Great Q&A on "limits of history" to interpret the present, with Michael Socolow in CJR ! cjr.org/the_media_toda…

Have been acquiring 45s lately, and wow, there are a ton of rt-wing ones. You order a box of random selections off eBay for cheap, and maybe score a great Dolly Parton, but what the hell is that weird rant about Khomeini doing in there?! Lots of "Free Calley" stuff out there,too.

Right on, packed house, I was there!

A lot of NABJ clips circulating today. Enough with the amplification of this person showing himself as we have already seen him over and over again. I'm sending out this clip of Belafonte on the Smothers Brothers instead. youtube.com/watch?v=QFE4N5…

1968 offers some lessons for Democrats in 2024, but there is no reason to believe that history will repeat itself writes @profhendershot of Northwestern wp.me/p3I2YF-e8g

Carole King ftw

On @npr today I noted how we're motivated to find similarities, not differences, when using history, to make us feel less anxious about present issues. It's not 1968: Americans didn't use Tik Tok & Instagram back then & today we don't suffer Vietnam deaths npr.org/2024/08/03/nx-…

1968 offers some lessons for Democrats in 2024, but there is no reason to believe that history will repeat itself writes @profhendershot of Northwestern wp.me/p3I2YF-e8g

New Episode! "The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago" Even before Democrats met in Chicago in August to choose their presidential nominee, the year 1968 had been a turbulent, and often v… with Heather Hendershot Player links & show notes: unsunghistorypodcast.com/1968-dnc/ via

As we head into the DNC in Chicago next week, check out my interview with Heather Hendershot on the 1968 Chicago DNC, and that year's similarities and differences w/our own turbulent election season teenvogue.com/story/2024-dnc…

Let's hear it for Chicago film culture!!!!!

"The year 2024 is not 1968, but films about that period in American politics capture a feeling... seems likely the streets of Chicago will...once again fill with people who are, as... Howard Beale said in his famous rant in...'Network,' 'mad as hell'." theconversation.com/chicagoans-wat…

So great to visit on the show today!

"Coq au vin, or no coq au vin, this woman is in trouble!" OMG I remember watching this live the first time it aired! Still brilliant.

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention returning to Chicago next week, Heather Hendershot appeared on ABC 7 Chicago to discuss the takeaways from the 1968 DNC. Watch it here: spr.ly/6019lrqIc

Great podcast! Thanks Josh Hersh, @cjr and the whole producing team. cjr.org/podcast/1968-h…

New #ThatSaid podcast with michael zeldin. #MSWMedia Guest: Heather Hendershot Listen: redcircle.com/shows/9628320e…

My latest podcast episode with Heather Hendershot discussing the DNC Conventions of 1968 and today. #MSWMedia #thatsaidzeldin #Commpro podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tha…

“It’s not cable TV per se” that matters, Socolow said, but the meme culture that it feeds. Television’s future “is through viral-meme creation and social-media circulation.” Good Paul Farhi discussion of media evolution in commercial political communication theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

So true! Media lost interest in '68 narrative once clear '24 would not be as violent as feared. Too bad they lost sight of ways the earlier story remained instructive! E.g strong Black delegate presence such a contrast to '68. Fannie Lou Hamer evoked by Maxine Waters on 1st day!