Intercept from the start, building up a scrappy and smart bureau from scratch and infusing our independent voice on politics with his skepticism, wisdom, and wit. Dan never wavered in his fierce commitment to the Intercept’s core mission of producing original accountability journalism. Revival of White House Watch In September 2018, Froomkin revived White House Watch as an independent website. Presswatchers On June 8, 2022, in her assertion that many do not understand that an "existential fight for rule of law" is at stake in the hearings of the Select Committee on the January 6 attack on the capitol, Heather Cox Richardson noted that in his publication, Presswatchers, Froomkin had "explored how U.S. news organizations have failed to communicate to readers that we are on a knife edge between democracy and authoritarianism", and noted his plea for journalists to "frame the events in the larger context of Republican attempts to overturn our democracy". On August 26, 2022 Press Watch published an article in its newsletter, Presswatchers, and online, by Froomkin in the same vein, exploring how media again are failing to communicate to their readers effectively regarding dangers evident in the policies, actions, and campaigning messages of the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, that emulate and exceed those used by Trump to move the country into authoritarianism and toward fascism. He conjectures that the media are failing to exercise their appropriate role in a democracy by reporting in a "neutral" style in order to appear "fair" by attempting to "balance" coverage, using euphemisms that fail to convey how dangerous what should be reported is, and even allowing the politician to dictate terms of engagement that are unprecedented in professional reporting, such as banning access to reporters who report things the candidate dislikes or limiting access only to those agreeing to allow critical review of what the media intends to produce before publication or broadcast. He asserts that DeSantis is "gaming" political journalists just as Trump had, which leads to a "normalizing" of dangerous actions and trends that should be reported as being dangerous and, that this should be reported consistently in order to keep readers from becoming complacent rather than increasingly concerned. Froomkin labels this failure as "journalistic malpractice" and that it may be found even in highly respected media such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and others, as well as, among national broadcast media. He