Superman, Andor, Sydney Sweeney's Jeans: Can Media Really be Radical? (w/ Jared Ball)

Professor of media and Africana Studies at Morgan State, Jared Ball, responds to Norman Finkelstein’s recent debate with Briahna Joy Gray about whether the assassinations of civil rights activists and politicians in the 60s had a significant effect on left movements of the time. But first, after mentioning last year’s episode on the Oscar winning film American Fiction, the pair get sucked into a lengthy media criticism of The Superman Movie, Judas & the Black Messiah, the new Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad that’s been described as “eugenic,” and debate whether popular media of any kind can ever really be radical. Subscribe to Bad Faith with Briahna Joy Gray on YouTube for video of this episode. Find Bad Faith on Twitter (@badfaithpod) and Instagram (@badfaithpod). Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands)