They feigned surprise that this violence happened in Baltimore, even though Ferguson was the news story of 2014.

Coverage of this week's protests show the media learned very little from the past.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And the death of two Western hostages in a U.S. strike in Pakistan

raises more questions about the oversight of the drone program.

We never get a public accounting when it's not a Westerner who's killed.

And so it's very hard to know.

Is this really an unusual thing?

Plus, who gets to tell the stories of sex workers, the sex workers themselves, or there would be rescuers?

They use the word victim for every woman that they encounter.

And they build this entire language around it.

That suggests a more monolithic experience than is the reality.

There's more coming up. Stay with us.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

On Friday, Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that she had probable cause to file criminal charges against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.

Believed to be the result of a fatal injury that occurred while Mr. Gray was unrestrained by a seatbelt

in the custody of the Baltimore Police Department

wagon. An uneasy piece has held in Baltimore since the initial destruction and clashes between

police officers and protesters in the wake of Gray's death. And the president wasn't alone in

decrying the coverage for giving far more airplay to that spasm of violence than the

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