What we see is that a lot of incidents, especially as they involve crime or the police, much less police action, all of the coverage happens at the very beginning of the story,

when almost none of the full information is available and very little is ever done at the end

of a story when in fact you can start making kind of analytical statements

and figure out what was really the root of this or what it's really discouraging and

beyond that we're also seeing and part of this is because of the decimation of our

local media,

a lot of these incidents aren't even being written about at the front end,

and that really scares me.

What's up everybody? I'm Clint Smith and I'm Josie Duffy Rice and this is

Justice in America. Each show we discuss a topic in the American criminal

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We open the show with a clip from our guests, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist

Wesley Lowry. Wesley is a national correspondent with the Washington Post,

author of the book They Can't Kill us All, and a dear friend of ours. Over the past few years

Wesley has been a leading voice covering policing and police brutality. He's going to join us to talk about our topic today,

which is the media's coverage of criminal justice issues.

So we're very grateful for all of you that have listened this far, and we hope that we're bringing some new perspective but even if we have

managed to do that we're playing some tough odds here after all you spend about an

hour of your week listening to us and the other hundreds of hours of your week you spend doing other things and we'd be willing to bet at some point during your week you're exposed to other news or information about the criminal justice system.

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