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The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded on December 6, 1877. The newspaper won forty-seven Pulitzer Prizes and has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Wesley Lowery joined the Washington Post in February 2014. He is a national reporter who covers law enforcement, justice, race and politics. Prior to joining the Washington Post, he worked as a breaking news and local politics reporter for the Boston Globe, and has also reported for the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. In 2014, Lowery was named the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Emerging Journalist of the Year. The Los Angeles Times, commonly referred to as the Times or LA Times, is a paid daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, …show more content…
He wrote the article “Aren't more white people than black people killed by police? Yes, but no.” to eradicate the racial correlation associated with police killings. It is an unsaid bias that many people believe black people are more susceptible to being killed by police officers. In this article he proves that to be untrue and explains how based off facts, the race of a victim does not decide whether he is killed or not by police. Melissa Healy’s article, “Blacks are more likely to be killed by police, but that’s because they’re more likely to be stopped, study says” was written to provide reason to the bias that black people are more susceptible to being killed by police officers. Healy is not proving it to be untrue, she is saying they are more likely to be killed by police because they are more likely to be stopped. She wants to provide the readers with different reasons other than race as to why more black people are killed by
The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper. It is the most widely circulated newspaper published in Washington, D.C., and was founded on December 6, 1877. The newspaper won forty-seven Pulitzer Prizes and has a particular emphasis on national politics. Daily editions are printed for the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Wesley Lowery joined the Washington Post in February 2014. He is a national reporter who covers law enforcement, justice, race and politics. Prior to joining the Washington Post, he worked as a breaking news and local politics reporter for the Boston Globe, and has also reported for the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. In 2014, Lowery was named the National Association of Black Journalists’ “Emerging Journalist of the Year. The Los Angeles Times, commonly referred to as the Times or LA Times, is a paid daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, …show more content…
He wrote the article “Aren't more white people than black people killed by police? Yes, but no.” to eradicate the racial correlation associated with police killings. It is an unsaid bias that many people believe black people are more susceptible to being killed by police officers. In this article he proves that to be untrue and explains how based off facts, the race of a victim does not decide whether he is killed or not by police. Melissa Healy’s article, “Blacks are more likely to be killed by police, but that’s because they’re more likely to be stopped, study says” was written to provide reason to the bias that black people are more susceptible to being killed by police officers. Healy is not proving it to be untrue, she is saying they are more likely to be killed by police because they are more likely to be stopped. She wants to provide the readers with different reasons other than race as to why more black people are killed by