Summary: <p>Trump may be out of office, but the GOP's campaign to limit voting rights, free speech, and reproductive rights is still in full-swing. On this week’s On the Media, where do you focus your attention when there are little fires everywhere? Plus, a look at a chilling new look for America: the "authoritarian mullet" — culture war in the front, the destruction of democracy in the back. And, how critical race theory became a right-wing bogeyman. </p> <p>1. Jay Rosen [<a href="https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@jayrosen_nyu</a>], professor of journalism at New York University and media critic for PressThink, on why journalists should still be in "emergency mode." <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/how-cover-ongoing-siege-democracy-on-the-media">Listen</a>.</p> <p>2. Jake Grumbach [<a href="https://twitter.com/JakeMGrumbach?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@JakeMGrumbach</a>], assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington, on how Republican state lawmakers reduce "democratic performance" when they take power. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/laboratories-democratic-backsliding-on-the-media">Listen</a>.</p> <p>3. Ryan P. Delaney [<a href="https://twitter.com/rpatrickdelaney?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@rpatrickdelaney</a>], education reporter for St. Louis Public Radio, on a Missouri school district's debate over Critical Race Theory, and Adam Harris [<a href="https://twitter.com/AdamHSays?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@AdamHSays</a>], staff writer at The Atlantic, on how conservatives constructed the critical race theory boogeyman. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/critical-race-theory-real-critical-race-theory-on-the-media">Listen</a>.</p> <p><em>Music:</em></p> <p><em>Little Motel - Modest Mouse </em></p> <p><em>Auld Lang Syne - Salsa Celtica </em></p> <p><em>L’Illusionista - Nino Rota </em></p> <p><em>Paperback Writer - Quartetto d'Archi Dell'orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi</em></p> <p><em>Milestones - Bill Evans Trio</em></p> <p><em>Going Home - Hank Jones & Charlie Haden (post at 2:24 or 3:07)</em></p> <p><em>Quizás, Quizás, Quizás - Ramón Solé (back time this)</em></p> <p><em>In the Bath - Randy Newman </em></p>
