Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda confronts the reality of a broken Congress, the Associated Press sets off a controversy over objectivity in journalism after firing a reporter for her tweets, and New York political reporter Jeff Coltin talks to Jon Lovett about the upcoming New York City mayoral race.

Show Notes

BIDEN’S BIG TICKET AGENDA ITEMS

• NYT: As Talks Bog Down, Hopes for Bipartisan Deals on Biden’s Priorities Dim 
• WaPo: Biden’s big agenda is imperiled as his priorities stall in Congress and a debt fight looms 
• CNN: Key progressive initiatives stall in Congress as some on the left urge Biden to go bold, and go alone 
• CNN: White House drops price tag of infrastructure proposal in counteroffer to GOP lawmakers but wide divide remains 
• WSJ: Democrats Lower Their Sights on Healthcare Changes 
• WSJ: Biden Administration Extends Enrollment Period for Affordable Care Act
• Politico: Biden will host the Floyd family but will miss his police reform deadline 
• WaPo: Policing deal remains out of reach on Capitol Hill as the anniversary of George Floyd’s death approaches 
• CNN: Democrats searching for a path forward on stalled voting rights bill 
• Vox: Joe Manchin’s surprisingly bold proposal to fix America’s voting rights problem 
• NYT: Schumer Readies Plan B to Push Immigration Changes Unilaterally 
• CNBC: Democrats introduce sweeping immigration bill with 8-year pathway to citizenship 
• CNN: Hope fades for a bipartisan deal on gun background checks, key Democratic negotiator says 
• NPR: Here’s What The New Hate Crimes Law Aims To Do As Attacks On Asian Americans Rise 

THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM 

• BUZZFEED: AP Fires Staffer Emily Wilder 
• NY Mag: Who Is the Media Really For? 
• THE GUARDIAN: Outcry After AP Journalist Fired
• WaPo: Washington Post reverses prohibition on reporter from writing about sexual assault
• Guardian: Why did the Washington Post ban a sexual assault survivor from reporting on rape?
• BIZ INSIDER: Chris Cuomo Apologizes to his CNN colleagues on-air over news he coached his brother, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, through sexual-harassment allegations
• THE GUARDIAN: What is at stake with Nikole Hannah-Jones being denied tenure
• Vanity Fair: OUSTED AP JOURNALIST SAYS SHE WAS “HUNG OUT TO DRY” BY THE NEWS AGENCY
• WaPo Op-Ed: Opinion: Hey conservatives, this is why liberals don’t believe you care about free speech 
• Washington Monthly: The Left Must Shift From Media Criticism to Social Media Criticism
• NPR: Who Is The Media For? Journalist Sarah Jones On Ethics In The Industry
• New Republic: Will Israel’s Bombing of the AP Expose the Fake Neutrality of the U.S. Media’s Coverage?
• The Wrap: Brian Stelter Suggests CNN’s Chris Cuomo Should Take Leave of Absence
• Poynter: Chris Cuomo’s advice to Gov. Andrew Cuomo crosses a journalistic line – In a major conflict of interest, the CNN news anchor advised his brother and his staff on how to respond to sexual harassment allegations.
• The Atlantic: Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress ideas they consider dangerous.
• The Atlantic: A Culture of Free Speech Protects Everyone
• Vanity Fair: “AN EMBARRASSMENT”: DID CONSERVATIVES BULLY UNC INTO STRIPPING NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES’S TENURE?
• CNN: Rick Santorum departs CNN after criticism of Native American comments
• AP: CNN cuts ties with Rick Santorum over disparaging comments

NEW YORK MAYORAL RACE

• NYT: These 8 Democrats Want to Be Mayor of New York City. We Have Questions. 
• NYT: Mapping New York City’s Mayoral Campaign Money 
• Politico: NYC Mayor Money Tracker 
• NYT: Who Wants to Be Mayor of New York City? 
• Politico: MAGA world is in love with the New York mayor’s race 
• The New Yorker: Policing Politics Takes Over the New York City Mayoral Race 
• Vanity Fair: “There’s a real divide”: shifting politics over Israel is reverberating in the New York mayor’s race
• The Rolling Stone: The New York City Mayoral Race Has Been Weird. Here’s What You Need to Know
• NYT: Andrew Yang, Looking for Endorsement, Offends Gay Democratic Club 
• Teen Vogue: Andrew Yang Is Leading the New York City Mayor’s Race, But His Policies Are Off Base 
• NYT: N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Agree on This: No More Virtual Debates 
• NYT: Candidates Clash Over Future of New York in First Mayoral Debate
• Intelligencer: The New York Mayoral Race Has Become a Zoom Hell 
• NYT: How Does Ranked-Choice Voting Work in New York? 
• City&State: What if the next mayor finished second? 

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