Views of the News: Did the Media Help or Hurt America This Week?

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President Obama told mourners at the memorial service for five slain Dallas police officers that “we are not as divided as we seem,” following a week of police-involved shootings. How did the presence of video from two police-involved shootings move the dialogue forward? What caused conservative media to take notice of incidents of police brutality against people of color? And, did the media help the situation or hurt it? 

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Nathan Lawrence is an editor, documentary filmmaker and data journalist.