{"id":1114,"date":"2014-06-30T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2014-06-30T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:01:29","slug":"pbs-newshour-and-rap-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2014\/06\/30\/pbs-newshour-and-rap-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS NewsHour and Rap on Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/rap-lyrics-used-evidence-court\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1113\" title=\"Screen shot 2014-06-30 at 3.23.31 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-30-at-3.23.31-PM-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-30-at-3.23.31-PM-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2014\/06\/Screen-shot-2014-06-30-at-3.23.31-PM.png 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, <em>PBS NewsHour<\/em> ran <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/rap-lyrics-used-evidence-court\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">a segment<\/span><\/a><\/span> on a topic I&#8217;ve dedicated much of this blog to: \u00a0the growing use of rap lyrics in criminal trials. \u00a0I was fortunate enough to be interviewed for the piece, and I&#8217;m especially happy to have been involved because of how well it turned out. \u00a0I knew this story needed to be told visually to come alive, but also by a network that takes journalism seriously. \u00a0I think the producers at PBS (shout out to William Brangham and Saskia DeMelker) nailed it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 10 minutes long, and although there&#8217;s always more to say, I think this provides an excellent overview of the issue and a balanced look at differing perspectives. \u00a0A<span style=\"color: #444444; line-height: 1.7;\">\u00a0big thanks to PBS for helping to keep this topic in the spotlight.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, PBS NewsHour ran a segment on a topic I&#8217;ve dedicated much of this blog to: \u00a0the growing use of rap lyrics in criminal trials. \u00a0I was fortunate enough to be interviewed for the piece, and I&#8217;m especially happy to have been involved because of how well it turned out. \u00a0I knew this story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2014\/06\/30\/pbs-newshour-and-rap-on-trial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PBS NewsHour and Rap on Trial<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}