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Shocking Chicago Video Released After Legal Challenge by Media
Officer Unloaded Gun on Black Teen 16 Times in 15 Seconds The shocking and disturbing video showing the fatal police shooting of a black Chicago teenager was released Tuesday only after lawsuits by journalists and news organizations — a yearlong delay that has prompted criticism of the city’s black leadership, others in the media, and…
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The Media Pounces on Donald Trump: Um, Most White Americans Are Killed by Other Whites, Not Blacks
GOP Candidate Stands by Racially Charged Misinformation News media fact checkers leaped on Donald Trump Sunday and Monday over two racially charged — some said racist — statements about Arab Americans and African Americans. “Having already played the hate card against Mexicans and Muslims — and getting crackerjack results — Donald Trump has apparently decided…
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Latino Leaders Angry After NBC Meeting
Network News President Blunders but Elevates Diaz-Balart “Hispanic lawmakers hoped a meeting with top executives from MSNBC and NBC News Wednesday would smooth over hard feelings from Donald Trump’s appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Instead, it had the opposite effect,” Lauren French and Hadas Gold reported Wednesday for Politico. “NBC News President Deborah Turness committed…
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How Race Has Shaped People’s Perception of the Paris Attacks
Commentators See Hypocrisy in Positions on Refugees African American, Latino, Asian American, Arab American and Native American commentators each found coverage of the Paris terrorist bombings worthy of comment from their ethnic vantage point Wednesday as the world remained transfixed by developments following the attack that killed at least 129 people and wounded hundreds more.…
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As Newspapers Include More Social Media Stories to Keep Up With the Times, Some Content Shocks Traditional Readers
New on Editorial Page: Thuggish Poses Palm Beach Post Takes Readers to Deadly “Facebook Wars” Pictures of young black men pointing guns and flashing cash aren’t the usual fare for editorial pages, but that’s what readers of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post and its website saw in September — and the photos came from the…
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Figuring Out Why a Va. Man Was Tasered and Then Died While in Custody
MSNBC Videos Show Death in Police Custody Tasered Man Pleads, “Please Don’t Do This to Me” “Today, MSNBC aired and released an exclusive investigation of the repeated tasing and in-custody death of a Virginia man who was taken to a hospital for medical care by police, reported and led by MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari…
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Students and Professors at Mo. School of Journalism Say They Played a Role in Calling Out the Racist Climate on Campus
Columnists Call Football Team’s Threatened Strike Historic “I have lived in Columbia and been at the university for almost 18 years,” Cynthia Frisby, an associate professor in the Missouri School of Journalism, wrote in a Facebook posting reprinted Sunday in Missourian, which serves the University of Missouri-Columbia. “During this time, I have been called the n-word…
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Ben Carson Swings Back at Media Amid Background Probe
Tales of West Point Offer, Violent Past Challenged Ben Carson received a one-two punch from news media outlets on Friday, with CNN and Politico challenging parts of his biography. But as the day progressed, Politico’s big story — that the Republican presidential candidate had admitted to fabricating a scholarship offer from West Point — was…
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White Texas Man Says Police Demanded to See His ID for No Reason and Then Used Taser on Him
And Now, a Case of “Sitting While White” “Bland Got Off Easy,” Columnist Writes of Tasered Man “This video aired on Fox4 last night,” editorial writer Tod Robberson wrote Tuesday for the Dallas Morning News under the headline “Walking while black, sitting while white, and questions of appropriate use of force.” “It shows a man…
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Black School Dean in Texas Suspects She Was Stopped by Police for ‘Walking While Black’
Video of Saturday Morning Encounter Prompts a Debate Was the dean of a Texas journalism school on her morning walk caught “walking while black”? Or is she drawing racial implications where none exist? Dorothy Bland, dean of the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas, believes the former and wrote a column…