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Blacks and Hispanics Say Digital Media Coverage Neglects Them
“Their Communities Not Paid Much Attention in the News” “The predicted digital divide, in which people of color would be left behind in the use of technology, is not playing out as many of those forecasting the digital future anticipated, at least not when it comes to news, according to a new survey released today,”…
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Why Michael Brown’s Body Was Left on the Street for So Long
St. Louis Paper Compiles “Most Comprehensive” Account The St. Louis Post-Dispatch told readers Sunday that it had “put together the most comprehensive public account chronicling the police response” in the hours after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last month. “To determine why the body remained on the street for…
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Memphis Departure Highlights Decline in Black Columnists
Wendi C. Thomas Leaves Commercial Appeal Wendi C. Thomas, who was reassigned in June from the columnist’s job she held for 10 years, resigned from the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, effective immediately. She was the newspaper’s only columnist of color and only female columnist. Thomas’ departure continues a depressing trend. Since 2008,…
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Beheadings of US Journalists Helped Obama Sell His Military Plan to the Public
In Prime Time, Obama Declares Campaign Against Sunni Militants Outrage at the beheading of two American journalists buttressed public support for the kind of U.S. action against terrorism outlined Wednesday night by President Obama, according to commentators analyzing the president’s speech. “The public has decided that people who cut off the heads of journalists are…
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The Media Is Just as Culpable as the NFL in Initially Coddling Ray Rice
Does TMZ Deserve Kudos After Rice Suspension? Debate Over Who Was Gutless and Who Unethical “Running back Ray Rice was cut by the Baltimore Ravens Monday and suspended indefinitely by the NFL after TMZ Sports released a video of him hitting his then-fiancee (now wife) Janay Palmer in February,” as Jonathan Kuperberg reported for Broadcasting &…
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New Cosby Bio Looks Like a Best-Seller
Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: Journalists’ Fall Offerings (Part 1) Mark Whitaker, a former network news executive who spent the bulk of his career at Newsweek magazine, has produced a reader-friendly biography of entertainer Bill Cosby, an icon who has been part of American life for 50 years. The book seems destined for the fall best-seller…
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How Media Have Shaped Our Perception of Race and Crime
How Media Skew Our Views of Race, Crime Distortions Bolster Harsher Penalties, Study Finds “Skewed racial perceptions of crime — particularly, white Americans’ strong associations of crime with racial minorities — have bolstered harsh and biased criminal justice policies [PDF],” the nonprofit Sentencing Project reported Wednesday, outlining the role played by the news media in skewing…
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Would a Black Editor Have Caught the ‘No Angel’ Line About Michael Brown?
How Did “No Angel” Line About Ferguson Victim Get Through? Writer Says Having More Black Editors Might Help In many ways, the reaction last week to a New York Times writer’s profile of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old whose death at the hands of a Ferguson, Mo., policeman prompted national outrage, was a black journalist’s nightmare.…
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‘White People’ Magazine Targeted in Bombshell Suit
Complaint Cites Story Choices, Pale Time Inc. Leadership A discrimination lawsuit filed by black journalist Tatsha Robertson against her former employer, People magazine, is notable because it cites People’s editorial choices and the makeup of the leadership of the parent company, Time Inc., as evidence of discrimination, Robertson’s lawyer told Journal-isms on Friday. “Maybe they…
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Is the Press Agitating Things in Ferguson for a Good Story?
“Why Police Will Continue to Arrest Journalists” In Ferguson, Press Corps Has Become Its Own Story “At the end of another dangerous night in Ferguson, Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson offered an emotional plea to the media on Monday: Please stop putting officers in danger and glamorizing violent agitators in your quest for…