'Watchdog' of the government or 'lapdog' of the president?

What is happening to the Fourth Estate? In this first of two parts on the news media, Laurie and Brad discuss how journalism is winning and losing against Trump.

Some great articles to read as well:

The Making of the Fox News' White House - The New Yorker

Pandemic in the right-wing mediasphere - Columbia Journalism Review

Trump wishes Ghislaine Maxwell well, and the media barely reacts - Washington Post

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Estate Sale: the selling out of American democracy

American institutions are under attack...and that means our democracy is at stake.

Democracy depends on a free press, a government for the people, a just legal system and separate-but-free church.

Yet, we have a corrupt U.S. president, a partisan Supreme Court, a power-hungry white evangelical bloc and a lazy press - which is revealing just how much our American values are being sold out.

With a lot of informative guests and a few F-bombs, co-hosts Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann and Brad Raley are going to change that.