Arts Alive! podcast: NPR’s Eric Deggans

Since 2013, Eric Deggans has been the TV critic for National Public Radio. He’s also an NPR media analyst.

Deggans, who’s frequently called upon to act as a commentator on CNN and other news outlets, has been a resident of St. Petersburg since the mid 1990s.

In today’s Arts Alive! podcast, Deggans talks about the road that brought him from his Indiana hometown to the then-St. Petersburg Times, where he grew disillusioned with writing about pop music and transitioned into the TV critic’s job.

This wide-ranging conversation covers his book Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation and its declarations about TV, race and money, and the recent passing of television game-changer Norman Lear.

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