The media in black and white. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Everette E. Dennis and Edward C. Pease, editors.
• Authors: Dennis, Everette E
• Editors: Dennis, Everette E; Pease, Edward C
• Contents: Preface; Part I Reviewing the American Melting Pot 1. Seething in Silence The News in Black and White; Ellis Cose "For reporters, race can be a treacherous subject, raising questions that; go to the heart of the journalist's craft, " observes the author, a Newsweek; contributing editor and former Media Studies Center fellow. "Today; though we live in a world that is increasingly multicultural, much of; conventional journalism remains fixated on the lives of the white and the; wealthy." The result, he says, is tension in the newsroom, the news product; and the news consumer. 2. Reconciling Race and Reality; Manning Marable The 30 years since the zenith of the civil rights movement have brought; a "paradox of desegregation, " contends the author, chairman of Columbia; University's African-American research center and author of numerous; books on race in America. Improvements aside, "U.S. race relations; in the 1990s have been unambiguously negative, " he writes. "Media; film and educational institutions have a decisive role to play in overturning; America's pervasive images of inequality."; Part II Covering America 3. Immigration, the Press and the New Racism; John J. Miller "Immigrants have always made Americans uneasy, " as the associate director; of the Center for the New American Community in Washington; points out. That uneasiness is growing in the 1990s as new waves of; illegal immigrants spill over the borders and are accused of a range of; social ills. "The media can't do anything about that. What the media can; do, however, is exacerbate or ease these worries. It all comes down to the; quality of reporting on immigrant issues." 4. African Americans According to TV News; Robert M. Entman "We have all heard that sensationalism and entertainment values are on; the rise in TV news, " writes a Northwestern University researcher. "My; studies indicate these trends aren't simply professional embarrassments; and frustrations for journalists. They may also be making urban America; less governable, deepening the chasm of misunderstanding and distrust; between blacks and whites." 5. From Bad to Worse The Media's Framing of Race and Risk; Oscar H. Gandy Jr. Everyone knows that bad news drives journalism, but the press disproportionately; frames stories about blacks as bad news, a University of; Pennsylvania media scholar finds in a pilot study he conducted. "To the; extent that the media emphasize the ways in which the distribution of; social and economic risks breaks down along racial lines, " he suggests; "they have helped to tear us apart." 6. Covering the Invisible "Model Minority"; William Wong Things are looking up in terms of how the press covers America's diverse; new Asian community, writes the author, a former columnist for; the Oakland Tribune. "TV coverage of Asian Americans remains spotty; and sensationalized, but print coverage, while retaining some of the old; polar good-bad images, has become increasingly nuanced, textured and; true to life." 7. In the South Press, Courts and Desegregation Revisited; Dale Thorn Forty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the fight over racial; segregation has flared up again, with an ironic twist back then, blacks; sued to enter white colleges; today they are fighting to keep black colleges; open. "Amid the gaffes and stereotypes by the media, there has; been a real dearth of relatively simple, interpretive, what-it-means reporting; on the South's desegregation story, " complains a Louisiana State; University journalism professor. 8. Coloring the Crack Crisis; Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell Coverage of America's "drug wars" has been marked by racism, contend; the authors of a new book on how network television reports on; cocaine. "Journalism's discovery of crack in late 1985 signaled the beginning; of a period of frenzied coverage in which the race and class; contours of the cocaine problem established in the early 1980s would be; almost completely reconfigured, " they find; Part III Issues, Debates and Dilemmas 9. Are the Media Really "White"?; Andrew Hacker If Ebony is a "black" magazine, is the New Republic "white"? asks a; Queens College political scientist and author. White journalists and media; organizations don't see race as an essential feature of their identities; but for blacks, as the author points out, "the dominant media are most; certainly white. To their eyes, the mainstream media speak for a white; nation, which expects all citizens to conform to its ways." 10. Warping the World Media's Mangled Images of Race; Jannette L. Dates and Edward C. Pease "There is good reason for minorities to think their perspectives are at; best warped by the media or, worse, not heard at all, " reflect the acting; communication dean at Howard University and the co-editor. "In the; year that saw a black man elected president of South Africa, there is; irony in the fact that apartheid still rules the information age in America." 11. Pop Culture, "Gangsta Rap" and the "New Vaudeville"; Paul Delaney America's image of blacks and their own self-image is closely tied to; how they are portrayed in news and entertainment, writes the author, a; former New York Times editor who now heads the journalism department; at the University of Alabama. "There is strong objection to many of the; roles and images transmitted including the clown image of television; sitcoms''new vaudevillians, ' but particularly the messages of gangsta; rappers about women as'bitches' and'hos, ' and about guns and violence; and cops." 12. Racial Naming; Everette E. Dennis To paraphrase the poet, What's in a name? In theory, substance should; be vastly more important than labeling, but, as the co-editor points out; language questions are intensely sensitive in the arena of race in America; "Black" or "African American"? "Native American" or "Indian"? "To; the extent that nit-picking over language interferes with coverage of vital; racial and ethnic issues and problems, this debate may be counterproductive, "; he concludes. But it refuses to go away; Part IV A Media Industry Status Report 13. On-Ramps to the Information Superhighway; Adam Clayton Powell III So far, at least, the electronic world of tomorrow looks pretty white; reflects a former broadcaster and technology expert. "Future archaeologists; studying the documentary record of the present, would have reason; to conclude that people of color were bypassed by the information superhighway, "; he says. "Maybe it just passed over black and Latino communities; much as Manhattan's West Side Highway passes overhead on its; way through Harlem neighborhoods." 14. Newspapers' Quest for Racial Candor; Sig Gissler "Race it is America's rawest nerve and most enduring dilemma, " reflects; the author, a former newspaper editor and journalism professor at; Columbia University. "From birth to death, race is with us, defining; dividing, distorting." Few social institutions are as tormented by this; dilemma day in and day out as are newspapers, he says, reporting on; efforts by two metropolitan dailies to come to grips with the issue. 15. !Ya Viene Atzlan! Latinos in U.S. Advertising; Lisa Penaloza "In the advertising world, the representation of minorities has been a topic; of interest that has waxed and waned since the civil rights movement, "; writes a University of Illinois advertising professor. "Yet, so much has; changed in the last 20 years that to view minorities in advertising solely in; terms of inclusions in'mainstream' media is to miss much of it." 16. (Re)Imagining America; John Phillip Santos "As the United States m
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.2308; Mass media and race relations -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351303460
• Related ISBNs: 9781351303477; 9781351303453; 9781351303484
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