Lecturer Nails comments on intersections of journalism and the value of human life...
The Detroit News
Letter: Complex origins of violence
by Alicia Nails
Alicia Nails, director of Wayne State University's Journalism Institute for Media Diversity, responds to DetNews columnist Nolan Finley's Feb. 5 opinion piece "If life's cheap, murder's not news." Nails writes: "I'm compelled to reach beyond the simplistic 'tisk-tisk' hurled at Detroiters for engineering a world in which they are not richer, more drug-free, more learned, with more stable families … and oh, yes … have more hope. I hope the thinkers among us move from emotional condemnation to thoughtful analysis."