Buffalo Massacre Raises Questions About Media Environment That Exploits White Fear
Reliable Sources
CNN
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Wesley Lowery, Mara Schiavocampo, and Oliver Darcy discuss the media climate and possible connections to white supremacist violence. Plus, Ambassador Asaf Zamir, the Consul General of Israel in New York, addresses the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Holly Otterbein and Will Bunch discuss why some Republican candidates are shutting out the media; and Caroline Kitchener, who covers the politics of abortion for The Washington Post, discusses her reporting trip to Texas and best practices for journalists covering the abortion debate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Stelter live in New York and this is Reliable Sources, where we examine |
| 0:07.3 | the story behind the story and we figure out what's reliable. |
| 0:11.2 | This hour, a veteran correspondent fatally shot on assignment and Israel accused of murder |
| 0:16.7 | and Israeli official will be here live with a response. |
| 0:20.2 | Plus, while the national media focuses on the Supreme Court, what are we missing about |
| 0:23.9 | abortion laws at the state level? |
| 0:26.0 | The top reporter will join his live from Texas. |
| 0:28.6 | Plus, my road trip to Pennsylvania this weekend, witnessing a GOP campaign's ban against |
| 0:33.8 | the media up close. |
| 0:35.1 | It's this the ugly, new, normal, and Republican politics. |
| 0:37.8 | We're going to get into that in a whole lot more coming up. |
| 0:40.6 | But first, another hate crime at a grocery store. |
| 0:46.0 | Those words shouldn't even compute. |
| 0:47.4 | They shouldn't fit in the same sentence. |
| 0:49.4 | A hate crime at a grocery store. |
| 0:52.9 | This time it was Buffalo residents in a predominantly black neighborhood who were just trying |
| 0:56.9 | to take care of their families. |
| 0:58.4 | And a white gunman opened fire on Saturday killing 10 people and injuring three others. |
| 1:02.8 | All the evidence so far suggests that this young man, this suspect, just 18 years old, |
| 1:09.4 | was poisoned by lies and BS from online message boards. |
| 1:13.4 | Now police, members of the media are going through his so-called manifesto, full of hateful |
| 1:18.0 | memes and ideas, and some of the same messages shared by the Christ Church Mosque killer. |
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