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Elvis’s life before fame featured repeated experiences with humiliation, but he also experienced something else characteristic of the South and the United States in general: the wages of Whiteness. An effort to place Elvis more accurately in history doesn’t just require a recognition that he saw his indebtedness to Black musicians. It also means th
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
mean anything at all. On the front page of the gray old Times, I’m liable to encounter a chatty article about frying with propane gas. CNN lavished hours of airtime on a runaway bride. The magisterial tones of Walter Cronkite, America’s rich uncle, are lost to history, replaced by the ex-cheerleader mom style of Katie Couric. One reason the notion
... See moreMartin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Walter Duranty is now largely considered a media outlier or an anomaly, a reporter whose character flaws slipped through the editorial cracks of his institution. But the reality is that Duranty fits a prominent pattern at the Times of a star reporter whose celebrity enables him or her to commit journalistic malfeasance in plain sight of his editors
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
how Blackness is selectively celebrated (and contained) within the white imagination.