'BradCast' 8/19/2022 (Guest: Media critic Dan Froomkin of Press Watch on corporate media failures)
b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0\\xa0 The U.S. corporate media is still cowed by the radical Right, and still failing in their constitutional mandate to inform and educate the electorate. As we've long argued, it's a mistake to buy into the political punditry of Conventional Wisdom that assumes Democrats will lose big in midterm elections in November. While it's still an uphill climb, new polling data suggests that these are decidedly UN-conventional times, when even a die-hard Republican like Maryland's Gov. Larry Hogan dismisses the Trump-endorsed GOP gubernatorial nominee, Dan Cox, as 'not mentally stable.'\\xa0 Trump's ever-worsening legal woes may also be harming GOP odds this election - - eighteen former top Trump Administration officials call Trump's claims that he issued a 'standing order' to declassify any documents he stole from the White House as 'nonsense' and 'ludicrous.' Yet major media outlets have avoided informing the public that, regardless of classification status, Trump unlawfully STOLE the documents. Why is corporate media afraid to use such plain, accurate descriptions? Media critic and former corporate media 'insider' DAN FROOMKIN explains why, and discusses CNN's cancellation of 'Reliable Sources', the last remaining legitimate media criticism program on cable or broadcast TV news. Froomkin also delves into the major media outlets' recent gobsmacking, misleading, and inaccurate headlines, their fealty to false 'both sides' framing, and much more. Plus: a long-overdue and much-needed new ditty from musical satirist Randy Rainbow..."