#1638: The Election, The Press, And Race
Anna Holmes, Tanzina Vega, and Tanner Colby are joined by Jamelle Bouie to discuss the way the press has handled issues of race throughout the presidential election season, as well as the implications of the police assassinations of Black men in Tulsa and Charlotte.
Tanzina Vega is a digital correspondent for CNNMoney where she covers race and inequality in America. Prior to working at CNN, Vega was a staff reporter for The New York Times where she created and covered a beat on race and ethnicity for the national desk, reported on digital media and advertising for the business desk and covered the New York City courts for the metro section. Follow her on Twitter, @tanzinavega
Jamelle Bouie is Slate’s chief political correspondent.
Follow him on Twitter, @jbouie
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Samantha Bee: Trump's Candidacy Is The Bed Media Made By Giving Him Billions In Free Airtime | Media Matters
Inside the Mind of the Undecided Voter | GQ
Josh Barro on Twitter: "I think if we're going to (reasonably) define racism quite broadly, then we have to think of it as a bad personal trait, not a horrible one." | Twitter
I Was RFK's Speechwriter. Now I'm Voting for Trump. Here's Why. | POLITICO Magazine
Adam Servianski on Twitter: "this is piece is a good example of how the toxic core of trumpism is being made respectable" | Twitter
Liberals keep denigrating the new nationalism as racist. This is nonsense. | The Week
Conflicting Policy From Trump: To Keep, and Remove, Tax Cut | The New York Times
The Truth About 'False Balance' - The New York Times | The New York Times
Police Killings of Terence Crutcher and Keith Lamont ScottWhy body cameras don't solve everything | CNN
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Video Released in Terence Crutcher's Killing by Tulsa Police | The New York Times
Tulsa officer charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher | The Grio
Charlotte protests erupt over police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott | Vox
The outrageous North Carolina law that could stop the public from seeing police shooting videos | Vox
2 shootings: Why Charlotte exploded and Tulsa prayed | CNN
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