Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
Monday, November 10, 2008
The World According to Harry
You gotta read Harry's posts from this week. He's got an interesting post on the Wright Stuff.
He's got the 60 Minutes Obama staff interview.
He's got a brief reflection on the "post-Imus" era. I never thought of it that way, but maybe that was an important turning point.
He's got the 60 Minutes Obama staff interview.
He's got a brief reflection on the "post-Imus" era. I never thought of it that way, but maybe that was an important turning point.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Cheat Sheet
Howard Kurtz has a pretty good summation of where we are at the moment on race, Palin, Rahm, etc.
Mutt in Chief
The first press conference (Friday) represented a lot of different things, but I agree that this little throwaway line was significant in terms of this week's discussion.
I also toss in this article from earlier in the campaign about the thorny issue of Obama's own obvious self-confidence. Most successful politicians are self confident. Is this another subtle way Obama was squeezed, because of his race?
Are those same attitudes somehow evident in this much-discussed post-election dialogue among Newsweek editors?
I also toss in this article from earlier in the campaign about the thorny issue of Obama's own obvious self-confidence. Most successful politicians are self confident. Is this another subtle way Obama was squeezed, because of his race?
Are those same attitudes somehow evident in this much-discussed post-election dialogue among Newsweek editors?
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Strictly for my anchors
So tonight I was watching all of the networks try to cover issues of race. At one point ABC, I think, pointed out how much the electorate had changed since 1976 when 90 percent of the voters were white. Now it's down to like 74 percent.
And suddenly it struck me that Katie was talking to Jeff Greenfield, Brian to Chuck Todd and Charlie to George Stephanopoulos. You know? There was this very keyed-up discussion of race being conducted entirely by white people
I have never liked the "well, why aren't more(or any) of you black?" question ... at least not in certain contexts. I faced it recently in a public setting and it irritated me.
But we have an African-American president, and still the face of network television DOES seem to lag behind. On cable...well, there are experts like Juan Williams and Eugene Robinson, but since the departure of Bernard Shaw, it's not THAT much better. It's one of the ways, I think, in which TV is pretty conservative. In fact, they were all sitting around talking aout how the Republican party has failed to show an inclusive picture of itself, and I kept thinking: you guys are just as far behind as they are.
What do you think about that?
Have the mass media failed, in certain ways, "to look like America?"
And suddenly it struck me that Katie was talking to Jeff Greenfield, Brian to Chuck Todd and Charlie to George Stephanopoulos. You know? There was this very keyed-up discussion of race being conducted entirely by white people
I have never liked the "well, why aren't more(or any) of you black?" question ... at least not in certain contexts. I faced it recently in a public setting and it irritated me.
But we have an African-American president, and still the face of network television DOES seem to lag behind. On cable...well, there are experts like Juan Williams and Eugene Robinson, but since the departure of Bernard Shaw, it's not THAT much better. It's one of the ways, I think, in which TV is pretty conservative. In fact, they were all sitting around talking aout how the Republican party has failed to show an inclusive picture of itself, and I kept thinking: you guys are just as far behind as they are.
What do you think about that?
Have the mass media failed, in certain ways, "to look like America?"
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