Article in The New Republic by Perry Bacon, 6/10/26

Headline:  “What Today’s Media Can Learn From the Civil Rights–Era Black Press”

Subhead:  “Journalism professor Kathy Roberts Forde argues that journalists should lean into values such as promoting democracy instead of hiding between claims of neutrality.”

“Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that it’s critical that journalists and media organizations stop pretending that there is a neutral way to cover the news that expresses no underlying values. A “view from nowhere,” the term that journalism expert Jay Rosen uses, is misleading (journalism requires making decisions on what to cover and how) and empowers people who use this neutrality standard to attack all journalism as biased. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://newrepublic.com/article/211588/today-media-can-learn-civil-rights-era-black-press