On the next Your Call’s media roundtable, we’ll discuss coverage of the upcoming presidential election in Mexico. The escalation of violence, corruption, and poverty are key issues for voters. In 2017, nearly 30,000 people were killed in Mexico, and 53 million people live in poverty.
Yesterday was the deadliest day for journalism in the US. A gunman killed five people in the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland. We’ll also look at coverage of the long term consequences of Supreme Court decisions, and the future of the court with Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring.
Guests:
Alfredo Corchado, Mexico border correspondent for The Dallas Morning News, and author of Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
Bob Egelko, reporter with San Francisco Chronicle covering state and federal courts in California, the Supreme Court, and the State Bar
Mark Joseph Stern, reporter for Slate covering the courts and the law
Web Resources:
The Philadelphia Inquirer :'Homelands' author: 'I was born in Mexico … for someone like me, it's heartbreaking'
The Guardian: Mexico election: the candidates, the stakes and the key issues
SF Chronicles: Kennedy’s departure reopens abortion rights, other issues once thought settled
Slate:Partisan Gerrymandering Is About to Get Much Worse
