Tomorrow, Tuesday January 24th 2017, from 7-8:30pm, at the Virginia Historical Society (428 North Boulevard, Richmond VA), the Richmond Times-Dispatch is holding a forum featuring RTD politics editor Andrew Cain, columnist Jeff Schapiro, reporters Graham Moomaw and Michael Marts, commentary editor Bob Rayner, and editorical columnist Bart Hinkle. They will discuss the upcoming 2017 Virginia gubernatorial race, the General Assembly session, and the effect of Trump's election on Virginia.
Tickets are $20, and can be purchased at the door. Free parking.
The RTD is a solidly conservative paper at the best of times; though they didn't endorse Trump this election cycle, their resulting endorsement of Gary Johnson broke a thirty-some year streak of endorsing Republican candidates, and their lack of endorsement of Trump hasn't them any less hostile to anti-Trump protesters (here's an article they published solely dedicated to investigating whether 12 arrested anti-Trump protesters had voted in the election). Their 68th Public Square discussion starred their columnist Mark Holmburg's proposal for what he called the "Act Right Movement," which can be summed up as 'teach Black people to act right so that police won't be forced to murder them all the time' (I'm not kidding). I don't think you'll get much useful analysis out of attending this event; rather, I think it can be useful to understand the political perspective of local media outlets, and to know what their writers keeping an eye on.
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