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New York Times Failed to Capture Problems Facing Black Press

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New York Times Failed to Capture Problems Facing Black Press

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GEORGE E. CURRY | AFRO

WASHINGTON – Sunday’s front-page story on the Black Press failed to accurately portray the accomplishments of and the depth of the problems facing Black-owned media, according to scholars, Black media owners and editors.

[dropcap]The[/dropcap] Times story was published under the headline, “Pillars of Black Media, Once Vibrant, Now Fighting for Survival.”

Linn Washington, Jr., a professor of journalism at Temple University, said one of the most glaring shortcomings of the article was that of approximately 200 Black-owned newspapers in the United States, no Black editor or publisher was quoted. Nor were any of the leaders of their trade organization, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
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“The failure to note legacies of the historic Black Press in an article purportedly about pillars of Black Media is yet another omission by commission cited as a major failing of mainstream media as far back as the 1968 Kerner Report on race relations in America,” Washington said. “Such omissions perpetuate the misunderstandings underlying the persistence of the ‘race problem’ in America.”

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