
How Black Lives Matter Changed the News
The View from Somewhere
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The Police Shootings Happen All the Time
Wesley lowery was a congressional reporter for the washington post, relatively new at the time. The story of michael brown being shot on that saturday was not necessarily a national news story. But when hundreds and thousands of people are in the streets, when a gas station gets burned down, suddenly it is a national news Story. Netta elsie's friend, stephan, had died with almost no media attention. She'd been tweeding everything and getting in fights with the media about bad coverage.
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