america did not wake up then to the problems associated with police use of deadly force. but four years ago, the cable news media immediately descended on ferguson where we were reporting live from the streets every day and night of the unrest and barack obama became the first president of the united states to publically discuss police use of deadly force and acknowledge that abuse of that police power to kill is a problem. it took the killing of michael brown and the rioting that followed to finally get all of america to pay attention to police use of deadly force. sadly, nothing gets america s attention quite like a riot. it took the killing of michael brown and the community s reaction to it to get the attorney general of the united states for the first time in
but the protests we saw in ferguson, missouri, combined with the police reaction to those protests turned into the first rioting over police use of deadly force that occurred since the invention of cable news and the internet and social media. there was no cable news to cover the rioting in miami in 1980 after the arthur mcduffy case or many of the other cases that occurred in those days. and so the mcduffy case remained a mostly local story. america did not wake up then to the problems associated with police use of deadly force. but four years ago, the cable news media immediately descended on ferguson where we were reporting live from the streets every day and night of the unrest and barack obama became the first president of the united states to publically discuss police use of deadly
higher standard than cable news media, sarah? i don t think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back. look, the american people elected a fighter. they didn t elect somebody to sit back and do nothing. that s they knew what they were getting when they voted for donald trump and he won overwhelmingly. i m able to not respond to twitter a lot when people attack me. anyway, folks, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is scrambling for a way to get his party behind a revised health care bill by tomorrow, as a growing chorus of republicans pressure him to start negotiating with democrats. and at this 11th hour for the party, the president goes rogue. despite senator mcconnell, to his credit, repeatedly pleading with him not to. i ve been pretty candid with him and with all of you that i m not a great fan of daily tweets. i think it would be helpful to have less drama emanating from the white house. gop leadership still holdin
corrected their stories. but the initial breaking news everybody on the edge of their seats reporting on that huge supreme court decision on health care, the initial reporting was confused, also known as wrong, also known as the opposite of true. that huge high stakes reading comprehension failure live on tv was one of two big things that went wrong in the media. particularly in the cable news media, the last time our whole national health care system was on the chopping block at the united states supreme court, and the country looked to us looked to the media, looked to cable news to explain what was going on. there were two huge failures in that story. the first failure was not understanding what the ruling was and reporting it wrong for a really long time. the second failure was what the media in that story, on that case, did to this guy. most surprising to me perhaps, donald verrilli the solicitor general, did a simply
also known as the opposite of true. that huge high stakes reading comprehension failure live on tv was one of two big things that went wrong in the media. particularly in the cable news media, the last time our whole national health care system was on the chopping block at the united states supreme court, and the country looked to us, looked to the media, looked to cable news to explain what was going on. there were two huge failures in that story. the first failure was not understanding what the ruling was and reporting it wrong for a really long time. the second failure was what the media in that story, on that case, did to this guy. most surprising to me, perhaps, donald verrilli, the solicitor general, did a simply awful job of defending the law. he was nervous. he was not well spoken. the argument got off to a very bad start for the