That's one of the arguments in professor Nikki Usher's new book " News for the Rich, White, and Blue : How Place and Power Distort American Journalism." And when audiences are imagined, especially those paying audiences, those audiences are imagined as White." Book cover for "News for the Rich, White, and Blue" by Nikki UsherSo that's the rich and the White parts of her title -- but what about the blue? She said the blue is the most complicated because major newsrooms don't think of themselves as liberal outlets. "But the people who still trust American journalism are overwhelmingly liberal," she says.

Source: CNN July 09, 2021 21:22 UTC