On Monday's broadcast of PBS's "Newshour, quote--"Martin, who was black, was on his way to a convenience store in a mostly white gated community when George Zimmerman, who is white, shot and killed him after a disputed altercation."
Zimmerman isn't white, the "gated community" is less than 50% white, and the condos average $120,000 per. This is hardly what most of us assume the media is trying to get out as they keep hammering the 'black youth killed in gated community' message.
The segment then turned into an attack on gun rights, or, an attack on the Bill of Rights, or the Constitution, as we would be labeling it, if the media supported the Second Amendment.
article here. Video here.
Here is a response from PBS in regards to Zimmerman's race, seemingly, the media is now going to work the word white, into Hispanic, when it serves their race template.
Zimmerman isn't white, the "gated community" is less than 50% white, and the condos average $120,000 per. This is hardly what most of us assume the media is trying to get out as they keep hammering the 'black youth killed in gated community' message.
The segment then turned into an attack on gun rights, or, an attack on the Bill of Rights, or the Constitution, as we would be labeling it, if the media supported the Second Amendment.
article here. Video here.
Here is a response from PBS in regards to Zimmerman's race, seemingly, the media is now going to work the word white, into Hispanic, when it serves their race template.
So what’s up at PBS? The day after Ifill’s “white” moment, NewsHour Executive Producer Linda Winslow sent an e-mail to the program’s editorial staff on how to handle racial identification in the Martin case. According to NewsHour spokeswoman Anne Bell, the memo said that mentioning the race of the central characters in the case is “not necessary” unless “it’s important to the specific story development.” The thinking behind that policy, Winslow pointed out, is that the NewsHour furnishes photographs of both Martin and Zimmerman, thus providing enough information on their respective races.
In cases where it’s necessary to describe Zimmerman, said Winslow, he is to be classified as “white and Hispanic.”
The reason that the NewsHour lapsed on Monday night, says Bell, was that one of the editors “who was usually involved in the story” wasn’t on hand. There’s no plan for a clarification or correction, says Bell. (No other human at PBS news knows that Zimmerman isn't white?) The audience is left with the original description from Monday, there should be a correction.
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