RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media racism in the media during disaster??

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theory9 said:


Also, another way of looking at the issue.

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I can't count the number of times I've walked past couples in broad daylight. The guy will reach to offer a strategically timed protective hug to a female companion the instant I walk by. Such a gesture, I suppose, wards off dark spirits.

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rex said:
Why does it matter what kerry's wife said?

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Because she's a Demoncrat.

Media giant Reuters is facing two more tawdry and potentially costly accusations of bias.
Just weeks after an Asian-American and a black staffer alleged they had endured racial taunts, it was revealed that two other ex-staffers have sued seeking a total of $60 million in damages.

Wenping Tu, a former staffer at subsidiary Loan Pricing Corp. seeks $10 million, claiming she was subjected to racial discrimination and sexual harassment by her boss, leading her to miscarry.

"It's been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."

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the G-man said:
CNN on the French riots:

"It's been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."

I guess they can't say "black"?

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Teen People nixed a story about Hitler-loving teenybopper twins Prussian Blue - amid outrage that the glossy had promised to avoid the words "hate," "supremacist" and "Nazi" in its piece on the racist singing sisters.

A Web-based teaser for the February story originally called the hatemongering duo "aspiring musicians" and compared them to wide-eyed sensations Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

The only hint that 13-year-old Lynx and Lamb Gaede praise Hitler, call the Holocaust an "exaggeration" and count former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke among their fans was a watered-down description of their message as "white pride."

Time's initial response to the protest was the added mention of the girls' white separatist mom, National Vanguard member April Gaede, in the Web-based teaser.

Hours later, the company yanked the entire project.

"During an editorial review of this assignment, we learned that a junior employee made unauthorized assurances to the mother of the Gaede twins regarding the prohibition of certain words in the story," said Time spokeswoman Ali Zalenko.

She said that promise violated company policy, and added an investigation was underway.

A Time source said the interview with the twins was completed, but a final draft of the story had yet to be finished.

"I applaud Time for doing the right thing and realizing this was dangerous," said state Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn). "Why present these two neo-Nazis to the magazine's 1.6 million young readers without any mention they deny the Holocaust? They were going to help them sell more CDs."

The freckled twins from Bakersfield, Calif., call nonwhites "muds" and play a video game called "Ethnic Cleansing." They wear tartan plaid skirts and Hitler smiley face shorts - and croon songs that glorify the Third Reich.

A song called "Sacrifice" praises Hitler deputy Rudolf Hess as "a man of peace. He wouldn't give up, he wouldn't cease. He gave his loyalty to our cause."

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the G-man said:
CNN on the French riots:

"It's been 11 days since two African-American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this."

I guess they can't say "black"?

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San Francisco's Asian community is up in arms over a newspaper column titled "Why I Hate Blacks" that appeared last week in a weekly newspaper geared to Asian Americans, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.

In Kenneth Eng's column for AsianWeek, a paper that bills itself as "The Voice of Asian Americans," the self-described "Asian supremacist" goes through his list of "reasons" why he believes discrimination against African Americans is OK.

"The publication of these racist statements is completely irresponsible and damaging to all our communities," said Gen Fujioka, program director of the Asian Law Caucus. "Not only should there be a retraction but a serious effort to repair the harm caused."

The Chronicle reported that the offensive column has been removed from the paper's Web site, though copies of the paper were still available in the city's news boxes on Monday.

• New NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard took up a flurry of complaints when veteran news anchor Jean Cochran told listeners President Bush was traveling to Africa, the "dark continent." They insisted NPR was sounding racist