"Language serves as the graspable and digestible framework through which we understand the world. Those whose profession works most intimately with the bridges between world and language must keep this in mind. For journalists, this bridge is one that is built daily. The public consumes news seemingly through every venue possible, at all times, and this immediacy and proximity to ‘news’ might well be the defining feature of our era. Journalists aren’t responsible for all readers or for how they all read something, yet they are - or at least, should be - responsible for their own accuracy."

The following product is a brief analysis of journalist coverage surrounding White Nationalist and Nazi sympathizer Richard Spencer's speech at Auburn University. The author received funding through the Blackburn Institute's Summer Mentorship Experience, under the guidance of Blackburn Fellow and SPLC Staff Writer Will Tucker.