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Chatted with @brianstelter about covering racists:
-Every time a white supremacist agrees to talk, they're trying to weaponize your media platform for recruitment
-If you print a white supremacist talking point in your newspaper, it doesn't refute or fact-check itself
More quick thoughts on the debate over how to cover white supremacists here: https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-august-10-2018 …
And for the in-depth version of this conversation, featuring some of the best journalists who cover white supremacists, check out our @OntheMedia episode:https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-2018-03-02/ …
Let me emphasize that second point: white supremacist ideas are not obviously wrong or transparently ridiculous. Two Fox News commentators, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, have been echoing white nationalist rhetoric on their shows. Rep. Steve King has done this repeatedly.
You may still think, "If I publish this racist comment, people will see how racist it is & be disgusted!" or "I'll allow this racist to indict himself by his transparently racist comments. Everyone knows how wrong this is! I don't have to explain." That's not how it works.
Sean Hannity has nightly strategy discussions with the President.
So why does Brian always stick up for Maggie haberman when she does this?
My guess would involve blow jobs.
Did you talk to him about the ridiculous use of “white anxiety” to excuse overt racism?
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