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Dec 2, 2025 11 min

Episode 130: Competitive Paranoia

from Tales From the Beat Hosted by Ed Garsten

There’s of course, a lot of great journalism out there, butif you look at your newsfeed, there’s a lot of crap too. If you’re old enough,like I am, you remember when, instead of making stuff up, we simply, um,borrowed, from places like the New York Times and Washington Post. At leastthat’s what we did quite often at CNN back in the day. So in episode 130 ofTales From the Beat, I turn the wayback machine to 1986 when a NY Times storycaught the attention of a big boss at CNN, and I was ordered to match it andask a question that received an honest answer that I couldn’t include in mypiece. The ep includes that story, and a much younger host, Ed Garsten.

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