in a way they hadn t before. and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man, that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think, during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news reside in asking, who owns these dogs and why do the same people keep getting bitten and what can we do to control these dogs? but actually black people had been living with this for decades and it wasn t news because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? absolutely a failure ofjournalism. and in a certain moment, for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news, and you wouldn t
and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man, that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think, during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news resides in asking, who owns these dogs and why do the same people keep getting bitten and what can we do to control these dogs? but actually black people had been living with this for decades and it wasn t news, because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? absolutely a failure of journalism. and in a certain moment, for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news, and you wouldn t have to be black to get this, but if you are black, not typically, not to look at your son, who was big
it was that, for whatever reason, partly it s new technology and who can take pictures and distribute and amplify, people were paying attention in a way they hadn t before. and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news resides in asking who owns these dogs? and why do the same people keep getting bitten, and what can we do to control these dogs? that actually, black people had been living with this for decades, and it wasn t news because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? i think it was absolutely a failure of news journalism. and for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news.
thing that happened with black lives matter in particular, which was that it wasn t and it hasn t been that more black people were being killed by the police. it was that, for whatever reason, partly it s new technology and who can take pictures and distribute and amplify, people were paying attention in a way they hadn t before. and it problematised an adage that i learned atjournalism school, which was, when a dog bites a man, that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think, during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news reside in asking, who owns these dogs and why do the same people keep getting bitten and what can we do to control these dogs? but actually black people had been living with this for decades and it wasn t news because the people who decide
a man that s not a story, but when a man bites a dog that is a story. and i started to think during that time, you know, sometimes, actually, news asks who owns these dogs? and why do the same people keep getting bitten, and what can we do to control these dogs? that actually, black people had been living with this for decades, and it wasn t news because the people who decide what s news decided that it wasn t newsworthy. that was a failure ofjournalism? i think it was absolutely a failure of news journalism. and for reasons, i m not entirely sure why, it became news. and you don t have to be black to get this, but if you are black, not to your son who was big for his age.