'BradCast' 10/8/2021 (Guest: Media analyst Eric Boehler on media downplaying Trump GOP's danger to democracy)

Published: Oct. 9, 2021, 1:49 a.m.

On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 President Biden has reversed Donald Trump's unprecedented rollback of federal protections for three important public lands, restoring the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine Monument off the coast of New England. New documents released by the House Committee on Oversight reveal that Trump's company lost millions on his D.C. hotel while in office, despite receiving millions in revenue from governments, lobbyists and businesses (in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution), and received 'undisclosed preferential treatment' from Deutsche Bank. But the corporate media is still failing to report accurately and fully on Trump's numerous blatant attempts to steal the 2020 election, including his push for supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Longtime media analyst ERIC BOEHLERT argues the mainstream corporate media appear to have learned nothing from Trump's disastrous reign, and are 'purposely' ignoring what he describes as 'the clarion calls of democratic doom.' He explains how - - and equally important, why - - the mainstream press is still failing to raise the alarm despite clear signs that American democracy is facing an unprecedented internal threat from the rise of rightwing authoritarianism. How can they -- and we -- do a better job of adequately sounding the 'fire alarm'?\xa0 Also today: the Biden White House moved to officially commemorate Indigenous Peoples' Day on what is still officially known as Columbus Day...