Amy Goodman
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How the democratization of media is fueling a "crisis of legitimacy" for police
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June 10, 2020
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3:14Now PlayingThe mass uprising against police violence following the killing of George Floyd is forcing many in the news media to reconsider their own role in systemic racism and whether to continue blindly trusting police sources. Harvard professor and historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad says part of the reason for this shift is the democratization of media, with bystander video challenging and often contradicting the police version of events. "News agencies around the country, no matter who is in charge — a Black person or white person or Latino or Asian American — have been deferential over the past to official accounts," says Muhammad. "The crisis of legitimacy for police agencies has led many of those news directors, no matter who they are, to begin to think like we can't trust the official record."
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