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Podcast: An Americanist
Episode: Why The News Won’t Drop The Grammys And What Bad Bunny Might Do Next
Description: TALK TO ME, TEXT ITEver notice how the stories we’re told to ignore somehow dominate every screen? We kick off by pulling apart the Grammys hangover in the news cycle—why outlets mock the show while feeding it two days of nonstop attention—and what that says about the incentives that keep outrage trending and nuance buried.From there, we wade into the Gavin Newsom swirl: age-gap headlines, an affair that detonated trust inside City Hall, and glossy media framing that treats politics like celebrity culture. We ask what accountability looks like when charm...