Eric Deggans
Apr. 4, 2013
7:06 am
It may have been the the oddest 90 minutes of my media-watching life courtesy of Twitter, where hot-button issues such as race, prejudice and media can quickly turn toxic in 140-character bursts.
The first real sign of trouble came on Tuesday evening from Tim Graham, an official at the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center and Newsbusters.org. Though we don’t agree on much politically, he is one of the few conservatives willing to have regular conversations with me about media, so I was a little surprised to see this note from him on news that former Democratic political operative Karen Finney would host a weekend show for MSNBC.:
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Andrew Beaujon
Jan. 23, 2013
1:43 pm
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David Griner
Jan. 9, 2013
7:15 am
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Jim Romenesko
Aug. 4, 2011
9:56 am
Arkansas Times
Managing editor
Frank Fellone says the paper has used race in
the column "for years and years," and that the newsroom standard is "to use all available information provided by the police." The Democrat-Gazette's policy is "at odds with the conventions of many other news outlets, which avoid racial or ethnic identifiers unless they're important or, in some cases, if victims provide detailed descriptions," writes Lindsey Millar of the Arkansas Times. When asked if he had a sense that his paper's standard for using racial information in crime reports was unconventional compared to other newsrooms, Fellone told Millar: "I don't know."
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Jim Romenesko
June 8, 2011
4:23 pm
Chicago Tribune |
Chicago Now
Chicago's recent
downtown "flash mob" attacks have made the front-pages and led local TV newscasts, but
Mary Schmich points out that what "you haven't read in the Tribune or seen explicitly stated by most of the official media [is that] the young men were black." She quotes a reader:
I can't imagine that if a gang of white teenagers went to the South Side of Chicago and began attacking African-Americans including a 68-year-old that the race card would be left out of your coverage. ... I see a media double standard here.
Schmich's view:
I'm ambivalent about the omission of the attackers' race in the news accounts, but I think I would have decided to leave it out too.
As an editor pointed out when I asked about it, the crimes don't appear to be racially motivated. There's no sign the criminals picked victims because they were of a certain race. They picked them because they had certain stuff.
Former Chicago Sun-Times columnist
Dennis Byrne wants the media to identify the race of the aggressors
and victims. "It is information that we all need to help understand and solve the problem. It's a symptom of a hurt crying for a cure," he writes.
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Oct. 21, 2010
9:29 am
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Al Tompkins
Sep. 23, 2010
2:13 pm
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Al Tompkins
Sep. 7, 2010
9:24 am
In 1997, the U.S. Department of Agriculture settled a federal discrimination case filed by black farmers. The government had promised $1.25 billion to be paid out in sums of up to $50,000 for qualified farmers, but the Senate has since … Read more
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Bill Krueger
Aug. 18, 2010
10:20 am
Well before the NAACP publicly called out the tea party last week for having racist elements in its ranks, questions about the racial attitudes of tea party supporters had been popping up in news stories, broadcasts and online forums. But … Read more
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Latoya Peterson
Aug. 18, 2010
9:40 am
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