Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark McKinnon: "News or Entertainment?"
Channel: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Date: 2016-04-06

In the 2012 presidential campaign, a handful of media outlets deployed "fact-checking" divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates.  Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. Ta-Nehisi Coates, senior editor of The Atlantic, joined Hill & Knowlton Strategies senior advisor Mark McKinnon to discuss the changing role of the political media in the U.S. and what emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future.