Journal. Here is how to make your known by calling. If you live in the st. Louis you want to give your thoughts on how you saw the 2025853883. Contact us on sweurt r twitter and facebook email. D us go to the pages or website of politico and you will see this media reporter for the public indication ferguson media. The line between user reporting nd opinion is blurring as some National Journalists inject their perspective and even themselves into the story. Drew your attention to the coverage that kind of put there motion . N it was definitely last week saw reporters from the Huffington Post and post when they got arrested that limelight and he you were wondering why it took the arrest of two reports to launch this. We noticed it the thing that the situation with global or local United States situations where you have all the media parachuting in and strong. Emed so many media showing up and we heard people talking we would seeia and we ews on cnn or anted to see how is the media affecting the story and coverage. Host you talked to some who analyzed media locally. To you . They say caller it varied almost like we quite a few of rofessors at university of missouri and some of them said this is going to happen in any situation. Part of the omes story the moment they show up. Needed to be story spoke d other professors differently and said they had been inserting themselves too no longer was the media the objective observer in the swaeuituatio inserting they were themselves and showing too much of one side which was usually protesters said and police were not getting their fair because of the way police were handling the media the things media but from ferguson were so ripe for was inevitable. Host we have a little bit of took place andat ere is that which you probably saw in other media. Lets go. Videotape. Lets go. Hurry up, lets go. Dont do that to me. Not tell me not to use we are down to about 45 seconds. Go. S lets go, lets go. Move your car is not here. It is. The incidenttioned but what occurred as far as the wesleyg of lines is when lawrie got on television to talk about his experiences . Caller that was probably the start of it. He s a hard balance because would say on the interviews this snt about me but all the attention for the next day was all about the two reporters that is seems ted because to be in the United States where ou have two reporters that are arrested for seemingly very ittle reason, they seemed to say it was because they were not leaving mcdonalds. With 24hour cable news you need something new to keep this is the so something new. This seemed to escalate because arrested orters were it felt like more started to showing up to cover ferguson and made his statement can see the you k incredible rise in time cover on twitter n and in interaction that it was that everything really took off. Host from wednesday august 13 msnbc, the presence of nn and fox with minutes that were aeurpd. Minutes, day msnbc 89 nn 69 minutes and 64 or so for fox and this is cable coverage during the week. It grows from in. Thing that was constantly talked about was the police presence. Jake tapper talking about his experiences on the street of ferguson. Lets get your perspective after we show it. [video clip] now why they are doing this i dont know. Threat going is no on here, none, that merits this. Is none, ok . Absolutely there have been ooters and over the last nine days theres been violence but there is nothing going on on his street right now that merits this scene. You wrote about jake tappers experience. What did you have to say . Caller there is kind of a rare moment for jake. Seeing and what you saw hes pretty much giving an opinion. Observation of the situation but hes inserting imself into the situation by judging it in a way. He is saying he doesnt know is a rule of journalism you dont know the local it is on and in ferguson scene and ly chaotic jake is a very experienced journalist so it is one thing to would to him but some argue he went too far with the situation. As some go as far other colleagues. Don lemon interviewed the family can help in any way let me know, you know how to personally. O me that was again kind of blurring of the lanes. At this point i dont even know lines blurring of the matters any more because it seems like everywhere you turn is inserting themselves with every story. Part of alist becomes the story and some of us are back to we should go the days where we were objective like Walter Cronkite but even he stories at some point. So it will happen inevitable but in ferguson it fwas incredible storyny were covering the and our colleagues were sweden, russia, were coming down there. It attracted so many people for a Natural Disaster or anything but it was for the unarmed black teen which kind of happens a frequently than people realize in the United States but also all the civil unrest. Host hadas gold before we leave any bright spots of media you saw . That caller i think it put a lot of media. N local the st. Loust. Louis postdisp has been doing a good job. Crews have been doing an amazing job and the huffing post is actually teaming up with a a fellowshipo fund for a local newsroom to continue the ing ferguson after media leave. It e are seeing that and shows how strong local media is. Hadas tkpwaoelsd golds piece is on their website. If you want to give your thoughts on how the media told ferguson story and if you oth with her thoughts or have her thoughts you can call host lets start in cofield, north carolina. Tyrone joins us. Did you think about the coverage . Caller good morning. A t cut me off, im democrat. Msnbc has done a wonderful job coverage and cnn has done a wonderful job. News and news match did not and it up until the video and max could degrade coverer the policeman. White policeman are trained to away lack people and get with it. I worked in government 30 years nd i have seen this happen where i worked. Msnbc and cnn apart from the others . Fox news had reporters doing a good job letting the American People know going on. When the attorney general they let them know. News and news max pick and choose. Degrade want to do is black people because they have a lack president so they put obama into it. Host that is tyrone off of twitter a viewer says coverage lacking in true factual information because of the owe a i way authorities opaque way authorities allowed information to emerge. Caller from mclean, virginia. One question or story tions is this iterally exploded in a very short amount of time and from my point of view the question is is actually the media in circumstances like there. Like the situation where you have a fire and 900 Fire Companies show up to put it out you have tkpwgot citizen ournalists and mainstream journalists and local ournalists and the overkill that takes place makes it very difficult to actually sort out the actual story here. The se you cant tell journalists from any of the coming in that are and my concern is that it clogs the story, that you really cant have an easy the crux of through the matter and what is really happening. Ou are just hit with this deluge, particularly on twitter, much more s it difficult to get a true factual takingntation of what is place. Host as you followed the story what did you Pay Attention to . Cable television, online . How did you focus on it most . My particular case it was online and cable. Can be very deceiving. But online it tends to be the trade. And everybody wants a 10, 15, that they ideo clip can post so people will look at it. That really doesnt necessarily tell the story. Because you have to sit and pheupminutes worth of video to get real context as to what n between everybody involved. Next, call from michigan independent line. Cspan. Hello the problem was that thousands known le had already about exactly what happened in even on before the media got there. Then when people watched the realized they were being lied to and the truth was being distorted. That is what angered everybody and that is why everybody went raised their arms because that is what was on peoples phones. Recorded exactly how this happened. Away, he was ing shot in the back of the left arm. Raised his ound and hands was shot five more times. Forward he wasng shot in the top of the head. That was the kill shot. That is known by all Police Officers as the kill shot. Host your thoughts on what you saw and watched during that time. The thing. T is many people when that first shot stopped everybody and everybody looked to see what was happening and they filmed it. Then they tried to take everybodys phone. Missouri, ouis, aaron, democrats line. You doing . How are host fine, thanks. You are on. I just wanted to address significant heard from heard from the last person i guess they were politico and talking about the Media Coverage. Host yes. Caller i was not particularly impressed. St. Louis county and i msnbcy much had it rely on and cnn for their coverage with people there. Initially some of the local stations had people down there getting tear re gassed and they got tear gassed. But overall i think the coverage limited and i think that it speaks to the ownership this town. S in things like helicopter coverage, know. There was no helicopter coverage at night. That the ey would say reason they didnt do that was restrictions. A. A. But f. A. A. Restrictions were only up to like 3,000 feet and needed to have aerial coverage and they did but at e during the day night nothing. Ost why do you think more aerial coverage would have done as far as the telling of the story . A completewould give picture of what was happening on the ground. It was only people on the so confused s were and changing so fast i cant other major city in the United States that wouldnt have had news helicopters that stuff from the air so we could see what was going on. Was very confused. And even now they have got a lot of like msnbc of a boom upon top high to be able to see what is happening. I think locally people who praise the st. Louis there is a paper that is only a shadow of its self. Host our guest talked about inserted how they themselves. Did you see that . And did that matter to you . That is kind of a general thing now in journalism. Observe journalism pretty closely and you cant really get annoyed it but i am when i see things like Anderson Cooper fly in after the story two weeks and starts chastising people in the all makes me think it is about Anderson Cooper and his career and brand. That is pretty annoying. People, that really is why they are here. Ere is their big chance to get their big spotlight on the big story as opposed to focusing on the story. Host we have set aside a line for those in the st. Louis area if you want to give your 2025853883. Twitter says coverage in ferguson was like most media interpreted s of journalism. Ohio, ear from loretta independent line. Caller hello. Host you are own. Go ahead. Caller i heard about an incident in Salt Lake City where cop shot a white man and you hear nothing on it. I would like cspan to cover too. Host where did you hear that . Caller it was on channel 8, i believe, my local channel. And there was a person that cspan the other day when you had the call in about the same nd he told sto story. It is not publicized at all. I would like to hear more about it. It checked to have out. Giving well, our nk we are losing of speech. I wish cspan would check that some air time. Host larry from tennessee, democrats line. Hi. Hello. Host you are on. I would like ing to address is your topic is ferguson and of we get 30 to 45 minutes to or 11 ned first 10 mrs. Gold. Spent with having said that, Michael Brown couple of bad choices and we are told by the time we are to make good chance. He swings at an officer and i the argument in he has black know people in his district. It is nice to come out and brown but there are other people that need to be around this rush to ment lake lake we like we saw with the child car people gethe it wrong when they jump to clauses. Come outn time it will he defraud it on himself. Host what did you think of the ferguson . Rage in caller i thought it was all ight but im like someone else said about half of the protesters were media and it around ike jake tapper cuomo and some of them were not to instigate but trying to play ignorant like the second was shot, mr. Cuomo said he didnt see the man approaching the cop. Us did. Of how is it that the media cant the media. Host a couple other stories. Washington post has a story from the w policy Obama Administration taking a new york erage times on friday the Administration Proposed a role that with go into effect religious allowing college or other groups to inform the department of Health Services of religious objections and Contact Insurance Companies and arrange for birth coverage at no cost to the employer or employees. Previously the organizations ere required to notify Insurance Companies directly a step some organizations said complicit in m providing drugs they objected to acome days agoide for business if it met the definition of a small privately company. According to the rule such a ompany would be a small number of owners, minimum percentage of wnership concentrated or minimum percentage of ownership concentrated among a small people. Of the company couldnt be publicly traded. New hampshire, independent lane. Caller good morning. Into wednesday morning was watching fox news been coverage has absolutely awful. Megan kelly was interviewing a pastor white and the topic they were discussing as al sharpton creating and deep deepening Racial Division in the community. Pastor when they went to pastor white they sked have you experienced al sharpton inflaming racial tensions and al sharpton has settled things down. I just spoke to him about 20 i think he is doing a fantastic job, they immediately cut to breaking news update of what was happening on the ground. When they got back they never pastor white again and moved on from the topic because it didnt fit the narrative. Host if you found the coverage awful why were you watching it . To know what ed was being said on different stations. I watched cspan, washington one of my washington get all ut i want to the angles because a lot of my riends have been saying if he has Michael Brown had ssaulted an officer Darren Wilson which from what i have read on cnn and several other true. S is not but that hasnt stopped stations la like news and far right political pundits like the conservative journal from there because it fit their narrative of defending officer wilson. Host jason new york, republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. Theres been a great deal of coverage on both the networks cable. I do think that the reporters more involved t in this story than what i have seen in the past. It is hard to know right now going to not that is skew the results. What i mean is whether or not impact on the any grand jury in st. Louis. Day, as you the probably know, those people have been exposed to all of this is rage and whether that going to influence their remains to be seen. Im a little bit concerned that kind of lt of this coverage where you are interviewing witnesses and xperts and commentators and analysts and people all over the lace that there may not be an indictment at all. Host that is jason from new yo york. Twitter Edward Perkins says us to cover allows ferguson how we see it. Yellin gave a speech yesterday talking about the thoughts on it. This is covered by the Financial Times saying her challenge in first speech there was to be formidable. The remarks had to be original on the other nd are some way off and fueling the hoopla around jackson hole would only make her harder. She resolved it with a technical speech about labor markets that little directly about minute tear policy but helped monetary policy. It was more on underemployment more weight to possible structural changes in the labor market and points to the danger Rising Interest Rates too late as well as too early. The effect was highlight the uncertainty of when rates need to rise which raises they may need to go up earlier than currently expected. Barbara on the democrats line from missouri. Caller i want to tell you that years in delwood which is where that went on in ferguson. Me, the police there definitely harassed young daily basis. N a that was the way they kept them in check. What i want to say about the i watched it is all around and what it showed us policeman ent that a went to who supposedly saw a boy the street and ended up murdering him. That is the story. We need to see that. That is what the media tried to show us. Hen what we saw is the police tried to prevent the media from covering the story. That is what made the media part the story. When we saw the police trying it the media from people, they attacked the media, the military come in and attack the people. That is the story. Cant be on one you know, down the middle on that. Was horrible. And we should see that is how it the rest of us. If ferguson can be treated like that so can everyone else by the police. It is up to our media it make sure the people of this country brutality that was put on ferguson as a result of what they have been doing to ferguson 30 years. St host the state newspaper in outh carolina has its lead possible changes for the Police Department in columbia about clippon camp rails. The police are testing the body worn cameras to win more public support and show Embattled Department both transparent and using innovative policing methods. Eight officers on foot patrol in district wore nt small cameras thursday night. Weremore are purchased and to be provided friday for officers who walk five points main street districts. Im excited about it he said i a an indicationis of us being forward thinking and transparent. Mike, good morning. Rockford, illinois. Caller good morning. Cspan. Ning, watched the whole thing on cn tphfrpblgncnn and what i found fascinating was the shift of power from the office to the state police police, to the swat team, to the the national and guard to protect the headquarte headquarters. The shift of power