Media

“ABC is apologizing for a segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live in which a child joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt,” the Associated Press reported on Monday. “The boy’s unscripted comment (‘Kill everyone in China,’ he suggested) came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking…

Unity Is Dead, Co-Founders Say Remaining Associations Not Ready to Throw in the Towel The two men credited with the idea for the coalition of journalists-of-color associations say the Unity organization that sprang from their efforts is dead. “UNITY? There is no UNITY,” said Will Sutton of the National Association of Black Journalists. “There hasn’t…

“With the national spotlight on Grambling’s poor facilities, most notably a deplorable weight room, school officials aren’t shying away from the attention,” Sean Isabella reported Tuesday for the News-Star in Monroe, La., near Grambling State University. “The weight room was opened to all media Tuesday morning following new interim coach Dennis ‘Dirt’ Winston’s press conference,…

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted Tuesday to leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, following a similar departure two years ago of the National Association of Black Journalists. The vote was 13 to 2 with three board members absent, President Hugo Balta told Journal-isms. Voting no were Nathan Olivares-Gilles and Erin Ailworth. Absent…

Does a Picture From Capitol Hill Tell the Story? A photo in the Washington Post on Thursday showing reporters outside the office of House Speaker John Boehner Tuesday night seemed to confirm what some suspected about the coverage of the partial federal government shutdown that ended Thursday: Journalists of color were scarce when it came…

The new Fusion network, aimed at English-speaking Latino millennials, is following in the footsteps of its Spanish-language counterparts and so far is featuring only light-skinned Hispanics. Asked whether Afro-Latinos will be on the network, a joint venture of ABC News and Univision, spokesman David Ford told Journal-isms by email, “He’s not an Afro-Latino, but Derrick…

In the media, “negative imagery of Black women is seen often twice as frequently as positive imagery,” according to a survey of more than 1,200 respondents appearing in the November issue of Essence magazine. They “told us that the images we encounter regularly on TV, in social media, in music videos and from other outlets…

“The Obama administration’s aggressive war on leaks and other efforts to control information are without precedent, according to 30 experienced Washington journalists interviewed for a new report released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists,” the Committee reported on Thursday. “The report found that despite President Barack Obama’s promise to head the most open government…

Leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists recommended Monday that the association leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, an action that would leave the onetime Unity: Journalists of Color with two of the original four journalist-of-color associations and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. In a message to members posted on the…

Do Racial Issues Still Push Some Over the Edge? Black Woman’s Chase, Slaying Renews Interest in Theory The suspect slain after a chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol Thursday wasn’t identified by race, unlike the Washington Navy Yard killer who left 12 others dead less than three weeks earlier. Miriam Carey wasn’t…