Latest Media Appearances For BlackPerspective.net

February 20th, 2008

Well for one, I was back on NPR’s News and Notes today.

I’m miffed because I asked the engineer if he could hear me from the position I was sitting and distance from the mic, and he told “yeah”. I thought it was obvious that I meant could he hear me well. I clearly don’t come across as loud and my voice as full as the other participants. Had I known I need to be closer, I would have. Different mics are different, and different sound systems intake audio differently; but whatever, you live and you learn.

I’m also annoyed that we didn’t talk about the FISA warrentless wiretapping as I was told that we would. That was the main thing I wanted to talk about.

You can hear the conversation by following this link: www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19199472

We talked about the fake Barack Plagiarism controversy (waste of time in my opinion), Michelle’s statement about being proud for the first time in her adult life, the impact of Black Blogs (I got in an Afrospear shout out) and the 25th anniversary album for Thriller.

Also

In an article that came out early in the month By Raquel Christie, The American Journalism Review interviewed and quoted, among others, a number of Black Bloggers, all who are members of the Afrospear.

Double Whammy
How the Media Missed the Jena Story - Twice

Jena 6 March Curtosey of AJR

I think her title and subtitle are to intimate that the media missed the story initially by not covering it, then by not getting it right when they did.

Funny, I believe she still didn’t get it right for a number of reason, that I will not go into now; but maybe I’ll do a review of it at some point.

What annoys me personally is that she interviewed me for 45 minutes, then did not use one word of the interview in the piece. Even right before the piece ran, one of the editors was doing fact checking and called me to confirm quotes, then only quoted me visa via the press release I and Zoe of the UltraViolet Underground wrote, that I quoted for a post.

So she quoted me, quoting me. I’m glad that portion of the press release was actually a part of it that I wrote, and that I wrote alone. Would have been kind of messed up if I’d gotten credit for what Zoe wrote or something.

Thanks for running up my cell phone bill for nothing!

Damn right I’m complaining, this is all valid stuff to complain about.

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One Response to “Latest Media Appearances For BlackPerspective.net”

  1. MorganLighter on February 21st, 2008 6:03 pm | link

    Hey, what do you expect from the media - even if it is NPR - who lean so far to the left that one more step and they’d fall of the planet.
    Maybe you could get a gig on Rush Limbaugh’s EIB show. Now that’s something I’d pay money for. Truly I would.
    Peace.

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