The Loss of Accountability of Local Governments

The media primary is underway as candidate profiles pop up everywhere, the NYT does a climate change doozy, and the wretches are flooded with Burger King mail. 

Time Stamps

• 00:25 - Introduction
• 02:29 - Front Page
• 34:02 - Obsessions
• 45:18 - Reader Mail
• 56:33 - Favorite Items of the Week

Show Notes:

• Limited Liability Podcast
• NYT: Infighting Overshadow's Big Plans at The Washington Post
• Politico: Fifty Years After Watergate, A Generation of Frightened Editors
• WaPo: Floridians Give Desantis Points For His Covid Stance. Will it Hold? 
• New Yorker: Can Ron DeSantis Displace Donald Trump as the G.O.P.’s Combatant-in-Chief?
• WaPo: USA Today Removes 23 Articles, Says Reporter Fabricated Sources
• Vice: White Nationalists Want to Reclaim Nature as a Safe Space for Racists
• NYT: Republicans Drive to Tilt Courts Against Climate Action Reaches a Crucial Moment
• Reason: Are a Majority of D.C. Circuit Judges Republican Appointees? NYT Thinks So
• The Hostile Media Phenomenon: Biased Perception and Perceptions of Media Bias in Coverage of the Beirut Massacre
• WSJ: One Grocer Wanted to Give Up Plastic. It Got Rotting Bananas Instead.
• Poynter: Pairing College Journalism Students With News Outlets May Be Key to Solving the Local News Crisis, Researchers Suspect