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Your Call: Media coverage of white supremacy

On the November 18th edition  Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of Steve Bannon, former chief editor of the extreme right news and propaganda site, Breitbart.com -- and now Donald Trump's chief strategist.

We will also talk about the President-elect's tweets against what he calls "false" reporting in the New York Times -- and the impact fake news may have had on the election.  Join us live at 10am on Your Call, with Matt Martin, and you.

Guests:

Jeff Sharlet, associate professor of literary journalism at Dartmouth, and author of several books, including C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy , the best-seller The Family, and his latest Radiant Truths

Joshua Holland, contributor to The Nation and fellow with The Nation Institute.

Web Resources:

The Guardian: We need to talk about the online radicalisation of young, white men

The Globe and Mail: A fascist’s win, America’s moral loss

New York Magazine: Journalist Jeff Sharlet on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media

The Intercept: Steve Bannon Made Breitbart a Space for Pro-Israel Writers and Anti-Semitic Readers

Slate: The Real Problem Behind the Fake News

BuzzFeed: Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election

Recommended on the roundtable:

Adrian Chen, The New Yorker:  When A Populist Demagogue Takes Power

Masha Gessen, New York Review of Books:  Autocracy: Rules for Survival

Paul Waldman, Wall Street Journal:  How will Trump make America great again? Truthiness.

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