Thursday, November 3, 2011

Black males and the news

Most news stories about African-American men involve criminal activity and sports. In Pittsburgh, an analysis found that the largest block of news stories involving black men and youth were about crime - 86% of the news broadcasts and 37% of the newspaper stories.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Zebras are racist!

Why do they have more white stripes!

That be RAYCIST!

rjp said...

Paula Poindext of UT, what a piece ….

http://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/case.asp?n=03-04-00806-CV&s=TX&d=40641

She teaches a course titled: “African Americans and the Media”

And she is still an associate professor a decade later.
http://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/paula-poindexter

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paula.poindexter@austin.utexas.edu
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2504A Whitis Ave., Austin, TX 78712-0115