GRITtv: What's Missing In Today's Media?
Every week on GRITtv, we discuss the week in news: stories that made a splash, stories that were ignored, stories that were covered well, or stories that were covered badly. This week, guest host Esther Armah is joined by Rosalind McLymont, Editor in Chief of The Network Journal and author of Africa: Strictly Business, The Steady March to Prosperity, Karen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the upcoming Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing, and Akiba Solomon, freelance reporter and author of Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts. They discuss Black History Month and Raina Kelley's Newsweek piece, The Nation's piece on the media-lobbying complex, and Ishmael Reed's New York Times op-ed about the film Precious.
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Brilliant Black Sisters!
Wow! What an amazing 20 mins you gave us with those 4 African Sisters discussing Black History Month and the media. I'm going to go out and get the books they have written. As a Black woman I am hungry for the sight of my community and the diversity of ideas that exist among my people. These were diverse and thought -provoking in their comments.Bring them back soon!
HALF TRUTHS
You are as bad as national news ! You have a man on your show( book about the profits) how says that unemployment is 9.7% THAT IS A LIE ! You know that it is more like 17 or 18% ! Yes he said that some parts of the country are as high as 25% WELL HERE IS THE FACTS WHEN PEOPLE GO OFF UNEMPLOYMENT BENIFITS , YOU ARE CONCIDERED EMPLOYED THIS MAN DIDN'T SAY THAT ! YOU MAY THINK THAT WE ALL SHOULD KNOW THIS , OR WHATEVER!! YOU DIDN'T SAY THIS ! SO , YOU LIED AS BAD AS THE PRESIDENT!! YOU NEED TO BE CLEAR ! I WILL TELL EVERY ONE THAT I KNOW , NOT TO WATCH YOUR LIES !! YOUR HALF TRUTHS , YOUR COVER-UPS !! Since I'm on a rampage , I can not stand blacks jamming their "POOR LITTLE ME" BS down my throat ! WE GAVE THEM COLLEGE, WELFARE, MEDICAL,THEY DON'T WORK , BUT THEY ALL DRIVE CADILACS , I DON'T ! I can't afford one , my taxes go to paying for theirs. SO DON'T CRY POOR ME ! I'M SICK OF IT !!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M SICK OF RAISING BLACK BABIES !!!!!! I didn't get free college. I can't even get food stamps ! SCREW THEM ALL ! THINK ABOUT MY COMMENTS THE NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO PUT THESE CRY BABIES ON YOUR SHOW! WE ALL SUFFER , GET OVER IT ! WE DON'T "OWE" THEM A DAMN THING ! THEY NEED TO PAY ME BACK ! THAT IS REALITY ! THINK ABOUT IT !
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