The Conners premiered on ABC on October 16, 2018, as a continuation of the hit series Roseanne. This came after the Roseanne revival was canceled after one season due to controversial comments Barr made on X (then Twitter). Instead, the show spun off into The Conners, where Barr’s titular character was killed off in an accidental opioid overdose.

Rainn Wilson had MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on his Soul Boom podcast, where they discussed why people distrusted traditional media. The host of The 11th Hour noted that people “losing trust is not by accident” and it was “by design.” Ruhle said Donald Trump’s administration is making a “concerted effort to destroy the media because …