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Reporters Film What San Bernardino Couple Left Behind “This is one of the most bizarre moments in cable-news history,” a Vanity Fair headline proclaimed Friday. The story was labeled “Ethics,” and the title was “TV Reporters Bumble Their Way Through San Bernardino Shooter’s Apartment.” The Atlantic called it “A baffling, surreal scene” and asked, in…

Networks Stay Live for Latest Mass Shooting Mariel Garza, an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Times, was among the first to comment on the mass shooting Wednesday that left at least 14 people dead and 17 wounded in San Bernardino, Calif., the nation’s deadliest since December 2012. Then, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook…

Media Outlets Again Accused of Racial Double Standards “Media rhetoric so often lives in shades of gray, yet when it comes to the terms used to describe people in crime stories, its true colors may be black and white,” Ryan Grenoble, a news editor at the Huffington Post, wrote Monday. “Take the words employed over…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…