He said:
Forget about the fact that CNN got wrong the information they said they had. Just explain to me precisely what news value exists in the adjective "dark skinned." What exactly that's newsworthy is communicated in that phrase? A dark-skinned individual could be my swarthier Italian relatives or the Ethiopian that won the Boston Marathon before it was bombed on Monday and everyone in between.Watch his full report after the jump:
No, that's not the purpose of that phrase. That phrase is not there to convey journalism. What 'dark-skinned' indicates is aha, all you folks who thought it was a bad Muslim who did this, you were right.
Because, of course, let's be honest, that is the subtext that says all of this.
But our job, our job in the media is not to flatter those knee-jerk presumptions for the sake of momentary titilation, it's to wrestle that to the ground and get the facts right.
2 comments:
He's right.
CNN should know [do] better.
growing up I always thought CNN was the epitome of news journalism; it was on cable (which we couldn't afford),it was referenced in movies and on the Simpons so it must be the BEST EVER. Now I see that its a shitty pop culture repacking factory that wastes time is also just after rating and money like any other business. They need to gtfo
Post a Comment