Former KSTP-TV news reporter Crystal Bui penned a memoir about her time covering the chaos amid the George Floyd riots, and condemned the newsroom she worked for at the time.
Former KSTP-TV news reporter Crystal Bui penned a memoir about her time covering the chaos amid the George Floyd riots, and condemned the newsroom she worked for at the time.“After working for almost a decade as an award-winning television news reporter, Crystal Bui had become numb to the idea of death-until George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis,” the Amazon summary reads.
Bui not only shares “insight into her personal trauma and the events affecting her life and career,” but also reportedly “exposes the grave shortcomings of the news industry during what was one of the largest social justice movements of our time,” the summary added.
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