The Brian Lehrer Show

Where You Stand...

Thursday, November 30, 2006

We continue coverage of the Queens police shooting with a look at race and perception. From snap judgments at the height of the incident to how we decide if the cops should go to jail, experience based on race matters. We’ll ask how to find truth and justice when emotions can be so different and take a closer look at the police unit. Also, imagining journalism with no newspapers and reports and memos on Iraq.

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The Unit

Mike Wilson, reporter at The New York Times
and
Julian Harper, co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, retired NYC Police lieutenant who supervised a vice squad in Queens
- continue coverage of the police shooting in Queens, focusing on the undercover vice unit

Race & Perception

Les Payne, Newsday columnist
and
James McBride, award-winning composer and author of the memoir, The Color Of Water (Putnam, 1996), available for purchase at Amazon.com
and
Dalton Conley, University Professor of the social sciences and chair of sociology at New York University and author of the memoir, Honky (University of California Press, 2000), available for purchase at Amazon.com
and
Jonathan Zimmerman, teaches history and education at New York University and author, Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2006), available for purchase at Amazon.com
- discuss the way experience based on race influences perceptions of the Queens police shooting

Boston Globe Op-ed by Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Historical Fallacy"

Blog All About It

Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times
and
Jeff Jarvis, writes the blog, Buzzmachine.com
and
Walter Fields, CEO and Executive Editor of the North Star Network, a Black public affairs online portal
- can the newspaper survive in a web-era?

Jill Abramson takes questions from readers online