Political Rewind: Author Heather Hendershot discusses the 1968 DNC in her book "When the News Broke"
Friday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut sits down with author Heather Hendershot to discuss her book When the News Broke. Hendershot is a professor of film and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her books include What\u2019s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.\n\nPanelist: \nHeather Hendershot, professor, MIT, @ProfHendershot\n\nTimestamps: \n:00- Introductions \n3:00- What was Chicago like in 1968\n6:00- How the media was deemed liberal \n15:00- Then Mayor Daley calls for National Guard \n24:00- Journalists attacked \n26:00- Julian Bond's role in DNC\n35:00- Global unrest in 1968\n39:00- The term fake news\n44:00- Walter Cronkite interview with Mayor Daley\n\nMonday on Political Rewind: AJC columnist Patricia Murphy joins the panel.