The Los Angeles Times quoted Roberto Suro on the new immigration bill introduced by Democrats. “This is the White House signaling to the Hill, ‘We haven’t given up on comprehensive immigration reform,’” he said.
CBS This Morning cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the very high percentage of male artists on Billboard's year-end country chart between 2014 and 2018.
ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV featured Allissa Richardson on the shift toward activism among people of color in California. "You have a combination of student efforts that have banded together with labor groups that make the activist atmosphere a bit more special," she said.
The Associated Press quoted Martin Kaplan about Rush Limbaugh's influence on political discourse. “What he did was to bring a paranoia and really mean, nasty rhetoric and hyperpartisanship into the mainstream,” he said.
The Los Angeles Business Journal quoted Allissa Richardson on the importance of the Los Angeles Sentinel for L.A.'s Black community.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail quoted Christina Bellantoni in a story about how West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has handled COVID-19 messaging in his state.
The New York Times cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the percentage of men on recent year-end country music charts.
In an essay discussing the film Framing Britney Spears, Refinery29 cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the percentage of film critics who are white men.
ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV featured Roberto Suro on the value of California's cultural diversity. "It's our people that have made California from the start, and it's our people that will make California in the future," he said.
CNN quoted Dan Schnur on the efforts to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. If the recall qualifies, Newsom "will be in the voters' crosshairs," Schnur said.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Dan Schnur on the potential recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom. “If there is a recall election, it’s going to be a referendum on how Newsom has handled the pandemic,” he said.
Christopher Smith was quoted in Yahoo Finance about Elon Musk being able to move markets with just a few words, saying Musk has been “very intentional about creating kind of an outlaw, outsider persona. And that resonates with the tech bro culture.”