Summary: <p>In recent weeks, the Trump administration has removed multiple people from key watchdog roles. On the week’s On the Media: how the president keeps weakening the tools meant to hold him accountable. Plus, looking for truth when police keep lying.</p> <p>1. Liz Hempowicz [<a href="https://twitter.com/lizhempowicz">@lizhempowicz</a>] of the <a href="https://www.pogo.org/">Project on Government Oversight</a> on the breakdown of the accountability state under President Trump. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/trumps-comprehensive-assault-accountability-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>2. Eric Boehlert [<a href="https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert">@EricBoehlert</a>] on what stories that frame cops as victims teach us about the relationship between police and the press. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/media-police-fast-food-hoaxes-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>3. Kevin Riley [<a href="https://twitter.com/ajceditor?lang=en">@ajceditor</a>], Atlanta Journal Constitution editor, on what happens when reporters demand more skeptical coverage of law enforcement. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/rush-editorial-judgment-averted-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>4. Dan Taberski [<a href="https://twitter.com/dtaberski">@dtaberski</a>] on his podcast series “<a href="https://www.topic.com/runningfromcops">Running From Cops</a>,” which interrogated how the newly-cancelled series COPS made the world seem like a more crime-ridden place. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/what-running-cops-learned-cops-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p>
