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How Black Lives Matter Changed the News

The View from Somewhere

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We're Not Going to Write About It the Same Way

With ferguson, and this came up again and again, it mattered who was telling the story. I think that our lived experiences can either illuminate other people's, or they can be blinders. Wesley lowery was close to the story, and he says that was a good thing. And so our own proximity is in large part what determines how we prioritize what stories we tell and what stories we don't tell.

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