On this week’s media roundtable, we’ll discuss NPR’s interview with Jason Kessler, organizer of Unite the Right rallies, and the Monsanto trial.
The interview with Kessler sparked widespread criticism for giving white supremacists a platform. How should media outlets cover white supremacists and white nationalist groups?
We’ll also discuss the stunning Monsanto verdict. A jury recently ruled that the company was liable for a terminally ill man’s cancer. Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area schools groundskeeper, has been awarded $289 million in damages.
Guests:
Will Sommer, reporter for the Daily Beast
Carey Gillam, journalist, public interest researcher for US Right to Know, and author of Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer and the Corruption of Science
Web Resource:
MIC: Alt-right Activists at “Unite the Right 2” Sound a Lot Like Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson
The Daily Beast: Thousands of Protesters Outnumber White Nationalists in D.C. a Year After Charlottesville
Vice: Gab Is the Alt-Right Social Network Racists Are Moving to
The Guardian: One man's suffering exposed Monsanto's secrets to the world
