Elliot Williams

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443 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Elliot Williams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Let's just state what happened, right?
Armed, masked, tacked out.
Law enforcement, Somalia.
Not even Somalia.
If in France we had heard that that was happening, we would be watching that with, oh my God, what a backwater crazy place.
And it's an important point you make there, Jennifer.
It's a really important point, this idea of what if elsewhere we were reading the same exact facts
OK, great.
Many people.
Thank you for asking.
You know, so I've been talking about it all week and I've got a copy of it right here.
You know, I'll even show it.
You know, many people will remember the 1984 subway vigilante shooting.
Bernard gets shot and seriously wounded four young black unarmed teenagers in the subway.
sound familiar well that's america and so this book really is a tour through one new york city was unsafe at the time but what did that empower one individual guy to do why did he feel so empowered to act out and all of the forces that made the bernie getz story um such national news why bernie gets is named in billy jill's we didn't start the fire because he becomes a bit of a cultural icon
Let me say, you know, something that's come up, that comes up in a lot of I've had it broadcast and comes up a lot in my book and may resonate with your people is this idea of media bias and corporate media and so on.
And I have an entire chapter in this book, Five Bullets, about Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the New
totally turbocharged coverage of crime in New York City to frighten people, to make them more scared, to put big headlines, wink nod, there are black folks running the streets and they're coming for you.
And it was all, and you can read it all about this chapter in Five Bullets, in this chapter in Five Bullets, it's all about how that one moment in a media takeover shifted the country's, the city's coverage of crime.
All of the New York City tabloids, which you're familiar with, the Daily News and Newsday and so on, started doing the same thing.
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