The protests — the political and the personal
The Conversation with Dasha Burns
POLITICO
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to tell you what's going on. |
| 0:05.0 | Basically, these media people are out here. |
| 0:07.0 | Not all of you guys, but most of you guys are out here |
| 0:11.0 | exploiting the black people. |
| 0:14.0 | You're recording us when we're getting tear gas, |
| 0:16.7 | when we're running, when we're yelling, |
| 0:18.9 | when we're pissed off, and we're cursing. |
| 0:20.6 | But you are not recording the people who are protesting peacefully. |
| 0:24.0 | You're not recording the motivating chance we yell to the cops. |
| 0:27.0 | You know, covering politics there's so much bullshit, you know, especially covering campaigns. |
| 0:31.0 | And, you know, you can sort of lose and forget like why you got into this |
| 0:34.5 | business in the first place. |
| 0:37.7 | I don't always feel like this but this is one of those stories where you actually feel like you have a heightened responsibility to get it right. To me what we're experiencing right now is as journalists and |
| 0:58.3 | covering this sort of what is being contested by the states and by frankly propagandists you have this |
| 1:06.6 | incredible responsibility to get it right. All the time of the time of a global pandemic, we're also nearing two weeks of intensifying national |
| 1:37.4 | protests about the death of George Floyd. |
| 1:41.2 | There's a national debate about protests, about policing, about racism, and about |
| 1:46.0 | whether the systems we have in place are up to the challenge of the moment we're in. |
| 1:50.7 | Black Lives Matter. It's literally my job and the job of all journalists to get it |
| 1:58.6 | right. I feel it more than you know almost any story I've covered in a |
| 2:01.9 | really long time to get it right. |
| 2:04.0 | That's why I've got Chief Washington correspondent Ryan Liz are joining me. |
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