In the interpretation stage, you will determine the larger meanings of the patterns you have analyzed. The most difficult stage in criticism, interpretation demands an answer to the questions “So what?” and “What does all this mean?”

The newspaper databases themselves increase visibility by archiving these cases and enabling us to look closer and do our own analysis. But does the existence of citizen or police video change the story for journalists, in terms of emphasis on official points of view versus citizen points of view? Does it seem to you that citizen and police videos help to better resolve these cases, or does it become just one more disputed piece of evidence?

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