Topic: Media Coverage

The conversation shifts to the fluidity of modern language rules, such as gender pronouns and the shifting terminology used by Kamala Harris during the election cycle. The hosts question why certain events, like a recent police shooting of a black woman in Chicago, received minimal media coverage compared to similar events four years ago. They attribute this to "political calculus" and the DNC's desire to protect Harris's image as a law enforcement figure.

Congressman John Lewis and historian Hank Klibanoff discuss how the civil rights movement used media coverage to dramatize the struggle for equality. By putting their bodies on the line in front of cameras in places like Selma, activists forced northern newspapers and television networks to acknowledge the violence of the Jim Crow South.