Jasmyne A. Cannick, a columnist, issued a challenge to the Black Press last week with her column “What the hell is going on with the Black Press?”
https://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2014/05/13/black-press-mia-on-sterling-exclusives/
She stated that the Black Press should have demanded Donald Sterling and his family come to them first, since his offense was against the Black community and the Black Press represents, as well as speaks for and to the Black community. The Black Press should have demanded it, and by not doing so not only lost out on the headline story, but also the advertising dollars as well to the so-called major media. Cannick talked about the Sterlings but she should have included V. Stiviano too. She went to the White Press.
I’m looking forward to hearing the response from the Black Press, but I would like to take it a bit further and ask What the Hell is going on with the Black community as well as the Black Press nationally when it comes to Black on Black violence?
Why aren’t BET, Radio-One, TV-One, the NNPA, and whatever other Black Media groups out there working together.
For example why isn’t there a Black journalist representing the NNPA or the Black Media as a whole stationed among the White House journalism corp. Surely 200 plus papers and two cable TV networks can afford to pay one reporter to feed information to the rest of the Black media, so that anything of importance to the Black community we get it first hand and from a Black prospective.
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