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This week on CounterSpin: Media present the debate over police violence in black communities as almost hopelessly fraught, as it’s tied up with the country’s history of white supremacy and racial division. That can’t explain the unwillingness to address another increasingly undeniable reality: the frequency with which law enforcement use of force involves people with disabilities, and the particular factors at work in those interactions. The disability community is routinely marginalized in the media; in this case, the absence makes life-saving responses harder to get at. We’ll talk about police use of force and disability with journalist and professor David Perry.
Transcript: ‘We Have to Have Disability as Part of Our Discussion’
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Also on the show: Talking about fighting climate change, now, is fairly easy. Officials meet every few years to declare themselves seriously engaged with the problem. What happens afterward is a different, much messier story wherein the latest chapter seems to be the claim that renewable energy gets in the way of fighting climate change, while nuclear power is a valuable tool. Activist and journalist Harvey Wasserman will join us to sort that one out.
Transcript: ‘The Real Battle Is, Who’s Going to Own the Energy Supply?’
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First, as usual, we take a look back at the week’s press, including Hillary Clinton’s nomination, the DNC email leak and Roger Ailes’ resignation.
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SOURCE LINKS:
- “Media Missing the Story: Half of All Recent High-Profile Police-Related Killings Are People With Disabilities,” by Justin Ellis (Ruderman Family Foundation, 3/8/16)
- Police Violence and People With Disabilities
- “NY Times Pushes Nukes, Claiming Renewables Fail Climate Change,” by Harvey Wasserman (EcoWatch, 7/24/16)
- Solartopia!
How I long for news reports with the integrity of Janine Jackson on CounterSpin. This is where good journalism finds a voice, but I do not see nor hear this same integrity on the networks, or even on PBS/NPR. Such is the shameful state of journalism in the country.
I support Fair, Censored, Newsbud, Truthout, MintPress, and others, but this is not enough to tear people away from the lies and half-truths spilled out every day by people paid six figures and more to do these despicable deeds.
It is hard to find hope, but I must. I must hope and protest. To give up is to acquiesce to a behavior to which I cannot say amen.
Just an Amen from over here, James. With an additional word of praise for the indispensable Democracy Now, which I’m sure you also know.
Yes, Democracy Now is good, but I don’t have cable so I do not see them on a regular basis.
Democracy Now! is also online at democracynow.org in video or audio. Hope this helps.
I was wondering if you ever considered changing the layout of
your blog? Its very well written; I love what youve got to say.
But maybe you could a little more in the way of content so people could connect
with it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or 2 pictures.
Maybe you could space it out better?