OPINION: The Problem With A Color-Conscious Media
By News One May 12, 2009 5:26 pm
From Bob Herbert at the NYTimes.com:
I remember as a young deputy city editor at The Daily News attending my first “sked meeting,” a large gathering of editors held every afternoon to consider which stories would go into the next morning’s paper and how they would be played.
I was sitting at the far end of a conference table from the editor who was conducting the meeting. The News had very seldom had a black person at those gatherings. Mine was the only black face in the room.
One of the stories being pitched was about a baby that had been killed on Long Island. The editor running the meeting was completely relaxed. He was sprawled in his chair and was holding a handful of papers. His legs were crossed.
“What color is that baby?” he asked.
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yeah _ASH_
little black girl go missing and/or are murdered and you dont here about it at all but little precious (white) Caylee Anthony goes missing and i have to hear about it for HALF OF A YEAR!!!!!!!!!
but you let these “white people lovin” negropeans tell it, we both should “get over” it because it is “not that serious” and “it is not 1958″!
2010 NO SELLOUT!!!
i read the full story, and that’s very true. just writing for my college newspaper i’ve realized people are less liely to pick up a paper with a Black person on the front of it.
the Black student association at my school is one of the most active on campus, but my story ideas are constantly getting thrown out. why? because at my university that only has an 8% Black population, papers with Blacks on the front get left sitting in the racks. sad, u say…? no, infuriating.
WE NEED MORE BLACK JOURNALISTS. PERIOD.