Breaking the News
Breaking the News is a weekly media roundtable with media critic Jeff Jarvis, and The Mayday Network cofounders Julie Roginsky, and Michelle Kinney. New episodes drop every Friday, breaking down the media’s biggest wins, misses, and blind spots — and how the stories we’re told shape power, politics, and what Americans believe is possible.
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[RECORDED LIVE FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2026]
Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested despite a judge finding no legal basis to do so. This is tyranny.
Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Jeff Jarvis unpack what these arrests reveal about the state of press freedom in the United States, why legacy media continues to downplay authoritarian behavior, and how journalists outside the corporate press are increasingly being targeted.
This episode confronts what happens when reporting becomes a risk — and silence becomes policy.
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Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
Tuesday Jan 13, 2026
In the first episode of Breaking the News, Jeff Jarvis, Julie Roginsky, and Michelle Kinney examine how American media is helping normalize authoritarianism — from the killing of Renée Goode to the press’s increasingly sanitized coverage of Trump’s behavior and abuse of power. Through a sharp, unsparing conversation about language, narrative, and access journalism, they connect how violence, corruption, and delusion become “just politics” when the press refuses to tell the truth.
This episode sets the tone for a new weekly series dedicated to holding the media accountable for how power is reported, framed, and ultimately protected.