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The Media Should Be Biased—Against Authoritarianism | Right Now With Perry Bacon
The news media has a powerful role in democracy, even if it often doesn’t acknowledge that, says Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalism historian who teaches at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As she explained in a recent episode of TNR’s Right Now With Perry Bacon, in the Jim Crow era, many white-owned newspapers in the South helped legitimize and entrench Jim Crow, while Black papers and journalists told the stories of lynchings. In the 1950s and ’60s, Black reporters detailed the horrors of segregation and favorably covered the Civil Rights Movement, helping lead white-owned outlets to…
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