to consider they find a face to put on the story not the murderers since he's a white supremacist they go for new zealand's prime minister just send to our dern a white politician getting far more coverage than the victims our starting point this week is not new zealand it's a stray it's where the killer came from and it's where a lot of people are blaming the media especially news outlets owned by rupert murdoch for sowing the seeds of the hate unleashed in christchurch. journalism is built through words and images sometimes though the story lies in the numbers a study conducted by one path network and islamic media outlet based in sydney tallied up the number of negative stories that five newspapers owned by rupert murdoch's news corp produced in the year two thousand and seventeen these days islam sells so it's no surprise that newspapers are cashing in. but you might be

shocked to know just how much they are it found almost three thousand such stories referring to islam or muslims alongside words such as radical. or terrorism headlines like. the head of the class from syria with. let's just in twenty seven. we're talking with an. islam and muslims once every second day in two thousand and seventeen there was a front page that demonized and spoken about muslims and this is bound to have an impact on the way that australians and mainstream c.v. stand in the slums has personally come out and attacked muslims on twitter previously his newspapers are quite disproportionate in the coverage when it comes to muslims they exaggerate certain aspects they are quite divisive and dangerous and sometimes are completely wrong if he was a person that islam would have a very. good case against the mood of press the media is still powerful in the

sense that a lot of people turn to it as their primary source of news and information and certainly for older australians and people who continue to watch free to consume the mainstream newspapers they're not really getting a diversity of views i don't want this to be a bashing of one particular news organization it's actually across the board some places are just more gracious than others. and while the murdoch media empire is headquartered in new york and entrenched in london it got its start and remains hugely influential you know. that's where the christchurch killer was born raised and in all likelihood. if australia is mainstream media helped the murderous belief. in social media with where he went to spread his first stop was on a website called. he posted his manifesto seventy three pages the day before the mass then he live streamed his attack on facebook from there it spread reposed it

on youtube talked about on reddit travelling the world before the big tech platforms even song what was happening on their sites the killer clearly understood the way the internet works and exploit it. i do think that there was a type of mocking the media kind of element to it i took away from that that there was a clear attempt to game both the media system the news the its coverage patterns against it but also use that media system to get attention for what it was trying to do with the same time the internet is a double edged sword i know it was a lot it in the past as a tool to put forward underrepresented voices we know now that it's also amplified the voices of hype that for every instance of it's news to topple authoritarian regimes we have incidents like the live streaming of the matter of fifty. the early days of the internet or college the wild west anybody can have a voice anybody can have an opinion it's great it's not that way anymore. and their

business models don't work if they shut people down you could look at that as a pure distillation of free expression ideology but i would say more this is a market choice you know that they their sites don't exist literally people are unable to post a comment i think we should recognize that white supremacy and other ideologies of hate preexisted the internet and so while we pay due attention to the sheer speed and global reach of the internet we need to talk about how hateful ideologies come into being what allows them to flourish and i have to say that although internet platforms have a reach and spreads that other media don't print media and broadcast media are not without their share of responsibility. when the story broke across the mainstream news media the new zealand government quickly banned domestic outlets from showing the video deeming the material objectionable the prime minister just sindar dern went further when she vowed to never say the gunman's name he saw many things from

his act of tier one was notoriety. and this is why you never hear his name or mash eatings and too many global news outlets followed that same approach voluntarily choosing not to show the video images of the perpetrator or identify him by the exceptions one of which was the mail online a british news website were widely criticized and quickly shamed into taking the video down prime minister are durn has been a near constant feature in the news coverage widely praised for the sensitivity she showed to the victims' families and her government's almost instant ban on semiautomatic weapons somehow a politician who campaigned on reducing immigration to new zealand has become the face of this story and in congress already that was noted by this cambridge university academic. well let me first classify i think it is good stamps to send

the order and as prime minister is doing her job she is doing but dignity and competence so i have no issues with her there is a bug in the box has to do with not who just send this but what function she is playing fifty people who are muslim have lost their lives they should be at the heart of this story part of for is happening i think is a degree of damage control and i think the figure of just in the order is being deployed to do that damage control which is to say the repeated claims this is not who we are i think more helpful claims to say this is not who we want to be and we need to grapple with this as a community so that we can become who we aspire to be rather than dissidents a saying this is not who we are when news organizations put such a focus on a single figure they must receive a need on the part of white audiences the people doing the clicking what kind of

need would we be talking about i think that we know this from hollywood that stories that don't have. a white characters somewhere along the way even if it's a largely black cost don't and this it's why it is interesting i think that the idea goes well beyond hollywood it comes to our news stories as well and i think it is not accidental that just send. elicits the clicks that news organizations and platforms needs because here is somebody who does allow a certain kind of redemption. if prime minister are dern really is a white redeemer she now has plenty of company this past friday the muslim call to prayer was broadcast nationwide on state owned television news anchors were head scarves in solidarity so did countless women of all religious descriptions sending

messages of their own however this story did not start in new zealand its causes lie elsewhere including a strain and the so-called news outlets that have trafficked in hate for so long for them with is still a long way off. at least people need to be accountable for their actions and although some of them of come out with words of condolences and misuse of support please thanks but no thanks treatment centers of support are not something that we need we need radical change we need new laws to protect muslims from the system of . because the reality is is that you have contributed to the stomach phobic climate in australia and new zealand and around the world your words your actions are complicit. we're discussing other media

stories that are on our radar with one of our producers and. c.n.n. put out a piece this week a rather lengthy one on the white house spokesperson. leon conway it got a lot of flak over that report walk us through that story so this story is part of a c.d.s. that's being run by c.n.n. it's called and i'm not kidding bad ass women d.c. it's about powerful women in the u.s. captain conway fighting for trouble on t.v. is valuable currency for a cable news obsessed president but the report runs eight and a half minutes and it profiles one of the most prolific liars of the trumpet ministration now bear in mind c.n.n. says that it does facts first journalism and throughout this entire report there is just a passing mention of kellyanne conway is deliberate and persistent this information but she is heavily criticized for sometimes taking it too far entering the realm of alternative facts there are lots of problems here it's not just what the report emits it's also the way in which c.n.n. normalizes conway and the role that she's playing now there are actually interview

producers at c.n.n. who have said they will not because way because of her lies and now you see this puff piece on the same network now on social media the blowback was immediate there were lots of comments and gifts and people asking why would the network even do this now one of the only plausible theories is access trump and c.n.n. article loggerheads however in washington access still matters so you got in touch or c.n.n. asked them questions about this no one gets back to you but those questions they won't be on this particular report yes we're heading towards the two thousand and twenty presidential elections and i wanted to ask c.n.n. given that experience of the two thousand and sixteen cycle have been learned anything are we going to see anything different now you might remember during the primary season c.n.n. would just cut to trump rallies and run them in their entirety it's great for ratings but for the candidate it's basically a free ride just free airtime after those elections c.n.n. president jeff zucker he spoke to new york times magazine and he said the idea that

politics is a sport is undeniable we understood that and we approached it that way the rest. for the network hasn't changed c.n.n. still books trump backers who come on to the air they lie they create flash points that are made for t.v. there's an overreliance on panel discussions with a fair amount of shouting it's what c.n.n. cause a diversity of perspectives these the viewers have come not to expect anything of fox news they used to do of c.n.n. but looking at all of this it doesn't bode very well for the elections coming up ok thanks mena. senegal's presidential election held late last month may have passed you by after all what sets the west african nation apart from many of its neighbors a stable and steady democracy doesn't usually make news however those following the campaign would have been struck by one of the defining features of senegalese politics hip hop artists and the pivotal roles that they can play in elections a major reason for that demographics the average age of citizens there is

exceptionally low just nineteen rappers were among the founders of the country's largest social movement credited with swaying the previous election back in two thousand and twelve since then a social media boom has boosted raps reach even further and senegalese politicians have taken note this year all the leading candidates hit the campaign trail with at least one rapper in their corner listening posts daniel to a t. now on how hip hop became the language of politics for senegal's use. in most countries political candidates hope for the endorsement of a newspaper or two perhaps a media vocal but in senegal if last month's election was anything to go by rappers seem to be the influences to get inside. the incumbent president. had the group best. to perform

a prime minister interest to say it was daddy. meanwhile another candidate. had seized backing him up at the moment i think the reason why rappers have played such a central role in setting up these politics is partly because the country's extraordinary young many young people are this. kind of voice in the streets and providing a way to think about politics especially in the most recent presidential election. cynical attempt by these politicians popularity with your you saw all of the major cities presidential candidates trying to find endorsements rappers this was you know very much an attempt to try to neutralize the impact of. the rap. is one of senegal's most political and most popular groups.

kirky doesn't endure specific candidates out of principle but it's anti-government that. is the biggest hits of the campaign. means tricks the. main language an insult aimed squarely at president not the south and one he didn't take kindly to this is the would be. sounds respond spoke to the impact that hip hop and could be in particular can have on young voters back in two thousand and eleven the rapper's helped found the social movement. french for we've had enough on the following year. in opposition trying to get elected the movement was credited with tipping the vote his way. unless you want to march along with other young rath based played a pivotal role in the fight against the former president on. what had wanted to

change the constitution but he on a march mobilized citizens and even politicians and helped get the bill defeated then in the presidential election in two thousand and twelve little position too wide had a major impact on the result and the transfer of power to. it was nothing short of a political revolution said take out a mark the cost of ownership openly think marcus out he. is well aware of the power hip hop has and senegal before two thousand and twelve we were just protesting rappers who focused on political and social issues but that year we felt a sense of urgency and we took the own omar movement to the streets the former president had banned protest marches so we launched what we called urban guerrilla poetry buses going around the country to get people to register to vote we wrote drops like. if you're eighteen years old go get registered during the campaign i'm at the south came to meet us he said i limit my term to five years my

family won't be involved in public affairs i'll do this i'll do that but it turned out to be nothing but lies someone like that doesn't deserve another mandate so the people in the middle. this time around the younger more rappers were not able to repeat the success they had had five years earlier in unseating the president macky cell was reelected nonetheless hip-hop seems to have secured a place of the political table in the senate got itself is is is quite distinctive within the west african sub region senegal has always been known as a society that is very supportive of the arts report saying or the first senegalese president himself was a poet and an intellectual who devoted tremendous amounts of resources to developing the culture in senegal collectively a lot of money was put in. the arts. and the us rappers who talk about sex drugs make millions but here if you don't talk about the issues that are relevant

to people you won't respect artists take their responsibility seriously and rewrite politically conscious lyrics it's important to remember that is meant to be a tool for raising awareness a tool of social transformation. the power of hip hop as a gateway to senate goes beyond politics and. pay as a news cost route to abate its founders who man and katie rhyme their take on the news in french. cut me. off. they even host debates. but i don't know half they started life but its success in attracting senegal's

digital natives soon caught the attention of mainstream media when something like. when it comes to talking about social issues rap is the most powerful medium because it gets to the biggest audience general rep a starter on you tube and then channel two s t v we also broadcast its journalists were reticent to begin with because they thought that people were messing with the news but they quickly understood that we were not trying to take place in the country we are trying to help them with their work. traditional media like television and radio has had to adapt and catch up with changing times it's no longer like before we had a monopoly on the news the rise of social media meant we had to update our output. a is a way of simplifying political news and making it accessible to citizens who might not want to watch news broadcasts they do not report the news they do not produce

information or they take news already pre-processed by television channels to present it to citizens with a taste of music and it's lovely it's quite an artistic creation that they are simply going to stick to social media underway in africa driven by young populations and cheap chinese smartphones has enabled john over pay to go international backed by the ngo the open society initiative for west africa it's rapper's have kick started similar projects across the region in mali. you know how to get there is the.