Juan Gonzalez, News for All The People, on BookTV today.

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"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and American Media"

Juan Gonzalez; Joseph Torres

About the Program

Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now! and Joseph Torres, senior advisor of government and external affairs for Free Press, presents a history of race and the American media. The authors examine the role that segregation played in how the news was reported and argue that the media was often culpable for cultivating acts of racial violence. The authors also profile several minority journalists and report on their struggles in creating a more diverse press corps. Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres discuss their book with Amy Goodman, co-host and executive producer of Democracy Now! at the Great Hall of the Cooper Union in New York City.

About the Authors

Juan Gonzalez

Juan Gonzalez is the author of several books, including Roll Down Your Window: Stories from a Forgotten America. He is the former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and two-time recipient of the George Polk Award. Mr. Gonzalez is a co-host of Democracy Now! and a columnist for the New York Daily News.

* Saturday, January 7th at 11pm (ET)
* Sunday, January 8th at 2pm (ET)
* Monday, January 9th at 4am (ET)

http://www.booktv.org/Program/12940/News+for+All+the+People+The+Epic+Story+of+Race+and+American+Media.aspx


Juan Gonzalez also won a Polk award in 2011 for exposing fraud and corruption in Bloomberg's CityTime program.

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1. Amy bringing Juan up now.

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2. "Through the 19th Century, 90% of the deliveries made by the US postal service were newspapers."

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3. Juan ran down the role of prominent editors and publishers in organizing not only racial hate crimes

but race massacres.

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4. The mass media in the US came into being as a way to counter

the vote being given to the masses in the 1830s, a move that freaked out the 1%.