Eric Deggans is NPR’s first full-time TV critic and a media analyst-contributor for MSNBC and NBC News. A journalist for over 20 years, he has written for the St. Petersburg Times and Asbury Park Press, and is the author of “Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.” He is a contributor to “The New Ethics of Journalism.” Deggans received the Florida Press Club’s first-ever Diversity award, the Legacy award from the National Association of Black Journalists’ A&E Task Force and the Excellence in the Reporting of Social Justice Issues Award from the American Sociological Association. He currently serves as a chair of the Media Monitoring Committee for the National Association of Black Journalists.