Political Rewind: Author Heather Hendershot discusses the 1968 DNC in her book "When the News Broke"
Description
Friday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut sits down with author Heather Hendershot to discuss her book When the News Broke. Hendershot is a professor of film and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her books include What’s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.
Panelist:
Heather Hendershot, professor, MIT, @ProfHendershot
Timestamps:
:00- Introductions
3:00- What was Chicago like in 1968
6:00- How the media was deemed liberal
15:00- Then Mayor Daley calls for National Guard
24:00- Journalists attacked
26:00- Julian Bond's role in DNC
35:00- Global unrest in 1968
39:00- The term fake news
44:00- Walter Cronkite interview with Mayor Daley
Monday on Political Rewind: AJC columnist Patricia Murphy joins the panel.