run, yasmine! run like the wind! ental music) - do you feel that there is not enough representation? because after the last incident, i had children bussed in. - when i think about the history of black television, i think about when black folks watch, we watch to zero in on us. - instead of making us celebrate your holidays, why don t you celebrate some of ours? what about tupac s birthday? - and when you have so little, it means everything. all of those shows, they all matter so much. - it feels like there s been more of an ebb and flow and an evolution. - it is so important for us to have true authenticity. - why we always the only black people here? - that s why representation matters, black stories told by black people. - i m trying to tell you something. - [man] we set the pace for sit comedy. - you hear that, elizabeth? i m coming to join ya, honey? - from sanford and son to the other black shows. - what is this? - loved the jeffersons. - monogrammed shirt, brand new
Tough news week. We are obviously going to be talking a lot about what happened last night and all the events that happened this week leading up to it. I dont know about you, gasia, but i was up watching the news. I couldnt turn away because it was unfolding before our eyes. We will get into it with the latest developments from dallas. This morning we are learning more about the sniper who ambushed Dallas Police officers. The latest development in this mornings top story. Authorities have identified the shooter as 25yearold micah xavier johnson. He was from mesquite, texas. The Dallas Morning News reports he had no criminal record. Investigators say he was bent last night on killing Police Officers. And police are trying to figure out how many people are involved in this carefully planned attack. We want to bring in ktvus alex savidge who has been following this story all morning. Alex. Good morning to you size. That is the situation here. Its still a fluid investigation. Police still
Tools that became news platforms. This story is about more than what is happening in one small town in the Mississippi Valley in the heat of the night that has tempers and twitter boiling over. It goes right to the core of racial conflict and social divisions in america and the way that those issues are reported. Our starting point this week is ferguson, missouri. Its no longer a 24 hour news cycle. Its a 24 second news cycle. A technological eyewitness to history. From the moment the first couple of tweets hit and once you reach that first 25,000, it quickly turns into four million or whatever, the next thing you know, those people are spreading it to their networks. You dont need a mainstream platform to access a significant chunk of the population. Its word of mouth writ large. Or tweeted large. To understand what drove the coverage of the ferguson story during its early stages, it helps to understand this according to data from the washingtonbased pew research project, 40 of Africa
More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, remarkably well equipped. The sight of Small Town Police looking like an army have peas wondering why do cops need armored military vehicles . There was the way the Police Conducted themselves, arresting peaceful protesters, politicians among them, imposing curfews, hand cuffing judgists and tear gassing news crews in a Security Response that resemble something out of a war zone. In the age of social media, datelines become hash tags. Any stories that journalists struggle to file from ferguson ju
More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, remarkably well equipped. The sight of Small Town Police looking like an army have peas wondering why do cops need armored military vehicles . There was the way the Police Conducted themselves, arresting peaceful protesters, politicians among them, imposing curfews, hand cuffing judgists and tear gassing news crews in a Security Response that resemble something out of a war zone. In the age of social media, datelines become hash tags. Any stories that journalists struggle to file from ferguson ju