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SC Student’s Assault by Official Prompted Mainstream News Outlets to Explore if Black Girls Are Criminalized in School
Why Are Cops in Schools, Anyway? Media Question Discipline Practices After S.C. Incident The videotaped altercation in a South Carolina high school that saw a white sheriff’s deputy throwing a black female student to a classroom floor and tossing her across it prompted the news media to expand their reporting beyond the incident itself. They…
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White House Shoots Down Idea That Police Aren’t Policing and Violence Has Increased Because of Cop Criticism
FBI Director Ties Scrutiny, Rise in Violent Crime As news organizations revealed new data on driving and even walking while black, FBI Director James B. Comey said the additional scrutiny and criticism of police might have led to an increase in violent crime in some cities as officers have become less aggressive. Comey’s statement Friday…
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President Obama Says Black Lives Matter 'Raises Legitimate Issue'
Group “Raises Legitimate Issue,” President Says at Forum In contrast to Fox News commentators who this week compared the Black Lives Matter movement to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, President Obama said Thursday that the movement “had given voice to the anger and discontent over policing and incarceration that has long been a fact…
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Some Say There’s Nothing Funny About Donald Trump Hosting SNL
Latinos See Invitation as “A Big ‘[Expletive] You’ “ Latino groups are voicing outrage at NBC for asking Donald Trump to host “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 7, saying that if he had insulted other groups as he has Mexicans, no such invitation would be extended. “What if all of the Latino cast members all…
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A Group of News Editors Promised These Diversity Goals and Failed; Some Say They’ll Likely Fail Again
Ready to Overcome Lack of Commitment, Financial Crises? Who dropped the ball? And are there still signs of hope? In 1978, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, as it was then known, challenged the newspaper industry to match in its newsrooms the percentage of people of color in the general population by 2000 or sooner.…
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CNN Is Criticized for Having Don Lemon Ask About Race and Juan Carlos Lopez Ask About Immigration During Democratic Debate
Racial Subjects Too Limiting for Journalists of Color? While many analysts were declaring which Democratic candidates fared best or worst in Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, others were wondering whether the black and Latino reporters permitted to ask questions were being stereotyped. The headlines on Wednesday said it: “Where were CNN’s black and Latino debate…
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Mainstream News Outlets Give 2015 Million Man March Minimal Coverage; Social Media Reacts
20-Year Anniversary of Million Man Event Minimized The first viewer comment on C-SPAN’s call-in “Washington Journal” on Sunday was from Everett of Jersey City, N.J. The topic for the segment was Saturday’s Justice or Else march in Washington, the 20-year sequel to the 1995 Million Man March. “None of the mainstream media were there. That’s…
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Black Fox News Staffers Sound Off About 'Difficult' Work Environment
Network Blasts Observation by Former NABJ President “African-American Fox News staffers find it ‘very difficult’ to work at the network, former president of the National Association of Black Journalists Bob Butler told TheWrap on Thursday,” Jordan Charlton reported for TheWrap.com. ” ‘I’ve talked to some folks who work there and it’s very difficult, especially when…
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Philadelphia Magazine Admits It Has a Diversity Problem and Is Doing Something About It
Latest Flap Follows Cover That Omitted Blacks Philadelphia Magazine reacted Wednesday to a call by black journalists for its editor to resign over the magazine’s lack of diversity by announcing “a series of immediate and long-term diversity initiatives.” The magazine’s lack of inclusion is reflective of city magazines in general. Jack Limpert, then retired editor…