Episode 06: The Media's Default Setting of White Supremacy

Citations Needed

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 06 we explore how the media both consciously and subconsciously works to smear black victims, protect the police, and works overtime to ameliorate the sensibilities of white media consumers with our guest Dr. Jared A. Ball.

The white supremacist regime at work in the media can be broken down into three main narrative devices: 1) The use of language to downplay state violence and assert false parity 2) The uncritical dissemination of exaggerated or made up threats to police to turn the aggressor into the victim 3) The posthumous smearing of black victims to rationalize their killing after the fact.

In this episode we examine the mechanisms of these narrative devices, how they influence public perception, and why they create the media environment that makes more Mike Browns all but certain.

Show notes: https://medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/episode-06-the-medias-default-setting-of-white-supremacy-ff138e201978

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0:00.0	This is Citations Needed with Nemeshirazi and Adam Johnson.
0:08.8	Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast where we discuss media, myths, PR, and history of
0:15.4	bullshit.
0:16.4	I am Nemeshirazi.
0:17.4	I'm Adam Johnson and thanks again for joining us.
0:21.6	This is episode 6.
0:24.2	6 in, I believe?
0:26.0	Yeah, it's 6.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	Alright, sweet.
0:29.0	And tackling, I think, a lot of different sort of media tropes.
0:32.3	We've done some foreign policy stuff already, North Korea, Iran.
0:36.2	We've done a bunch of more local, domestic, from charter schools to myths around gang
0:41.9	raids and stuff.
0:43.4	And so we're going to keep this one domestic again.
0:45.9	Yeah, so this is a topic that is dear to my heart.
0:49.7	When I first started doing media criticism, I wrote a lot about this.
0:52.6	This is how the media covers police shootings, specifically how it covers quote unquote
0:57.5	crime stories and how it relates to the African-American community.
1:01.0	My job is a media critic and your job is media critics.
1:03.1	We're basically, we're truffle pigs, right?
1:05.9	We look for shit and we're pigs and we go around and we sniff out where it is and we go
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