In the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson last month there has been some soul-searching among American journalists about media coverage. Was it racist? Was it fair? Did the police get a better press than the protestors? The New York Times’s public editor, Margaret Sullivan, admonished the paper after complaints from readers about its description of Brown in a front page profile as “no angel”. She called the choice of words “a regrettable mistake” and “a blunder”.
Media Coverage Of Michael Brown Shooting Exposes Underlying Prejudice
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian, The Raw Story
Mon, 09/01/2014 - 4:04pm
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