authoritarians. too many journalists are caught in a mindless neutrality between democracy and its saboteurs, between fact and fiction. it s time to take a stand. and joining us now, jelani cobb, staff writer for the new yorker, and professor of jim at columbia university. and jonathan altar, both msnbc analysts. professor cobb, in 2021, what adjustments should the political media be making in their approach to the coverage? there are a lot of things that we learned or should have learned, rather, from what we saw unfold from 2015 to the present but we ve been slow to see those things translate into how coverage has changed. the first is that it is absolutely true that we re
some of my friends sitting down here will tell you, strom thurmond voted to extend the voting rights act. strom thurmond. even strom thurmond came to for voting rights. but republicans of today can t and won t. joining us now, jelani cobb, staff writer for the new yorker and professor of jim at columbia university, and eddie glaude, chairman of the african american studies department at princeton university and an msnbc contributor. professor glaude, president biden offered a few different historical frames of where we stand tonight on voting rights, including that point we just heard, that even strom thurmond eventually got there and got to a place where no republican senator stands tonight. right. so, first of all, i m really