In a study of “The Big Five” Sunday television news shows, Asian-American think tank,ChangeLab, found that Asian Americans are simply missing from the conversation, even when the shows are discussing issues that are of interest and relevance to Asian Americans.
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Source: www.nbcnews.com
Asian Americans are 5.3% of the U.S. population.
The other group missing from talk shows is Native Americans who are 1.2% of the U.S. population.
Hunger Games
“Residents of the wealthy capitol watch on television as the competitors tear each other apart, entertaining them while confirming the need for subjugation and segregation of the districts.”
Source: www.racefiles.com
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said that his fear was that African Americans have been integrated into a burning building.
HT Steven Riley @mixed_race
“The library at Washington University in St. Louis is building a digital repository called “Documenting Ferguson.” The collection will provide the community with a space to save the media they’ve captured since the death of Michael Brown.
The online collection is open for anyone to contribute material.The archive will accept photos, audio, video, and written stories.”
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Source: news.stlpublicradio.org
The article on The Root hit me hard;
Reject the “He was a good kid” or “He was a criminal” narrative and lift up the “Black lives matter” narrative.Those who knew him say Brown was a good kid. But that’s not why his death is tragic. His death isn’t tragic because he was on his way to college the following week. His death is tragic because he was a human being and his life mattered. The good-kid narrative might provoke some sympathy, but what it really does is support the lie that as a rule black people, black men in particular, have a norm of violence or criminal behavior. The good-kid narrative says that this kid didn’t deserve to die because his goodness was an exception to the rule. This is wrong. This kid didn’t deserve to die, period. Similarly, reject the “He was a criminal” narrative surrounding the convenience store robbery because even if Brown did steal some cigars and have a scuffle with the shopkeeper, that is still not a justification for his killing. All black lives matter, not just the ones we deem to be “good.”
It caused me to think back about why, during the George Zimmerman case, I did not debate nor defend against accusations that Trayvon was a “thug.” Here we are again with Michael Brown, and there are folks trying to posture Michael as deserving of death because he was not a “good kid. “
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Source: blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com
Thank you @XenaBb7 for the HT
This pervasive and not-so-subtle media bias is right in front of your eyes….
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
Two 12-year-old girls inspired by Internet horror stories are accused of luring a girl into a wooded area near Milwaukee and stabbing the victim 19 times.
All three are 12 years old and attended same middle school.
See on www.cnn.com
“From January 1 through June 30 of 2013 (26 weeks) ChangeLab, an Asian American-led racial justice laboratory and the publisher of this blog, conducted a study of what are known as the Sunday political shows in order to learn what they’re saying about Asian Americans. The study focused on what are known as the Big Five Sunday shows: Face the Nation (CBS), Fox News Sunday (Fox), Meet the Press (NBC), State of the Union (CNN), and This Week With George Stephanopoulos (ABC).
In addition, we also studied two MSNBC political talk programs, Melissa Harris Perry and Up with Chris Hayes/Steve Kornacki. Both follow the general format of the Big Five, but run two-hours each on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and serve a somewhat different market, both in terms of size and demographics. For these reasons, we’ll report on them separately.
Those MSNBC shows do a lot more talking about Asians and race in general than the Big Five. But what they have to say is often neither very flattering nor credible”
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90% of the news in the newspaper and on television is negative because that’s what we pay attention to.
See on bigthink.com
Is violence on the streets caused by violence in video games? Do hip-hop lyrics increase misogynistic and homophobic behavior? Are teens promiscuous because of what they see in movies?
See on bookstep.com
“Glen Ford, Exec. Editor of Black Agenda Report, talks about helping create black radio news. He says that news media creates leaders by deciding what events are important and who is authorized to speak on the importance of those events – October 24, 2013″
See on therealnews.com
