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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Gun control legislation appears doomed once again, even as Congress heard heartbreaking testimony from parents of the children killed in Uvalde. On the latest episode of On the Media, why some activists and journalists now advocate for publishing the gruesome photos of victims. Plus, how one family grappled with the brutal video of their loved one's death in prison.

1. Susie Linfield, professor of journalism at New York University, on the push to share photographs of victims, and the limited political power of an image. Listen.

2. Spencer and Gail Booker, family of Marvin Booker, who was killed by police in 2010, share what their family went through, and why Marvin's death being caught on camera remains so difficult. Listen.

3. Lois Beckett [@loisbeckett], senior reporter for The Guardian, on why our coverage of gun violence tends to focus on just one kind tragedy, and how we could make it better. Listen.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You can say, mass deaths, gun violence, but these words are somewhat anodine.
0:07.2	Photographs can bring us closer to the actual experience of suffering.
0:12.6	How finally to break through the impasse of a gun control?
0:16.5	What if we all saw precisely what bullets do to the body of a child?
0:21.5	I don't consider them graphic images.
0:24.0	I consider them as images of the person they love so deeply.
0:29.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:31.5	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:33.0	Also on the show, why one family gladly bears the pain caused by the widespread dissemination
0:39.2	and repeated viewings of their loved ones murder.
0:42.6	And what we still get wrong about covering gun violence.
0:46.4	We continue to have the same conversation over and over trying to prevent 1% of people
0:51.6	from dying and not caring about the other 99%.
0:55.4	It's all coming out apt to this.
1:02.4	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:06.4	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:08.4	This week, politicians sat and listened to the parents of Uvalde, Texas.
1:13.4	To say the testimony was heartbreaking, doesn't really cover it.
1:17.4	On the morning of May 24, 2022, I dropped Lexi and Julian off at school.
1:22.4	Kimberly Rubio.
1:24.4	Lexi received the Good Citizen Award and was also recognized for receiving all A's.
1:28.4	To celebrate, we promised to get her ice cream that he beat.
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