Black social media has often taken the lead in raising public consciousness when mainstream outlets overlook the death or disappearance of Black women.
As a scholar who researches media coverage of police and protests, I believe Toledo’s death exposes a blind spot in journalism: a tendency to go with the “police said” narrative without outwardly questioning if it is right.
Anti-racism protest stories about police brutality or the removal of Confederate statues were more often portrayed negatively, framed with an emphasis on the violence and destructiveness of protests, and relied more on officials than protesters as sources.
“News audiences aren’t necessarily used to seeing violence and disruption at citizen demonstrations in support of a president — and certainly not on the scale we witnessed on Wednesday at the Capitol.”
“None of us could have predicted the impact of police body cams as conflicting narratives that continue to compete for the accurate portrayal of what happened.”
“People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren’t looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking at cops, attacking people.”
The editor of The New York Times opinion section, James Bennet, and the top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Stan Wischnowski, faced crises in their newsrooms over an op-ed and an offensive headline, respectively, last week.
Scire, Sarah. "After newsroom protests, The New York Times opinion page editor and the top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer have resigned." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 8 Jun. 2020. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
Scire, S. (2020, Jun. 8). After newsroom protests, The New York Times opinion page editor and the top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer have resigned. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/after-newsroom-protests-the-new-york-times-opinion-page-editor-and-the-top-editor-at-the-philadelphia-inquirer-have-resigned/
Chicago
Scire, Sarah. "After newsroom protests, The New York Times opinion page editor and the top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer have resigned." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 8, 2020. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/after-newsroom-protests-the-new-york-times-opinion-page-editor-and-the-top-editor-at-the-philadelphia-inquirer-have-resigned/.
Wikipedia
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