BOTH-SIDESISM AT WORK: TEXAS FESTIVAL PLATFORMS EXTREMISTS ALONGSIDE CIVIL RIGHTS ICONS

The The Texas Tribune reports:

Leave it to mainstream media events to pretend that placing anti-civil rights politicians on the same stage as faith leaders and labor legends is harmless civic discourse. The Texas Tribune Festival is serving up its classic both-sides cocktail, treating attacks on voting rights and Black democracy as mere differences of opinion.

Raphael Warnock, Kevin Stitt, Dolores Huerta, Maggie Haberman and other prominent voices in American political and civic life join us in Austin next month

— The Texas Tribune

Normalizing reactionaries who attack voting rights right next to civil rights icons isn’t balanced journalism—it is corporate media complicity.