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The Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi; and a Look at White Empathy

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Is There a Future in Media Everage?

i feel like our story telling in journalism are like m unication of stories about places like africa or latin america or the middle east, sort of diminishes people's humanity is by not affording them full agency. And i think that that happens through the actual language that we use, like the actual craft of putting our sentences together. So tats the difference between, like saying, went off, there was a bombing,. There was a test terrorist attack, instead of two people detonated a bomb - you know, like that. That sort of more a active role, which i think gives people motives, an agency. And like, already you're more interested.

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