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Others holding signs, demanding justice for walter scott. one of the things i noticed after ferguson, in the midst of the ferguson coverage, people came to believe what happened in ferguson was because of the medias presence there. i think youll see tonight a very different reaction because its a very different place with a different set of dynamics. tremendously, tremendously fraught tense dynamics of ferguson which existed in ferguson long before any camera showed up, and existed after cameras...

One of the things i noticed after ferguson, in the midst of the ferguson coverage, people came to believe what happened in ferguson was because of the medias presence there. this is a very different place with a different set of dynamics. tremendously, tremendously fraught tense dynamics of ferguson, long before any camera showed up, and existed after cameras pack up and go home. there are commonalities. charleston is a place barack obama won 70% of the vote. and the mayoral election turnout hov...

Penalty phase of this trial. >> the -- essentially the defense proceeding in the way they proceeded by not contesting the basic facts in the trial phase, is to hope to essentially build up credibility, and i think achieve some kind of catharsis so they have a better chance in the penalty phase. and obviously, you cant speak for the jury, but it did feel today there was a sense in boston from the coverage i read and the people i saw online talking about this, some sense of anguish, but some emoti...

Just kind of making sure that he was okay. >> yeah. >> but heres a guy that cuts hair at a barbershop, ten minutes away. this is the path that he takes to work. >> a dominican immigrant, works in north charleston, and just happened upon this. was just motivated by essentially pure conscience to do this. >> and again, you hit on this in the beginning, you have to wonder, had the coverage -- initial coverage not been what it was, or had the police report not been what it was, would we have ever se...

Minutes away. this is the path that he takes to work. >> a dominican immigrant, works in north charleston, and just happened upon this. was just motivated by essentially pure conscience to do this. >> and again, you hit on this in the beginning, you have to wonder, had the coverage -- initial coverage not been what it was, or had the police report not been what it was, would we have ever seen that video. >> he seems quite certain that had the video not surfaced, none of the charges that weve see...

They proceeded by not contesting the basic facts in the trial phase, is to hope to essentially build up credibility, and i think achieve some kind of catharsis so they have a better chance in the penalty phase. and obviously, you cant speak for the jury, but it did feel today there was a sense in boston from the coverage i read and the people i saw online talking about this, some sense of anguish, but some emotional catharsis associated with this verdict. >> catharsis is an interesting and very ...

Happen. >> here is a problem, too. if you have 234i experience in journalism at all, when you think something is obvious and i think you have everything nailed down in a developing situation, nine out of ten times, there is something you dont yet now that youre going to be wrong about. things were not couched enough in the ferguson coverage. you were right when you said the police arent telling their side of the story. isnt it the medias responsibility to point out and speak on what have of thos...

Thetory this week about sharon hellman with the board upholding her firing because they took some gifts, some pretty outrageous gifts. but i was so happy to see any coverage howie what happens with the va is an absolute outrage. americans everywhere should be outraged. we tell people would go in the military, we have all these bias things we say to them and we dont give them coverage. worse, the administrators are crooks. they dont do their jobs. >> this happened over and over and over again. th...

This. i agree with fred, at the end, it went crazy. snyderman, thats one of the reason people hate the press. the press doesnt think they have to follow quarantines and things like that. i think when you look back its easy to say overkill, but essentially it started out doing its job correctly. >> i still think it got out of control. >> >>. >> you believe there was some benefit? >> i agree with my colleagues. they touched on the idea that there was so much media coverage made the government do a...

Didnt have time to cover these other stories. >> i hope we get some answers on this missing plane soon and it doesnt turn into another one of these 24-hour day speculation fefts. let me move on to ebola. was the punditry out of control? >> in my view it was not. in my view, it was the only thing wrong with the coverage both television and print was that every story should have started with and ended with you cannot get ebola unless its transferred through body fluids. >> the deafening volume of ...