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Blacks Own Just 10 of 1,348 TV Stations
Black, Asian Broadcast Ownership Dips “Bill O’Reilly can breathe a little easier. “Last week while speaking about the reelection of President Obama, the Fox News commentator said, ‘The white establishment is now the minority,’ ” Joe Flint wrote Wednesday for the Los Angeles Times. “But when it comes to who owns the nation’s TV and…
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BET Scales Back on TJ Holmes' Show
Program to Air Weekly as Ratings Disappoint BET announced Monday that it is scaling back its much-anticipated late-night, half-hour vehicle for T.J. Holmes, the former CNN anchor, from half an hour Monday through Thursday to an hour once a week. The show launched Oct. 1. CEO Debra Lee said last month the show is “designed…
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Right-Wing Media 'Lied' During Campaign
Cozy Ties With GOP Raise Questions of Integrity “On Election Night, I tweeted that Republicans shocked about Mitt Romney’s loss Tuesday should be angry at a conservative media that misled them about the former [Massachusetts] governor’s chances,” Adam Serwer wrote Thursday for Mother Jones. “In the waning days of the race, much of this manifested…
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A Demographic Shellacking?
Results Point to Lesson on News Media Diversity More than an hour before the networks declared Tuesday night that President Obama had been reelected, Chuck Todd delivered a message on MSNBC that should resonate through the news media. “The story of this election is the story of demographics,” Todd said. Speaking of the Republicans, he…
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Cleveland Voters Talk Jobs, Women's Rights
(The Root) — As the afternoon dissolved into evening on Election Day, voters streamed through the doors of Caledonia Elementary School in Cleveland Heights, a suburb of Cleveland. Many willingly took a copy of the Democratic slate into the polls, and many marked the top of the ticket for Barack Obama. They were the beginning…
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Harlem Votes: 'It's a Privilege'
(The Root) — On this Election Day, The Root caught up with voters in the “black mecca” — Harlem, USA. It’s a New York City neighborhood often remembered for its enthusiastic celebration of President Obama’s historic 2008 win and a community that hasn’t leaned Republican since 1984. And from what we could tell on Tuesday,…
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If Obama Wins, Will He Do More for Blacks?
As With Obama, Expectations Come With the Territory President Obama is expected to receive upwards of 90 percent of the African American vote in Tuesday’s election, despite a phenomenon not unknown to other people of color in executive positions, even in the news business: muted disappointment by some that he has not done enough for…
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Souls to the Polls: Early Voting in Cleveland
(The Root) — Neither gloom nor cold nor waits around 90 minutes deterred prospective voters at the Cuyahoga County Board of Election in Cleveland on Sunday, Nov. 4 (dubbed “Souls to the Polls” Day as many congregations headed to vote after church), when more than 2,500 people cast ballots in Ohio’s Democratic stronghold. The wait…
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Black Political Writer Declares for Romney
Most Journalistic Reaction: “Disapproving” Robert Vickers, a black journalist and the political writer at the Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa., gave some readers at least two reasons to disagree with him Friday. He told them his choice for president, and said that person is Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate. “Given that my role here is to…
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Black Publisher Endorses Romney
Rufus Friday Disagrees With Editorial Board The publisher and president of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader became one of few prominent African Americans to publicly support Mitt Romney for president Sunday when the paper’s editorial board disclosed that Rufus M. Friday disagreed with its endorsement of President Obama. “. . . He chose not to use…