Dissecting the Media After Michael Brown

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🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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From Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown, how media coverage unspools. Also, the #ISISmediablackout after James Foley's murder, and how the music of reality TV manipulates viewers. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	People saying, I've seen the video, don't watch it, or people saying, don't retweet this, don't promote it, that's what the Islamic State wants.
0:09.8	An unusual reaction among journalists after the gruesome death, one of their own.
0:14.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:18.5	And when the dust clears and the big-time media leave
0:22.4	Ferguson, KMOV TV will still be there. We're the St. Louis local media. We're the ones who deal
0:30.2	with the ramifications of what's going on before Michael Brown's tragic shooting death and after.
0:35.8	Plus, when reality gets too much, how about some fake reality?
0:40.4	I can't control my eyebrow.
0:42.4	I cannot control my eyebrow.
0:44.0	I can't control what's on my face 24-7.
0:46.9	The world of reality TV music and much more coming up.
1:20.0	Music. coming up. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:21.9	Bob Garfield is away this week.
1:23.3	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:25.2	Don't shoot!
1:31.0	13 days after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer,
1:35.1	the violence and unrest in the streets appear to have subsided.
1:42.2	Obviously, the killing of unarmed black people by mostly white police, or just trigger-happy white people,
1:44.4	has gone on for a long, long time.
1:51.6	Long before the death of Michael Brown in Missouri two weeks ago or of Trayvon Martin in Florida two years ago.
1:55.7	It's just that now the media are paying more attention.
1:59.4	As MSNBC's Tremaine Lee told us last week,
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