We’re streaming right and left, and with Election Day inching near, there’s no shortage of politically minded entertainment programming from which to choose. This week, we’ll look at the dramas, documentaries, mockumentaries and stage shows which await.
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Nicole Sperling, New York Times: “Before Nov. 3, watch this and this and this”
And then there were none
Mallory Noe-Payne, WVTF Radio: “She’s a one-person newsroom, but Lee Enterprises kept cutting”
Rosa Cartagena, Washingtonian: “A local journalist in Virginia ran a newspaper on her own. Then she got fired for talking to the press.”
Ashley Spinks Dugan: Twitter thread
Pay-to-play network replacing local newspapers
Davey Alba & Jack Nicas, New York Times: “As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place”
Emily Glazer & Keach Hagey, Wall Street Journal: “Partisan sites posing as local news expand ahead of election”
Steve Waldman, Poynter: “Opinion: Faux local news sites are flooding America. Here’s how we fix it.”
A new player: Missouri Independent
Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent: “Introducing the Missouri Independent: ‘Detectives for the people’”
Debating the debate
Alana Wise, NPR: “Debate commission to mute candidates’ mics at start of each segment”
Ted Johnston, Deadline: “Donald Trump’s campaign objects to debate topics, possible rules changes for next event”
Tom Jones, Poynter: “Who is Donald Trump complaining about now? NBC News’ Kristen Welker, the next debate moderator”
Jonathan Chait, The Intelligencer: “The news media isn’t biased against Trump. It’s biased for him.”
Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show: “Trump must change strategy in the next debate”
Feds file antitrust suit against Google
David McCabe & Cecilia Kang, New York Times: “U.S. accuses Google of illegally protecting monopoly”
Steve Lohr, New York Times: “What is happening with the antitrust suit against Google?”
Brian X. Chen, New York Times: “It’s Google’s world. We just live in it.”
Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post: “How does Google’s monopoly hurt you? Try these searches.”
