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The Scramble: Journalism Gone Awry, and Northern Racism

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The Scramble reacts to new developments in the University of Virginia case of alleged sexual assault and Rolling Stone’sconcern about some its reporting. 

Then there's a second magazine story: what’s behind the mass -- and we do mean mass -- resignations at The New Republic. Most of its full-time staff and stable of contributing editors quit on the same day. Why?

We also continue the conversation about race in America, and in particular in the northeast. Our guest shares stories of de facto racism in places like Connecticut, where baseball legend Jackie Robinson had a difficult time buying a house after his big break into Major League Baseball.

GUESTS:

  • David Folkenflik - NPR media correspondent
  • Zoe Carpenter - DC reporter for The Nation
  • Jason Sokol - Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn, The Conflicted Soul of the Northeast
  • David Barrow - Owner of Tolland Bicycle

SONGS:

Jason Sokol will be speaking at The Institute Library in New Haven on December 11 at 7:00pm.

Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

Tucker Ives is WNPR's morning news producer.
Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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