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  • Today Hour 3: Kelly in; Roker, Hall Out

    NBC intends to launch a new daytime show featuring former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, displacing black journalists Tamron Hall and Al Roker from the third hour of the “Today” show, according to reports Friday .Hall’s contract expires in February. That the contract of fellow black journalist Joy Reid, host of the weekend “AM Joy”…

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  • BET.com Traffic Dwarfs All Competitors

    Editor’s note: The percentages below comparing increases or decreases from 2015 to 2016 actually compare only December 2015 with December 2016. The correct full-year-to-full-year percentage changes will appear in the next column. BET.com registered a 90 percent increase in average monthly unique visitors in 2016, according to the comScore, Inc., research company, making it the…

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  • Trump Team’s Lies Ignite Firestorm

    After a weekend of unprecedented criticism of the newly inaugurated President Donald J. Trump and his new press secretary Sean Spicer for their equally unprecedented string of falsehoods and hectoring of the news media, Spicer told reporters on Monday that the White House’s intention is never to lie. It was a conversation in which the…

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  • What Black Networks Missed by Not Showing the Inauguration

    Black Entertainment Television and TV One, the major African American-oriented networks, provided a much-needed service on Election Day by providing a sympathetic outlet for their stunned viewers to process Donald Trump’s presidential victory. But on Inauguration Day, both took a pass. They blew it. “Our viewers are far more emotionally moved by the exit of…

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  • O’Reilly Fans Financed HBCU Band’s Trip to Trump’s Inauguration

    The Talladega College Marching Tornadoes band, inspired by an appearance of the college president on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” Thursday, has raised more than $640,000 to participate in Donald J. Trump’s inaugural parade. The band had sought only $75,000. Bill O’Reilly “said that much of the money raised for the historically black college…

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  • News Overload Is Perfect for Donald Trump

    “Quick: Name the biggest story of the week,” Callum Borchers wrote Sunday for the Washington Post. “If a clear answer didn’t just spring to mind, that is probably because there are so many stories to choose from. To wit: “Unverified claims that Russia attempted to compromise President-elect Donald Trump by collecting damaging information about him…

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  • Who Came to Jim Acosta’s Defense?

    CNN reporter Jim Acosta yelled at Donald Trump at Wednesday’s news conference, “Mr. President-elect, since you have been attacking our news organization, can you give us a chance?” “No! Not you. No! Your organization is terrible,” Trump shot back. (CNN video)CNN reporter Jim Acosta yelled at Donald Trump at Wednesday’s news conference, “Mr. President-elect, since…

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  • SC Media Long Involved in Debate Over Confederate Flag

    The State Out Front; Black Paper Most Hardline South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call for removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol grounds Monday continues a decades-long fight in which the state’s newspapers have played a role, though it was not always clear whether they were leading or reflecting public opinion. “Two…

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  • Chicago Outlet Debated Publishing Photo Showing 2 Cops Treating a Black Suspect Like a Deer

    Sun-Times Runs a Photo That Police Didn’t Want Seen “Photographs can do a number of things. “They can help frame a news story or put it into better context. “They can convey details and nuances of a story that might otherwise be lost,” Jim Kirk, publisher and editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote…

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  • Cosby: CNN’s Upcoming Special About Beverly Johnson’s Accusations Is Not Balanced

    Beverly Johnson Charges Surface Talk of Lies, Death Threats CNN replied Monday to a scathing letter from Bill Cosby’s lawyer accusing the network of unethical reporting tactics with a scathing letter of its own. The network’s lawyer ripped into the character of a former boyfriend of supermodel Beverly Johnson, who, following accusations by other women,…

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