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Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
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They don’t actively, aggressively, despise Black and brown people over here, but then just have some sort of principled problem with news reporters, separately, over there; it’s all of a piece.
And that piece has a history that we’d do well to learn—not only because of the ongoing, institutional harms it helps us see, but also the hope and resistance that’s there in that history, as well.
We get into it with Joseph Torres, senior advisor for reparative policy and programs at the group Free Press, co-creator of the project Media 2070, and co-author, with Juan Gonzalez, of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media.
Transcript: ‘The FCC Is Trying to Roll Back Protections Won Over the Past 60 Years’Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent press coverage of Trump and TikTok.
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