April 18, 2021: How to break the cycle of gun violence coverage; CNN reporters share first-hand stories about covering unrest in Minnesota
Reliable Sources
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🗓️ 18 April 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Salter, live in New York, and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine |
| 0:08.2 | the story behind the story, and figure out what is reliable. |
| 0:13.0 | This hour, as the eyes of the world fixate on Minnesota, and a week of unrest there, |
| 0:17.8 | CNN's Sarah Seidner and Miguel Marquez will be here to share what it's been like to |
| 0:22.2 | be caught in the middle. |
| 0:23.9 | Plus, the emerging red news, blue news divide about COVID vaccines and how the media |
| 0:29.9 | must, must be a bridge. |
| 0:33.1 | And later, speaking of divides, my interview with a former Prime Minister of Australia |
| 0:37.4 | who says these men, the Murdoch's, have created a quote-unquote, market for crazy. |
| 0:43.8 | Here Malcolm Turnbull's unique perspective coming up. |
| 0:46.5 | But first, one of the most common types of breaking news in America, another mass shooting, |
| 0:52.8 | actually two of them, overnight. |
| 0:55.2 | In Kenosha, Wisconsin, overnight, three dead, two injured at a confrontation at a bar, |
| 0:59.8 | and in Columbus, Ohio, one dead, five others wounded, and a vigil for the victim of a |
| 1:04.5 | previous shooting. |
| 1:07.4 | Rather than feeling numb to this, let's break the cycle. |
| 1:10.3 | Try to imagine the pain, the hot lead of a bullet, tearing through tissue, shattering |
| 1:16.2 | bones, cutting through blood vessels, pulverizing organs. |
| 1:21.4 | It is heinous devastation to human bodies, all too common in America. |
| 1:26.7 | Some somehow accept it as normal, unacceptable, pain and devastation. |
| 1:32.6 | So I want to ask, how can the press improve the coverage of gun violence? |
| 1:37.8 | How can we bring it home? |
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