and The Washington Examiner podcasts will be joining the Ricochet Audio Network. The podcasts will also be available on our site and in the SuperFeed.
Here’s the press release:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD AND WASHINGTON EXAMINER JOIN FORCES WITH PODCAST INDUSTRY LEADER RICOCHET
MediaDC is excited to announce that we’re joining forces with Ricochet to bring the best conservative podcasts together on one platform. Conservative journalists and pundits like Steve Hayes, Byron York, Bill Kristol and Salena Zito will now be available on the same Ricochet platform as Peter Robinson, Rob Long, James Lileks, Mona Charen, Jonah Goldberg, Jay Nordlinger, John Podhoretz, and many more.
Beginning May 1st, The Weekly Standard’s The Daily Standard podcast and the Washington Examiner’s Examining Politics Daily will be available on the Ricochet Superfeed and on Ricochet.com, along with the popular pop-culture podcast, The Sub-Standard.
Ricochet co-founder Rob Long says “We’re excited to add to the outstanding team at Ricochet the fresh reporting and keen insights of MediaDC journalists like Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, Mike Warren, Byron York, and Salena Zito”. we couldn’t be more proud and honored to carry MediaDC’s shows. They’re doing some of the smartest, fast-moving, and entertaining audio-on-demand shows around. Ricochet co-founder Peter Robinson adds, “I share Rob Long’s enthusiasm for MediaDC and all its works–smart, fast-moving, and 
entertaining.
“My mission at MediaDC is to take the terrific content being generated by the Washington Examiner and the Weekly Standard and get it into as many easy-to-use formats as possible,” says Creative Director Michael Graham. “When you think about depth of talent at the Washington Examiner from Jamie McIntyre covering the Pentagon to Sarah Westwood at the White House to Phil Klein on healthcare and Tim Carney on politics—using the best of that talent every day to create the “Examining Politics Daily” makes for terrific content. At the same time, “The Daily Standard” delivers a unique analysis of the events shaping the news and the world today – with an all-star roster of the best conservative thinkers like Bill Kristol, Steve Hayes, Fred Barnes, and others.
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MediaDC is the publisher of The Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner, and Red Alert Politics. We’ve assembled teams of world-class journalists in the nation’s capital to inform and enlighten readers and the people who make policy and practice politics at the state and national levels.
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Here is Tom and Bob on their podcast, Contra Krugman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QpJqEtob_c
I’ve been critical of Ricochet’s podcast additions lately, but at least this appears to be somewhat balanced. More voices are always better than less as far as political discourse. Beside, as a very wise lady (@susanquinn) once said, if you don’t like them, don’t listen.
Ricochet monitors what’s listened to, what’s downloaded for later, and what’s ignored. And they make their business decisions accordingly.
Great news all around. Thank you for this update as well. I hope these types of updates will be regular features and will also inform when a podcast leaves the network. Really excited. I have been tempted by substandard a bunch of times now but I never pulled the trigger on it now that it is part of Ricochet I think I will have no more excuses.
This has been a major shortcoming. You never know whether to unsub and delete the podcast, or if they’re just on extended hiatus.
That reminds me, it’s been an awfully long time since @jameslileks has made a new episode of The Diner or The Ramble. I hope there will be more in the future.
On the Flagship he talks about doing another and I hope he will do another but if he is not going to do anymore it would be good to know that.
If nothing else, a memorial podcast that lays those series to rest.
A new Ramble should hit the network this week, with thoughts on an ugly city that’s trying to be smart.
Define “Neo-Cons.”
Seems it’s anyone on the right who disagrees with a libertarian on foreign policy.
Andrew Ferguson follow up to Crazy U
Specifically it is anyone that started their political life as a left of center individual and then came to conservatism. That includes a whole bunch of people. The most dominant theme ideologically is an interest in using America’s influence and not being isolationist. This is why they get the misplaced bad rap of being interventionist and “war monger”. It’s also a slur used by the left for anyone they don’t like.
Target! Cease fire.