What Are Journalists For?
Description
On the finale of the first season of Tricky, Emily and Heather are joined by media critic and NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen to discuss the journalism that exposed the Trump administration's atrocities at the border and the role of the American press in an era of competing realities.
Reading List:
ProPublica's initial reporting from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility:
https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy
Our friend Margaret Sullivan's column about reporter Olivia Nuzzi's decision to play the ProPublica clip during a White House press briefing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-reporter-at-the-white-house-decided-to-play-the-audio-of-children-sobbing-somebody-had-to/2018/06/19/bbb8d814-73aa-11e8-805c-4b67019fcfe4_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.db8b0e4c5b4f
On the aftermath of Trump's executive order ending family separations:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-new-border-crisis-following-trumps-executive-order
A New York Times explainer on how due process works for undocumented immigrants:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/us/politics/due-process-undocumented-immigrants.html
Our guest Jay Rosen's latest blog post about the media's relationship with the Trump administration:
http://pressthink.org/2018/06/its-time-for-the-press-to-suspend-normal-relations-with-the-trump-presidency/