Morning Belz, April 12

Links.

Black man killed by police in Minnesota, riots ensue — Star Tribune
Statement from the mayor of Brooklyn Center — Mike Elliott
Hideki Matsuyama is first Japanese man to win Masters — AP
CEO pay, by and large, surged in 2020 — WSJ
U.S. Chamber of Commerce now politically homeless — National Journal
Douthat: Will the meritocracy ever find religion? — NYT
Small Iowa town gathers to honor fallen state trooper — Register
Andrew Callaghan’s back with a new venture — Channel 5*

*It’s a party video. Not for everyone. And it got taken down by YouTube for “medical misinformation.” We’ve heard this story before.

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“I find photojournalism that captures grief/mourning without consent — especially from a privileged positionality — extractive & gross. Just cause state-sanctioned murder is so common that grief happens in public, doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to own and share a stranger’s pain.” — Abeer Syedah, expressing an apparently widely-held position among activists in Minneapolis toward photojournalism (and journalism in general)

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