![]() ![]() “The Rodney King tape was the beginning of what we see today-now that everyone has a cell phone,” says Julián Castro, former secretary of Housing and Urban Development. ![]() CNN reporters embedded in Baghdad and on the Kuwaiti border were providing the White House with more information than it was getting from its own generals.īack in the U.S., the beating of Rodney King by white police officers, filmed on a video camera by a bystander, showed the world the reality of the treatment black people endured at the hands of a white police force. Next up came the world’s first televised war-one that was broadcast in real time, on a 24-hour news cycle. Journalists reported the story on their cable channels within minutes, and by the time the hour was up, East and West Berliners were hammering on the gates-thanks to new media, the flow of information crossed borders, and both sides now understood the wall was open, even while the policy wonk was still droning on. Events were spurred to unravel when a policy wonk droning on in a press conference misspeaks.
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