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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

Posted by Peter Daou on 07/24 at 09:48 AM

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Predictably, Obama’s One Answer on Race Is Getting More Attention than Health Reform

Summed up on Twitter by Howard Kurtz: GMA and Today both led with Obama slamming Gates arrest. Health care? Zzzz

Topics: media, obama, health-care, race, profiling, health-reform

Posted by Peter Daou on 07/23 at 07:21 AM

Monday, June 29, 2009

Was Sotomayor Out of the Mainstream on White Firefighters?

Patrick writes, “A substantial majority of Americans disagree with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and agree with the majority of the Supreme Court on the question of whether or not white firefighters from the City of New Haven were discriminated against, according to a new CNN/opinion Research Corporation poll.” There’s another angle to this, per Glenn Greenwald...

Topics: race, supreme-court, firefighters, scotus, sotomayor

Posted by Peter Daou on 06/29 at 07:10 PM

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