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Switching Codes with Eric Deggans

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Switching Codes with Eric Deggans

@Deggans

Knight Chair, Journalism and Media Ethics, Washington & Lee University. Critic-at-large, NPR. Author, "Race-Baiter: How Media Wields Dangerous Words..."

St. Petersburg, Fla.

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Born November 6

Joined March 2008

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Switching Codes with Eric Deggans
@Deggans
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Wondering what to watch on TV this summer? Check out this preview of new and returning shows I whipped up for NPR and Substack which includes new Star Trek, final season of The Bear and a great film about the most influential R&B band in music history. READ:
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@Deggans
Mar 23, 2020
For those who followed my story of being kicked out of my mother's hospital room by virus regulations last week, an update: My beautiful, worshipful mother Carolyn Jean Williams died at 10:02 p.m. central last night at age 81. The hospital allowed me to spend Sunday with her...
Switching Codes with Eric Deggans
@Deggans
Sep 28, 2024
We really, REALLY should be doing this in America…
CBS Sunday Morning 🌞
@CBSSunday
Sep 28, 2024
Being able to identify hoaxes, avoid scams, and debunk propaganda is a civic skill required in today’s information society. That’s why the curriculum of students in Finland includes media literacy lessons, aimed at safeguarding a precious resource: the truth.
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Mar 18, 2020
I just got kicked out of my mother’s room at Methodist hospital, Southlake, in Merrillville, IN. No visitors allowed due to virus concerns. She has cancer, other ailments. Is weak, frail. She’s been there since Friday, when she fell in her apartment and couldn’t get up for hours.
Switching Codes with Eric Deggans
@Deggans
Oct 25, 2024
The Wrap is reporting the LATimes had also planned a "Case Against Trump" series to run alongside its Kamala Harris endorsement before the owner quashed it:
LA Times Planned 'Case Against Trump' Series Alongside Kamala Harris Endorsement Before Owner...
From thewrap.com
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@Deggans
Oct 22, 2024
An NPR investigation found that, since 2022, Donald Trump has threatened to prosecute, investigate, arrest or otherwise punish perceived enemies more than 100 times, including attacks on fellow Americans he calls "the enemy from within."
Trump has made more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies
From npr.org
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Oct 9, 2023
All those people misled into believing that journalists are enemies of the people, look at what some journalists are risking to bring you the news from Israel. And ask yourself if the guy who often slings around that enemy of the people line, would ever have the guts to do
Nic Robertson
@NicRobertsonCNN
Oct 7, 2023
Just landed at Ben Gurion airport Tel Aviv - then the sirens went off #Israel
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Mar 23, 2020
Replying to @Deggans
... I'm going to miss you so much ma, but I'm glad your suffering is over and you can join your beloved mother, father, sisters and brothers in the next world.
Switching Codes with Eric Deggans
@Deggans
Aug 13, 2023
This story about police in a small Kansas town raiding the local newspaper and seizing items in a way that seems illegal is chilling and cannot be tolerated. Time to spread this story far and wide and pressure local officials to explain themselves.
Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones...
From kansasreflector.com
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Mar 18, 2020
Replying to @Deggans
...I think there are other victims of this virus lockdown who are being kept from loved ones when they are needed most. And it nearly broke my heart to see my mother crying as I had to leave the room, unsure of when I would get to see her again.
Switching Codes with Eric Deggans
@Deggans
Oct 25, 2024
My colleague David Folkenflik digs into a thorny question: Did some mainstream media outlets temper their coverage in order to avoid angering Donald Trump?
Did the 'L.A. Times' and other news outlets pull punches to appease Trump?
From npr.org
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@Deggans
Feb 13, 2024
CBS finally released Super Bowl ratings: It was most-watched telecast in TV history, w/average 123.4 million viewers, up 7% from 2023; more than 200 million watched all or part of it across all networks. 120 million watched on CBS alone, also a record. The Taylor Effect indeed.
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The 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing remains to be the most-watched broadcast in US television history with an estimate of 125-150 million viewers, while Super Bowl LVIII emerged as the second most-watched. forbes.com/sites/maryroel… cnn.com/2024/02/12/med…
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Nov 8, 2020
CNN brings receipts to Fox News. Will we see a retraction or correction?
CNN Communications
@CNNPR
Nov 7, 2020
Replying to @FoxNews
This is a blatant lie. We absolutely did discuss the pandemic when looking at the celebratory crowds. Receipt:
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@Deggans
Jul 14, 2023
Please stop with that nonsense. The NAACP was formed in 1909. Any white person who doesn’t know the phrase colored people would be considered insulting in modern times coming from a white person outside very specific situations probably shouldn’t be serving in Congress.
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@POCaucasian
Jul 14, 2023
Replying to @Deggans
@NAACP would like a word with you, sir.
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