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The focus has been on the spectacle, not the.. One woman shares her story of Flink Taliban ..

The pro-Palestine Tempest protests have gott..

Journalists have reported story after story .. Daniel Kate Brown wrote in the conversation -..

Thank you so much for being available.

It was a pleasure to be with you today.

Thank you for having me.

>> Of course.

You have a body of work that focuses on activ.. Is that what prompted you to write this piece.. >> Yes.

A lot of my work has focused on the increase.. Because you are there protest movements can .. You gone to say that you are a blight on the .. What does an audience miss when we end media.. >> Most audiences only see protests when they.. Business as usual is not politics.

You miss the opportunity to understand and s.. Why collective of people decided to organize .. You miss the regular politics, the business a..

When media only chooses to cover the breaking.. We find time and time again in various survey.. More often than not it is the news media who..

Quotes were there any specific examples we ca.. >> A lot of the coverage for the first 10 day..

The chaos.

By doing that, they begin to emphasize the nu..

Sometimes there will be a small paragraph th.. Usually it is a long line of encouraging thei..

But that's it.

When people see the overwhelming amount of in.. More of the narrative focuses on those headli.. Those types of words and themes.

That is what people are able to take away.

I think you are also doing work to bridge th.. What is it about news outlets taken away whe.. >> We have found that community media -- med..

They are able to do that a lot quicker.

We also find it is not just an alternative me..

They are also embedded in those newsrooms th..

In my research, we found that some of the mo..

So in our research we have -- our team is wo.. Because it sounds like there is some power i..

Your piece touches on how official narrative..

I am curious whether you think that some of t..

If they say anything about protests, because .. >> Official sources -- we have relationships .. We talked to them before.

A list official statements.

When they provide quotes, there is a legal c.. Official sources will almost all the initial ..

Especially in a particular event.

What we have is just a challenge of how you b.. One of the functions of journalism is to pro..

The first draft of history rather than the se..

The official narratives, it is part of the jo..

It creates a complicated space for journalist..

Especially when we talk about the protest pa.. What we know to be true is many of the narra.. We have a lot of work to do in terms of imagi..

Certainly, the traditional and current functi.. >> I want to turn to public responsibility n..

If you think there is a public responsibility.

Time and resources in the industry are limit.. And in large part, but we cover is driven by.. How do we deal with that reality?

What role does the public have and push us to.. >> The public has to be willing to be journa..

Audiences needed more cognizant of what they.. As a over time, with events like this involve.. We need them to be invested and understand t.. >> Lastly and quickly if you can, if you lift.. What would you suggest as you move toward mo.. >> When I was on the ground in Minneapolis, a..

If it leads come in these.

My work in -- it might work in some scenarios..

It creates what a with audiences so we don't ..

There is evidence that more holistic coverag.. >> Professor Daniel Brown, thank you so much.

Question matter what we like to tell ourselv..

Right now, the feud between Kendrick Lamar a..

It is clear that we just can't get enough of .. What's going on and what side are you on?

>> What is great about the Kendrick Lamar and..

I don't really have a dog in this fight.

I'm just fascinated by it because it keeps g..

I don't know why at the outset of their -- Drake was promoting Kendrick and saying this ..

It went wrong really fast.

Both of them have used their skills.

We see some -- >> You are J. Cole in the situation and you .. >> One thing, Kendrick did call Drake and ji..

I have quotes from the dissing and redressing.

>> This feud that President Obama wants weig..

But without evaluating any of what has been .. Was it ready beforehand?

What was the writing process?

Did he do it all once in the studio?

>> The only question prompt is he can turn it..

It felt like it wasn't prepared.

He wanted to be up.

It's a straight a little bit longer to respond.

Some of the disses -- they are calling them r..

I say we like those fun beefs.

They kind of go at each other.

>> It is hard because we like the genre some..

It does involve a lot of bravado and showing .. With the lies -- rise of lady rappers, wheez.. >> Cardi B a Nicki Minaj.

But I think that is all about Nicki Minaj be..

Instead of embracing her and being funny abou.. And wants to let her know that I'm still the .. And I get that to some degree.

I have a real dog in the fight but the one I .. With the truth say about us being involved i.. We want them to show the kind of vulnerabilit..

It becomes important if we have a dog in the..

If you like Kendrick better than Drake, it be.. >> I just want to revisit the Kendrick and D..

I think that -- I'd like to think that rep b.. >> With this particular rep beef between Kend.. Because both of their records -- all of their..

It has been a boon to both of them in the po.. >> I think my favorite part about all of it ..

It made me miss when twitter was twitter, now.. >> Is gotten big enough so that Michelle was..

There is something to be said for the immedi.. Who knows how long it will keep going?

Thank you so much.

Finally tonight, you don't have to be a knig.. That is something they learned -- She recounts her journey on story from the s.. We bring you that now as a partnership betwee.. >> I government my grandfather but going up, ..

He was very famous for having a good and and.. She was the kind of person who is able to tel.. One day she said to me I am seeing you one D.. That distracted me.

I said what does it mean to have the face of .. Could you see my grandfather in my face?

In another way really encouraged me.

I was born in 2001, the same year the Taliban.. With them out of power, it meant I could grow..

Although the security situation of Afghanist..

There were of an of suicide bombers and atta..

They were never enough surgeons to care for ..

There were never enough woman doctors.

I remember telling my mom I want to help.

Two years later on 2020, I am a first year m..

I am one of the 70 women among 150 classmates..

This is an amazing time for me and my family ..

I love the study, going to cafés and attendin..

When the Taliban attacked our university on .. Our teacher told us to run because our campus..

It was the scariest moment of my life.

This event frightens my family and they asked..

Since the Taliban are preventing us from goin..

I told my family I would apply just to make t..

However we are living in the 21st century.

All despite the attacks.

I was wrong.

We learned that the Taliban took over the gov.. My father who worked with United nation for a.. My dad and my brother went to investigate wh..

Honestly, I do not even pack a bag.

She said it would be difficult in her conditi..

I think she did not believe we would actually..

I would have begged my mom to come but every..

I remember my body being pushed onto the pli.. Two weeks later we arrived in the United Sta..

This is my first time traveling out of Afgha.. At this point, the officers told us we cannot..

I look at my father and I realize I've never..

I am assigned to live in a big hall of 70 oth..

I feel alone.

I am the only single woman in the room.

I am not fluent in the language.

I am sitting, crying all the time, not eating..

There is no good Internet connection to reac..

I felt like everything I had worked for was e..

There were medical tents and staff were treat.. One day I went there and I asked if I could v..

I told him I can speak English and they said .. We have interpreters.

I kept going back because that was the only t..

I wanted to learn about the United States me..

I asked about what it looks like to become a ..

This helped him to get back over my bed.

Four months later, we moved to Massachusetts.

This is a time when everything starts to get .. As we started to build a new light from a str.. Everything was there expensive.

I also started to worry about my dream of bec..

Some people said to me you have to give up o..

Edible school is very expensive in the Unite..

But my father tells me to not give up on you..

He said he would work two or three jobs if he.. From there I decided no matter how many chall..

I want to make my father proud.

I also want to honor all of the female class..

I want to give women help everywhere.

Thank you.

Close you can catch more stories from the sta.. You can catch some LGBTQ plus stories live a.. For tickets and more info, I do GBH at or/ev.. We are offering free tickets to a limited nu..

Thank you for watching.

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