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How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric

How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric

08/04/2019

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How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric

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How media coverage contributes to white supremacist rhetoric

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.

08/04/2019

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