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It was. She pointed out that the press corps is overwhelmingly white.
Right. I am agreeing with your post above. "If you don't like, guess how we feel?" gestures can be effective.
It was. She pointed out that the press corps is overwhelmingly white.
Yet another example of white politicians freaking out when Black politicians merely suggest doing the same thing white politicians do all the time.
But hey, if Republicans want to mandate that politicians take questions without selecting by race, that's a huge net win.
Even as the point, she did it in a dumb way.
Choose a black reporter for a 1 on 1 interview, and then say I chose X because they are one of the few black reporters in the press core and I really want to encourage more people of color have access to politicians in order to bring diversity of color and opinion to the press as it lacks diversity.
She could've spun it as a positive choice instead of a negative announcement where we aren't granting interviews to white reporters. And maybe she didn't do in in the most negative way, I haven't tried to follow the specific details of this story because, to me, it's not that big of a deal and I don't live there.
maybe, I didn’t really follow too closely because it’s such a wgaf story, but I feel like the first I heard of it was post-clarification as I believe I knew the context for the interview to only be for the anniversary period when I heard it first reported to me
either way, seems to be more handwringing from the right about the lack of access that Ticker Carlson had to interview the mayor (has he ever tried?) than the fact that the entire group that typically gets access to the mayor is white
It's either OK or it's not.
It's either OK or it's not.
This.
And this.
Sure. But it’s also not OK to equate this with maintaining a disproportionately white press corps. It’s shitty for white guys to perpetually whine about small slights in a system that greatly benefits them. The real complaint here isn’t that the mayor didn’t call on white reporters. The real complaint is that the mayor is a Black lesbian.
It's ok.
Of course Junebug posts about this silly issue of a white supremacist rag suing a black woman that has zero to do with the Supreme Court while this entire thread is demonstrative of his entire bullshit theory of jurisprudence being shown for what it is - extreme Christian zealotry activism. What a supreme asshole.
If it was a policy, no. Since it was a one time thing to draw attention to inequity in journalism, it’s fine.
Simple question. Why does one BIPOC press conference bothers you more than the millions of all white press conferences that have happened in this country?
Journalists tend to be “liberal” as a consequence of being educated.
Trumpublicans have increasingly distanced themselves from people who can think critically.
It’s not shocking that the party that manipulated the media to start a war in The Middle East, let a journalist, Judith Miller, go to jail over illegal leaks, on up through Trump declaring journalists “the enemy of the people,” would get less support and fewer donations from the journalists than democrats. The GOP has treated the media with disdain for decades so out of self preservation journalists turn to the opposition.
Turn to the opposition...while still contorting themselves into both sides neutrality false equivalency BS.
My question remains unanswered.
This is a good time to remember that these guys are full of bad faith white victimhood arguments that have little basis in reality.
I will say that these posts are a tacit admission that Republicans don’t do actual journalism.
I would be in favor of two political parties that believed in searching for and reporting the truth and therefore journalism was attractive to people on both sides.
What political test would you use to ensure your ideal “ideological diversity?” What rules would you put in place to government journalism to ensure equal representation?