Lee Wang Yang News Today

Tools that became news platforms. This story is about more than what is happening in one small town in the Mississippi Valley in the heat of the night that has tempers and twitter boiling over. It goes right to the core of racial conflict and social divisions in america and the way that those issues are reported. Our starting point this week is ferguson, missouri. Its no longer a 24 hour news cycle. Its a 24 second news cycle. A technological eyewitness to history. From the moment the first coup...

More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, r...

More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, r...