Thread by @froomkin

I have some video highlights from yesterday's marvelous #CJDDemocracySummit that I'd like to share with you. I think they will be worth your time. I am most interested in how the journalism industry is failing to raise the alarm about white Christian authoritarianism. 1/X

Spend 4 minutes with @nhannahjones on the need to "grapple with how our profession has failed, sometimes with intention, sometimes because of blind spots, and sometimes through a misperception of our role... to stand for a multiracial democracy": 2/X

Spend 1 minute with Steven Levitsky describing what has happened to the Republican Party and why: 3/X

Spend 5 minutes with @jasonintrator and @ruthbenghiat talking about journalistic institutions engaging in anticipatory obedience to authoritarianism (like CNN):
4/X

Spend 3.5 minutes with @SIfill_ on one specific media failure: not talking about the extraordinary role of gerrymandering in the GOP’s narrow House victory:
5/X

Spend 1 minute with @AsteadWesley talking about the "journalistic calibrations" required to survive in a newsroom:
6/X

Spend 2.5 minutes with @WesleyLowery on how there are different standards inside newsrooms when something cuts against the sensibility of white people:
7/X

I sure wish there were a better way to do clips from Youtube. 8/8