On NPR, Socolow cautions against comparing 2024 and 1986 DNC
During an interview with NPR, Michael Socolow, a media historian and professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, warned against drawing parallels between the events of 1968 and this year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He stressed the risk of misapplying historical comparisons and highlighted the vast technological and societal differences between these time periods, including the absence of unique communication dynamics of the present.