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Media bias on display at WashPost in Coretta Scott King funeral reporting
Tim Graham at Newsbusters reports:
The Washington Post downplayed the Wellstone-funeral elements of yesterday’s funeral for Coretta Scott King. The front-page article by Darryl Fears had a bland celebratory headline, and as the article jumped off the front page, Fears claimed "The six-hour service, held in a lavish black church in the wealthy, majority-black Atlanta suburb of DeKalb County, seemed to strive mightily to project a theme of inclusion and the setting aside of political differences."
Riiiiiight. His evidence? "Politically charged" speakers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton did not speak. But he soon noted Joseph Lowery’s crack about weapons of mass destruction. "Still, political tensions occasionally burst through the veneer of reconciliation." But a few paragraphs later, Fears included Sharpton among the "civil rights legends" in attendance:
A Who’s Who of civil rights legends also spoke: Lowery; Dorothy Height, chairman of the National Council of Negro Women; former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young; and poet Maya Angelou. Even more attended: former Democratic presidential candidates Jackson and Sharpton; NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon; and Gordon’s predecessor, Kweisi Mfume.
This is also a weird paragraph because Bruce Gordon is hardly a legend, since he’s only headed the NAACP since last June (not to mention Mfume). These men are leaders, but not "legends" any more than anyone else who’s led an interest group in the last decade.
Relatively new White House reporter Michael Fletcher approaches the Bush angle of the memorial, with a headline ("Bush Reaches Out" ) noting that the NAACP’s Gordon praised Bush for attending. Fletcher made a point of how Bush "all but ignored" liberal black leaders.
Read the whole thing.
I know – this is terribly surprising, isn’t it? The article ignores so much history between President Bush and ‘black leaders’ it’s really hard to know where to start – but Graham does a good job of cutting through the whitewashing (no pun intended) of the Post piece to give us the full story.
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Excellent Blog! I stumbled across your blog on nicedoggie.net. I must say that knowing my adopted state of North Carolina produced such an intelligent, witty, and beautiful blogger makes me proud. Keep up the great work and big time kudos from a fellow North Carolinian who left the dark side too (during college) to come into the light.
Yes, the Post’s report failed in some areas but good that Rev. Lowery didn’t pull any punches.
“Yes, the Post’s report failed in some areas but good that Rev. Lowery didn’t pull any punches.”
Did you like ‘together at last.’?
The only black people bush knew while growing up cleaned his father’s houses. And it still appears that he treats people of color as hired help. Peace
Slanderous. ..
Funny steve, how many blacks do you think the average limosine liberal knows or has grown up with?
Baklava, anytime you have no comeback you say “slanderous”, rebut instead. bush is a phoney who puts his pants on one leg at a time just like you. As far as who else in the monied class is a phoney, I have no argument if you answer “most”. The shame of it is that most of you are more likley to be cleaning one of the wealthy’s homes rather then owning it. Peace
If I had a comeback would you for once address it (as never before)?
That’s what enquiring minds here (who are conservative) want to know.
I do believe President Bush has put more people of color in positions of power than any president in history.
I would agree with you Sanity, but I think the best part is that he has done so unintentionally. He just picked the best people for the job, and some of them happened to have a better tan than others.
To me, that is the path to ending racism. Ignoring the race based groups and continue to be color blind is the solution.
blogagog, every appointment bush makes is politically motivated. Most of these people are “up by their own bootstrap” people who have far too much self-esteem and no common sense. It’s dangerous to believe your own hype and Powell and Condi fell into that trap. Peace
Projecting your own racist beliefs onto others belittles us all, Steve. Join the color-blind Americans. It’s never too late.