Friday, July 24, 2009

White Cop, Black Professor, Bi-Racial President: An Explosive Media Combination

Questioning the media’s priorities is a full time occupation for online denizens - and an undeniably important one, as media coverage shapes our views. The complex tensions between the press and online commentariat, the symbiosis between content producers and consumers, newsmakers and opinion-makers, the gradual morphing of one into the other, these are the defining characteristics of the modern political era. In that vein, it’s worth looking at the story of the moment, the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr…

Topics: obama, race, gates, matt-lauer, racial-profiling

FNC News Break: Prez Blames Media for Cops Remark Dustup

Fox News Channel’s Mike Emanuel has a significant new development in the Obama vs. Cambridge Police story. Evidently White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told him that President Obama regrets they way the media has reacted to his pronouncement that the police acted “stupidly,” despite also claiming he doesn’t know all the facts behind the Henry Louis Gates incident.

Topics: obama, gates