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Will talks to musician and climate journalist Jael Holzman (Ekko Astral, Heatmap News) about her experience as a congressional reporter at outlets like Axios and Politico, and the conditions that led her to quit. We discuss the institutionalized bias against accurate reporting on topics like climate change and trans rights & healthcare, the outrageous complacency with baseless stories from the likes of LibsofTikTok, and other incidents of casual “lavender scare” that permeate the D.C. press corp.
Check out Jael’s medium post on quitting congressional journalism here:
https://medium.com/@jaelholzman/why-im-leaving-congressional-journalism-ee97e2bbebf6
And get into Ekko Astral here:
https://ekkoastral.bandcamp.com/album/pink-balloons
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