Plus, how journalists should cover the ongoing siege on democracy. On this week's On the Media, how we've become mired in patterns and lost sight of the potential solutions.
In the wake of yet another racist mass shooting, this time in Buffalo, New York, media outlets are churning out heartbreakingly familiar stories, with the same tropes and the same helplessness. This is a segment from our September 6th, 2019 program, Pressure Drop. She explained to me when I spoke to her 3 years ago, how better coverage would mean focusing on the root causes of gun violence. She says that mainstream coverage of the issue is flawed because it's focused mainly on one type of tragedy. She covered gun violence for many years, now gun policy. If journalism is supposed to be a positive force in society - and we know it can be - this is doing no good." Lois Beckett is a senior reporter for The Guardian. It's difficult, gut-wrenching work for journalists on the scene. We describe the horror of what happened, we profile the shooter, we tell about the victims' lives, we get reaction from public officials. At the time, Washington Post columnist Margaret Sullivan wrote, "When a mass shooting happens, even when it happens twice in a 24-hour period - even when the death tolls soars into the dozens - we reflexively spring into action. August of 2019 saw another moment where 2 shooting rampages occurred within days of each other one in El Paso, Texas and the next in Dayton, Ohio. This time in Texas at an elementary school. We didn't gather new tape because.honestly? We've said it all before. We combed our archives for all those people we'd spoken to in the past about the tropes and mistakes that litter the coverage of these abominations. Last week's show was titled "Again and Again" and it led with an essay about the then latest devastating mass shooting, in Buffalo. Music: Sleep Talking by Ornette ColemanSonata for Violin and Guitar (Mauro Giuliani) by Itzhak Perlman and John WilliamsSuperstition (Stevie Wonder) by Jung SunghaI Got A Right To Sing the Blues by Billy KyleJohn's Book of Alleged Dances by The Kronos QuartetĪgain and Again and Again and Again (and Again) Jon Cohen writer at Science, on why we shouldn't compare the recent monkeypox outbreak to Covid. RUST VIDEO GAME PAINTINGS HOW TO
Fiona Lowenstein journalist and founder of Body Politic, on how to write about Long Covid. David Robertson, doctoral candidate at Princeton University, on what the press got wrong when covering herd immunity. Katherine Wu staff writer for The Atlantic, on building immunity three years into the pandemic.
Plus, why we should take the recent monkeypox outbreak seriously, but avoid panicking.1. As we trudge through our third year of the pandemic, what is the state of our immunity to COVID? On this week's On the Media, hear how vaccines and reinfections interact with fast-evolving variants.
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