How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric
Clip: 08/04/2019 | 10m
While reporting on the white supremacist ideology behind mass shootings, are journalists inadvertently magnifying the message? Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research project at Harvard University, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss how reporters should -- and should not -- cover mass shootings.
Aired: 08/04/19
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How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric
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