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On the Media

Again and Again

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the wake of yet another racist mass shooting, this time in Buffalo, New York, media outlets are churning out heartbreakingly familiar stories, with the same tropes and the same helplessness. On this week's On the Media, how we've become mired in patterns and lost sight of the potential solutions. Plus, how journalists should cover the ongoing siege on democracy. Then, a deep dive into the forgotten legacy of one of America's most influential writers.

1. Brooke Gladstone [@OTMBrooke], OTM host, on the tropes that choke coverage of every mass shooting, and why we should focus on consequences and the 'rot at the root.' Listen.

2. Jay Rosen [@jayrosen_nyu], professor of journalism at New York University and media critic for PressThink, on why journalists should still be in "emergency mode." Listen.

3. Paul Auster, acclaimed novelist and author of Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane, on the 19th century writer's forgotten legacy. Listen.

Music:

White Man Sleeps by The Kronos QuartetFergus River Roundelay by Gerry O’BeirneMiddlesex Times by Michael AndrewsA Ride with Polly Jean by Jenny ScheinmanCellar Door by Michael Andrews

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are we destined to just keep doing this city after city?

0:05.0

Have we just resigned that this is what we are going to be?

0:08.0

Another mass shooting and why reporters and all of us feel like hamsters on a treadmill

0:14.0

from WNYC in New York, this is on the media, I'm Brooke Gladstone.

0:18.0

Also, with election season now underway, should journalists at long last change tactics?

0:26.0

You know, you can always ask, well who's the winners and the losers?

0:29.0

Who's ahead? What's the strategy?

0:32.0

That's a very portable lens on politics.

0:36.0

And you can keep looking at the world through it, right up to the point where democracy disintegrates.

0:42.0

Plus, how one young author forever changed the way we told stories and then faded away.

0:49.0

He was a comment who flashed across the sky and then he disappeared.

0:54.0

It's all coming up after this.

1:01.0

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:04.0

I'm Brooke Gladstone. This past weekend, we once again witnessed murder and mayhem.

1:11.0

You know the story as well as we do.

1:14.0

Taking you now to Buffalo, New York, where police officials are discussing a mass shooting that happened in a supermarket.

1:21.0

CBS News has confirmed at least 10 people are dead, more are injured.

1:26.0

Witnesses say a man armed with a rifle entered that market and opened fire.

1:30.0

Among the lives tragically lost, 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield visiting her husband at a nursing home.

1:38.0

77-year-old Pearl Young described by her loved ones as a woman of faith and a pillar of the community.

1:45.0

And top security guard, Aaron Salter, a 30-year-old veteran of the Buffalo Police Force who tried to stop the gunman.

1:53.0

Potentially saving even more lives. Then there was Hayward Patterson, a local driver and church deacon,

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