Reading archive 2020-11-19

DK METCALF IS CHASING GLORY: A journey that began with a broken neck and draft-day snub might end with the next all-time great quarterback-receiver pairing.

Trump's election power play: Persuade Republican legislators to do what U.S. voters did not

Trump invites Michigan Republican leaders to meet him at White House as he escalates attempts to overturn election results

Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19

I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria: Old white people are drowning in despair and rage. Here's how my father lost his mind -- thanks to his cable diet

The Brainwashing of My Dad - "As Jen Senko tries to understand the transformation of her father from a nonpolitical Democrat to an angry Republican fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under President Richard Nixon for a media takeover by the Republicans, the 1971 Powell Memo urging business leaders to influence institutions of public opinion (especially the media, universities, and courts), the 1987 dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine under President Ronald Reagan, and the signing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act under President Bill Clinton. The documentary aims to show how the media and the nation changed, which leads to questions about who owns the airwaves, what rights listeners and watchers have, and what responsibility the government has to keep the airwaves fair, accurate, and accountable." [ed. note: a film, as yet unwatched]

In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, White House press pool reports are getting snarkier

Kenosha: How two men’s paths crossed in an encounter that has divided the nation: Kyle Rittenhouse, in a jailhouse interview, said he used stimulus money to get a gun. The first man he shot had just left a psychiatric hospital.