The 1968 Democratic National Convention is most often remembered for the “Battle of Michigan Avenue,” when police beat protestors in the streets as they chanted “the whole world is watching!” Heather Hendershot revisits that complicated and turbulent week in 1968, arguing that it was a pivotal moment for the mainstreaming and nationalization of the notion that the mainstream media was dominated by “liberal bias.” Further, she takes her analysis beyond the streets and inside the convention hall itself, where battles raged about voting rights and social justice-like police brutality, issues that remain pressing today.
Heather Hendershot is professor of film and media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her undergraduate degree is from Yale, and her PhD is from the University of Rochester. Her most recent book is When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Other books include Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line (2016) and What’s Fair on the Air: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest (2011).
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