Journalism, if you believe the headlines, is always at some kind of crossroads. Tampa Bay is one of the largest media markets in the U.S., and its home to talented journalists whose work reaches across the Bay area and country.
Eric Deggans—who worked at Tampa Bay Times from 2006-2013—is now a Knight Professor of Journalism and Media Ethics at Washington and Lee University is one such journalist and also critic at large at NPR.
He joined WMNF’s The Skinny by Zoom on Friday morning to discuss the recent criticism of controversial Editor-in-chief of CBS News, Bari Weiss, who recently pulled a story about the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador…