The mainstream news media, too much of its reporting/commentating flawed and insipid, may continue for a while to follow wrinkles, small or big and mostly frivolous, and only if those wrinkles of this race drama register on their radar, such as the alcoholic content of the beer of the Obama-Gates-Crowley confab and try to make something of it, like the insipid humor of CNN’s Campbell Brown’s farce yesterday evening, July 31.
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This Blog’s Wrapup of Cambridge–Obama–Gates–Crowley
Friday, July 31st, 2009Tell the News Media to Get It Right
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Rabid in Manhattan
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009… Also in Queens and the Bronx
Health E-News – NYC Gov. on Jul 21, 2009 – Six rabid animals – all raccoons—have been identified in New York City this year. Four were found in the Bronx, one in Manhattan (near Inwood Hill Park), and one in Queens (Long Island City). Raccoons are the most commonly reported rabid animals in New York City.
Considering the breadth of local broadcast news coverage in the last few days, one would think that an  animal story of this magnitude would be popping up on the screen.
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No direct relation to the ones identified in NYC boroughs
Not so (so far).
Sonia Sotomayor – Cutting to the Chase
Sunday, July 19th, 2009I watched and listened to some of the hearings. I did not wretch. Same for a few on-air news analyses and commentaries (CNN, Channel 13-PBS, assorted ABC, NBC, et. al. affiliates and nationals). I should have checked the local news broadcast in Peoria but didn’t have the presence of mind (but it’s coming).
Nevertheless, I did not wretch.
I hung in there as long as I could – much, much longer than I did for the Michael Jackson spectacle – until it became clear she would sail through. And then I read New York Times Frank Rich’s column today and realized my mistake. I’m seriously considering a mini-doc now that I know what I missed but it’s not as much of a miss as the mainstream news media. It’s merely a missed opportunity that can be corrected.
Check this excerpt:
“Much of the audience was surely driven away by the sheer boredom of watching white guys incessantly parse the nominee’s “wise Latina†remark. This badgering was their last-ditch effort to prove that Gingrich was right when he called Sotomayor a racist at the start of the nomination process. She confronted that overheated controversy directly. “I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judgment,†Sotomayor testified. “
Read Frank Rich’s New York Times Column here.
The WORD’s Eunji Jang Interviewed by NAM Radio News Anchor/TV Producer Odette Keeley
Saturday, July 11th, 2009Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Resigns Because …
Saturday, July 4th, 2009… there’s a hobgoblin on her tail.
Time for Immigration Reform Is Now
Monday, June 29th, 2009Editor’s Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media, a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country this week to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform.
“This Video Will Piss You Off and Break Your Heart” — Robert Greenwood, Brave New Foundation
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Rethink Afghanistan: Civilian Casualties
Originally published in the WORD as an Op Ed in Byting Words.
Honestly This Time: The Final WORD on Obama-Gates-Crowley
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009Two sentences provide clarity about the driving forces of this particular race drama: If there was a teachable moment in this incident, it could be found in how some powerful white people well beyond Cambridge responded to it. That reaction is merely the latest example of how the inexorable transformation of America into a white-minority country in some 30 years — by 2042 in the latest Census Bureau estimate — is causing serious jitters, if not panic, in some white establishments.”
— Frank Rich, New York Times, Column, August 2, 2009
Click here for his column
Tags:Cambridge incident, Henry Louis Gates, Obama, Sgt. James Crowley
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