The $2,000 check is indeed far from a perfect plan to help ordinary Americans, yet if it is the only plan currently on the table, many in corporate media are inclined to leave it there.

Media who egged on Trump's candidacy, trivialized his venality and normalized as extreme-but-within-range his and his party's every anti-democratic outrage, are poorly placed to take principled umbrage when that juggernaut takes the course that everyone and their mother said it would.

"Just as we know that trickle-down, giving money to the rich, doesn't help—we know long-term unemployment hurts. A lot of the people that are unemployed six, eight, ten months, they may never work again."

A reflection of the sorts of conversations we hope have offered some voice or context or information that you might not have heard elsewhere, or that might help you assess the news you are hearing.

While we await the day that Trump's face and voice are no longer at the top of every newscast, it ain't over til it's over. And harms he does as a lame duck are harms nonetheless.

Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers' health and safety a "tradeoff" for Covid relief.

"Critical Race Theory [is] basically the idea that we still have problems with structural racism, and we don't get away from those problems by not talking about it, by having the 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' approach."

Trump's obviously suppressive executive order has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm.

"Family members of the condemned are often erased and have been, for the most part, throughout this process, and I try to really keep that at the center of my work."

"He's failed in his job to make sure that the people come first, and not these companies."