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White Writers Join N-Word Debate
Wise”>” ‘You Don’t Get It; You’re White’ . . . Doesn’t Work for Me” White writers are coming forward to say they cannot sit on the sidelines in the debate over who can use the “N-Word,” if anyone. The latest is Mike Wise, Washington Post sports columnist, who responded in Friday’s printed Post, “I deserve…
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Is Don Lemon a Journalist or a Pundit?
CNN Pumps Up Don Lemon Some Debate Whether Commentaries Are Appropriate CNN weekend anchor Don Lemon is getting a temporary prime-time slot on CNN as some journalists debate whether the network’s most visible journalist of color is acting appropriately by simultaneously ramping up his role as a commentator. “It’s going to be amazing. You’re going…
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Why Blacks Loved John F. Kennedy
<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…
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Journalism Fail: Michigan Voters Elect Felon
Journalism Fail Media Missed It: Winning Candidate Served Time for Murder “We’ve been hearing the warnings for years now,” Vincent Duffy, chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, wrote Thursday. “At journalism conferences, in the trades, and amongst ourselves we’ve heard some variation of this: ‘If newsrooms keep cutting reporters, while demanding higher story…
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Columnist Calls Gagging Over Bill de Blasio’s Interracial Family ‘Conventional’
In the end, it did not seem to matter whether Richard Cohen, the Washington Post columnist, was a victim of poor wording and poor editing. His past spoke more loudly. Cohen, 72, has been a columnist at the Post since 1976, more than enough time to have built up a reservoir of comments viewed as…
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US Media Use American to Show Philippines Typhoon Tragedy
One of the most powerful storms to have ever made landfall dominated news coverage over Veterans Day, with news outlets chasing as many angles as they could in the Philippines tragedy, including first-person accounts, where to send aid, the connection to climate change and, no doubt, finding an American face to place on the story.…
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Handing Out Instructions for the Next Heartbreak
Heartbreak refers to the end of a romance, the grief or disappointment over a lost love. There is no how-to manual for heartbreak, no guide to prepare one for the searing emotions of pain and loss. In The Root’s continuing spoken-word series, Speaking Truth, we introduce Kristiana Rae Colón, a poet, playwright, actor, MC and…
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Miami Herald Reporter Freed in Venezuela
U.S. of “Enormous Assistance” Despite Frosty Relations Venezuela released Miami Herald reporter Jim Wyss after nearly 48 hours in custody, the Miami Herald reported. World Editor John Yearwood, who went to Venezuela to help secure Wyss’ release, messaged Journal-isms from Caracas, “There’s no question that the release would not have happened this quickly without the…
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Don Lemon Explains His Position on Stop-and-Frisk
Don Lemon Protests, “I Am Not Supporting Stop-and-Frisk” CNN Anchor Reviled for Commentary on Joyner Radio Show CNN anchor Don Lemon, reviled on social media for a commentary headlined, “STOP and FRISK: Would You Rather Be Politically Correct or Safe and Alive?” told Journal-isms categorically Wednesday, “I am not supporting stop-and-frisk” and said his remarks…