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said let's just jump into it and the first thing we're going to talk about today is a story around

news and more importantly how it's covered and specifically i'm talking about this news coming out of

northwestern that it's been really interesting to watch everything develop. So this all started last week when Jeff Sessions, Trump's former Attorney General, spoke on their campus. Right, that's something notable on campus of the school's student paper, the Daily Northwestern, sent reporters to cover his speech as well as students who were protesting it. And according to reports, protesters were pushing through the back of the building. Police tried to stop them from entering, but ultimately failed. And these series of events were documented by one of the reporters, Colin Boyle, who was a photographer for the Daily.

And following this, some of the activists protesting disagreed with the Daily's coverage of events.

Some particularly upset about the photography. Boyle tweeted some of the photos that he captured

from the protest and some students found this to be inappropriate. With one tweeting,

Colin, please can we stop this trauma porn?

I was on the ground being shoved and pushed hard by the police.

You don't have to intervene, but you also didn't have to put a camera in front of me top down.

As a fellow photographer, I know how this works and 20 other ways to document this.

Right, and so after facing this kind of backlash from protesters,

what we ended up seeing is that on Sunday, the daily posted an editorial apologizing for their coverage. With some of that reading, we recognize that we contributed to the harm students'

experience, and we wanted to apologize for and address the mistakes that we made that night,

along with how we planned to move forward. One area of our reporting that harmed many

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