What Happens When Politics Rewards The Worst Instincts

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of political rhetoric and media framing on violence, highlighted by a security scare at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

Gunfire at one of Washington’s most scripted nights jolts everything into the real world. We start with the White House Correspondents Dinner security scare, what we know about the suspect, and the bigger question nobody can dodge: how much does political rhetoric and media framing contribute to the temperature that makes violence feel “justified” to unstable people? From there, we get into the messy part: accountability. We talk about why armchair breakdowns of Secret Service movements don’...

People in this episode

Host: Elsa Kurt

Topics covered

• political rhetoric
• media framing
• violence
• accountability
• security
• politics

Keywords

• politics
• violence
• media
• accountability
• White House Correspondents Dinner
• security scare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: White House Correspondents Dinner

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