Depoliticizing Anti-Trump Protests Plays Into Right-Wing Narrative
Much coverage of anti-Trump protests in San Jose by liberal outlets also wound up depoliticizing the violence except as an attack on cherished American values, just like the right.
Aaron Cantu
Reviving the Myth of the ‘Superpredator’
Today, news organizations mostly recognize that the superpredator was little more than an ugly and racist caricature reflecting the witch hunts of the times. But old myths die hard, and some news organizations were all too eager to revive the racist narrative.
Media and the ‘Melting Pot’
Not only does the melting pot cliché erase the presence of people in “undiscovered” neighborhoods, but it glosses over the structural reasons why they are now “gritty” and “forgotten.”
