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9A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2015 FERGUSON: 5HSRUWHUVKDUHVH[SHULHQFHIURP¿HOG fect of that was that dead Amer- ican soldiers were appearing on For example, “wealthier WKH QLJKWO\ QHZV &RI¿QV ZLWK people, mainly white, left for ÀDJVRQWKHPZHUHDSSHDULQJRQ the suburbs, choking off the city the nightly news. That did not go well.” in the middle. The city stayed The military learned its les- mostly black,” he explained. son, and, with the 2003 U.S. in- “The surrounding counties vasion of Iraq, journalists were needed revenue. So they found embedded with the military, their revenue by charging, with restricted from allowing dead tons of violations, the people VROGLHUVDQGÀDJGUDSHGFRI¿QV in that small, poor area. (City on TV. residents) started to accumulate &RQÀLFWUHSRUWLQJ “In Vietnam, it was event re- ¿QHV 7KH ¿QHV OHG WKHP LQWR Ferguson was event cov- porting,” he said. But during the debtors jail.” erage, but it was also institu- Iraq War, “the coverage was not These and other tensions tional coverage, Duara said. It so much about an event. It was escalated for years, Duara said. required “the kind of beat work, about an institution.” And when Michael Brown was “The institution was called the emotional distance, to cover shot, they exploded. the ideas, while simultaneously the ‘coalition government,’ and The Ferguson story lent itself Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian it was doing its mightiest, as PR covering the events.” not just to copious coverage but ,Q EDWWOH RU FRQÀLFW MRXU- people, to shape the perception numerous news angles — the Audience members watch footage of the Ferguson, Missouri, demonstrations during the nalists of some kind have long of itself,” he said, adding that race angle, the class angle, the Columbia Forum presentation by Nigel Duara. ³WKDW¶V WKH IXWXUH RI FRQÀLFW played a role. civil rights angle, the civil liber- When the Greek historian reporting: We’re going to be ties angle, the police-vs.-protest- — put print journalists at a dis- and police reports. they did in Ferguson. And each advantage compared to, say, ers angle. But increasingly, “we’ve journalist will only be able to and philosopher Thucydides — further controlled. We’re going “CNN, FOX and Infowars broadcast journalists and photo- moved away from reporting on capture a fragment of a larger ZKRP'XDUDFDOOHGWKH¿UVWZDU to have more people telling us correspondent — “covered” the more things and what to do. It’ll are all going to grab a different journalists, according to Duara, institutions and moved toward story. piece of that,” Duara said. now a reporter at the Los Ange- reporting on events,” he said, Though many viewers Peloponnesian War between never be Vietnam again.” And, as in the ancient Indian les Times. But the Internet, smart- “and there are consequences to watching coverage on TV and Athens and Sparta in the Fifth story of blind men touching a In print media, reporters can that decision.” the Internet often saw lines of Century B.C., he, like the report- phones and social media, like part of an elephant — in which convey background and explain For instance, it means that protesters facing lines of po- ers who covered Ferguson, tried Facebook and Twitter, have all one man believes the animal’s abstract, esoteric ideas, “which QHZVFRYHUDJHLVLQÀXHQFHGOHVV lice, “as with every situation, it to create a narrative that attempt- changed how news get reported, tail is a rope, another believes its is not a luxury that broadcast- by institutions and — especially wasn’t homogeneous,” he said. ed to “make sense of chaos and distributed and consumed. side is a rock, a third believes a ers have.” But Ferguson-type if the institution is a business or “Now events are not just vi- “There were protesters that death.” leg is a tree trunk, etc. — none events tend to be so visually D QRQSUR¿W ² SXEOLF UHODWLRQV had been drinking all day; they Duara illustrated the differ- sual. They are also tactile. They of the media outlets saw the big compelling that images often departments. Institutions “need ZHUHUHDG\WR¿JKW7KHUHZHUH ence between event coverage are also participatory. You can picture. tell the story far better than prose to make good news about them- protesters who had been read- and institutional coverage by hold them in your hands. You “Nobody sees the elephant, can tell it, he said. selves. Otherwise, it’s all going ing about civil rights, really, all pointing to the differences be- can interact with them,” he said. and that includes us in print me- :KHQ FRQÀLFWV OLNH )HU- In generations past, news to be bad,” he said. day — seriously, blogging about tween journalism during the dia,” he said. centered more on institutional It also means, of course, that civil rights all day — and came Vietnam War and during the JXVRQ ÀDUH XS SHRSOH FDQ JHW involved in them from afar, he coverage of city council meet- coverage depends on events tak- out to actually protest,” he said. Iraq War. Event coverage ings, legislative sessions and ing place. Without a public-re- ³7KHUHZHUHSROLFHRI¿FHUVZKR “The military originally said. “And then we can shame Stories like Ferguson — full police departments. Reporters lations specialist helping set the came out to break somebody’s thought it was a good idea to the people who make bad jokes of opportunities for powerful tracked their beats and obtained tone and shape the story, report- head open, and there were po- send reporters with soldiers into about it on Twitter, which has footage and iconic photographs copies of bills, meeting minutes ers have to do it themselves, like OLFHRI¿FHUVZKRFDPHRXWWKHUH Vietnam,” he said. “And the ef- become a national pastime.” to preserve order.” A key to understanding Fer- guson is to know there were “countervailing forces of pretty equal determination,” Duara said. “Protesters wanted atten- tion (paid) to a story that they felt needed to be told, at any cost, to themselves, the police or the city,” he said. “And the police had a standing order to maintain order at any cost.” &RQWLQXHGIURP3DJH$ MEDICARE: Seniors will have to make new choice for plan &RQWLQXHGIURP3DJH$ individual and group com- mercial coverage, in Clatsop County. 2SWLRQV Advantage plans are offered by private companies that con- tract with Medicare to provide the same items but not neces- sarily at the same rates. The plans — which bundle Medi- care parts A, B and D, and can offer additional items — es- sentially replace Medicare for seniors enrolled in them. Paulette McCoy, public af- fairs manager at Providence Seaside Hospital, said that Re- gence’s decision to pull the Ad- vantage plan from the county will impact hundreds of Provi- dence patients. “BlueCross was our most popular (insurance provider),” she said. Columbia Memorial Hos- pital’s administration could not be reached to provide patient ¿JXUHV Three health insurance companies in Clatsop County offer Advantage plans that can replace Regence: CareOregon and FamilyCare Health Plans, which contract with Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, and Moda Health, which con- tracts with Providence Seaside. Columbia Memorial will take payment from Moda Health, but payment amounts 50 percent in their Medicare premiums next year, while not receiving a cost-of-living in- crease in Social Security bene- ¿WVDVUHSRUWHGWKLVZHHNLQWKH New York Times. Unless Congress intervenes, a quirk in federal law that pro- tects about 70 percent of Medi- FDUH EHQH¿FLDULHV IURP SUH- 6KRSFDUHIXOO\ mium hikes could expose the Nearly one-third of Medi- remaining 30 percent to “major FDUH EHQH¿FLDULHV FRXOG IDFH price shocks” from the rising record increases of roughly costs of prescription drugs, will be larger because the hos- pital is out of the company’s network. Providence contracts with CareOregon but only for special-needs plans; enrollees must qualify for both Medi- care and Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for the poor. Medicare Part B and new med- ical technology. Michelle Lewis, community programs supervisor at North- west Senior and Disability Ser- vices, advises soon-to-be-for- PHUEHQH¿FLDULHVRI5HJHQFH¶V Advantage Plan to shop care- fully and to read thoroughly the replacement plans that interest them. 46 TH ANNIVERS ARY CELEBRATIO N! S P EC IALS ALL D AY! BBQ LUN C H & C AKE! 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