{"podcast":{"title":"Cannonball with Wesley Morris","slug":"cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","podcast_index_feed_id":800699,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/JJrAJ_VY","website_url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/4105a47a-42e5-4ccc-887a-832af7989986/f744f7d3-52bd-4733-ae4a-818042909996/3000x3000/cannonball-album-20art-3000px-0605.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"The New York Times","episode_count":46,"summary":"Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699"},"episode":{"title":"In Defense of the NYT's 'Greatest Songwriters' List","slug":"in-defense-of-the-nyt-s-greatest-songwriters-list","published_at":"2026-05-07T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/in-defense-of-the-nyt-s-greatest-songwriters-list","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/podcasts/still-processing","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pfx.vpixl.com/6qj4J/nyt.simplecastaudio.com/2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b/episodes/fc19ce96-88ec-4c6e-9aa5-a361c90bc541/audio/128/default.mp3?aid=rss_feed&awCollectionId=2893446d-8730-4532-8321-b81d2bb2b03b&awEpisodeId=fc19ce96-88ec-4c6e-9aa5-a361c90bc541&feed=JJrAJ_VY","summary":"The public outrage was inevitable. The New York Times Magazine published a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Two hundred and fifty music insiders submitted ballots. Six Times music critics and writers sorted through it all to get to 30. For Wesley Morris, it was both daunting and thrilling. Luminaries like Bonnie Raitt, George Clinton, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mariah Carey submitted ballots. How to honor those submissions while narrowing down and exercising a critic’s judgment? Nearly 6,000 comments later, one thing is clear: Everybody’s a critic. Many are asking the nagging question, “How can you leave out so-and-so?!” Our critics included! So, Wesley invites a few of the project’s participants, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, the hosts of “Popcast,” and Sasha Weiss, a deputy editor of The Times Magazine, to rehash it all out.","meta_description":"The public outrage was inevitable. The New York Times Magazine published a list of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Two hundred and fifty musi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3698,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/episodes/in-defense-of-the-nyt-s-greatest-songwriters-list/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cannonball-with-wesley-morris-800699/in-defense-of-the-nyt-s-greatest-songwriters-list.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}