Apparently someone actually believed that getting Obama into office was the equivalent of some small city winning the rights of the next Olympics. In other words, Blacktown, USA was about to become interesting to mainstream media beyond racism stories.
I guess that turned out well.
“As a group, African Americans attracted relatively little attention in the U.S. mainstream news media during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency — and what coverage there was tended to focus more on specific episodes than on examining how broader issues and trends affected the lives of blacks generally, according to a year-long study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and its Social and Demographic Trends Project.
From early 2009 through early 2010, the biggest news story related to African Americans was the controversy triggered by the arrest last summer of a prominent black Harvard University professor by a white Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer. It accounted for nearly four times more African American-related coverage than did either of two biggest national “issue” stories covered by the mainstream media during the same period – the economy and health care.”
So if Fox News (Faux News for some of y’all) is racist, what does that make the rest of mainstream media?
