This week on Bankole’s Nation, journalist Bankole Thompson provides an analysis of what seems to be a calculated effort by the media to undermine the mayoral campaign of Solomon Kinloch, the senior pastor of Triumph Church, whois running against Mary Sheffield, the president of the Detroit City Council.

 Thompson, who has had a front-row seat to Detroit’s issues for a long time and is an authority on the media, discusses how the media as an institution is failing to provide balanced coverage of the mayor’s race and seems to be acting as a shadow campaign manager for the Sheffield campaign.

 He discusses how the media in Detroit mostly looked the other way regarding the scandals of outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan, the first White mayor in 40 years.

 In the analysis, Thompson, who has authored five books and is one of the first Black editors in the nation to conduct several exclusive sit-down interviews with President Barack Obama, states that the media coverage of the political race seems to be an attempt to delegitimize one Black candidate over the other. He calls for fair coverage where both candidates are held accountable and scrutinized equally based on their policies.