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Al Sharpton, BLM and the MSM in New York with Ron Howell #FPABriefings
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Ron Howell - veteran reporter with AP, ABC, New York Daily News and New York Newsday is a close observer of the world, the US, the city, and the media. He now teaches journalism at Brooklyn College and has been studying Black political leadership in New York, hence his last two books, including this latest “warts and all” portrait of Reverend Al Sharpton. Through the 1980s, the mainstream press demonized Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite, even as their reflexive coverage helped make him what he is today. As host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation news program, Sharpton has more viewers than those reporters ever had readers. Today, Sharpton occupies a pedestal that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered and often scorned him three decades ago. His chum Eric Adams is Mayor of New York – and Rhode Island University has just revoked the honorary degree of former Mayor and Sharpton baiter Rudi Giuliani! In his perceptive coverage, Ron Howell relates Sharpton’s promotion and tells about the glory years of American newspapers, when Sharpton began his rise and about the politicians who intersected with Sharpton as he climbed the ladder.
62 episodes
Manage episode 337243954 series 3380399
Ron Howell - veteran reporter with AP, ABC, New York Daily News and New York Newsday is a close observer of the world, the US, the city, and the media. He now teaches journalism at Brooklyn College and has been studying Black political leadership in New York, hence his last two books, including this latest “warts and all” portrait of Reverend Al Sharpton. Through the 1980s, the mainstream press demonized Sharpton as a buffoon, a fake minister, a hustler, an opportunist, a demagogue, a race traitor, and an anti-Semite, even as their reflexive coverage helped make him what he is today. As host of MSNBC’s PoliticsNation news program, Sharpton has more viewers than those reporters ever had readers. Today, Sharpton occupies a pedestal that would have shocked the white newspaper reporters who covered and often scorned him three decades ago. His chum Eric Adams is Mayor of New York – and Rhode Island University has just revoked the honorary degree of former Mayor and Sharpton baiter Rudi Giuliani! In his perceptive coverage, Ron Howell relates Sharpton’s promotion and tells about the glory years of American newspapers, when Sharpton began his rise and about the politicians who intersected with Sharpton as he climbed the ladder.
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