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The Deteriorating Media - Nothing But Yellow Journalism
August 28th, 2007
The media’s performance has been abysmal in recent years. From refusing to challenge Bush on his obviously false claims in the run up to the Iraq war, and basically acting as the White House Press office; to CBS “tarting up” the news as Dan Rather described the decision to bring on Katie Couric; to Rather himself destroying what I believe to be a truthful argument, that G.W. Bush largely skipped out on his national guard service during Vietnam, by knowingly using fabricated evidence to produce an “I got’ya” moment; to the obsessive Hollywood Blond Bimbo coverage and general celebrity pabulum that passes for so-called news.
One of the most disconcerting areas of media monkey business is its manner of selectiveness in determining which missing persons to cover; that selectiveness being based on prettiness and race.
It is undeniable that nearly every missing person story that becomes a national craze are (mostly blond) attractive white women or adorable white girls.
A blogger named Deidra is letting us know that there are also black women and girls who are Missing But Not Forgotten.
We know there’s only so much time for so many missing persons stories to be covered in the national news, though there’d be more time if so much air wasn’t devoted to repeating the same celebrity tripe throughout the day; but why are only white women important? It’s apparent by the fact that even blond “attractive” white women going to court are way more important than black women who are missing and feared dead, as seen by how MSNBC bumped an interview with police about the disappearance of Stepha Henry because they had to do play-by-play coverage of the important story that was Parish Hilton arriving at a court house.
Watch the clip below for The Original Stepha Henry Store for the 5 minutes Fox did cover it - I had problems with this video constantly pausing. Don’t know if it was the video or my computer. But I got through the main part of the story okay.
Petition for media to cover missing black women like they do missing white women
Listen to this Commentary - I don’t agree with some of his statements at the end; but the media analysis was good.
In line with my philosophy of giving credited where credit is due: Though I despise the loud mouth, obnoxious, hen pecking, undignified antics of Nancy Grace, and would gladly stomp on her larynx in a way that would make Albert Haynesworth proud in order to quiet her cackling; it has to be noted that she routinely covers black missing women and children; and does so far and away above any other national media program that I know of.
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I agree. I’ve signed the petition and will pass it on. Nancy Grace is a hard one to listen to - glad to know she is providing some coverage to missing black women.
I came by a little late, I was just about to say the same thing as AJ. But short of Nancy Grace, you wouldn’t know that there is a single Black woman missing in this country.
Yeah AJ, Nance Grace is something else.
Shelia, black women don’t count. They come after dogs in the pecking order.
The sad truth is that mainstream media caters to the audience, and if the research tells them that viewers watch stories involving missing white women… That what you’ll see. Mainstream journalism has more to do with ratings than important issues these days. But thanks to the Internet, there are other ways to get the word out.