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NAACP Blasts Lack of Diversity in Prime Time News
WSJ ^ | 7-7-11 | By Nick Andersen

Posted on 07/07/2011 10:25:35 AM PDT by Red Badger

In a press release issued this morning, the NAACP condemned 24-hour cable news channel CNN for its recently announced prime time news lineup, calling the lack of diversity in its collection of news anchors a “glaring omission.” “The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of African American journalists in prime time news, both on cable and national news shows,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in the statement. “We have come to expect this from the likes of Fox News, but not other networks. While we understand that news is now a 24-hour cycle, most Americans get their news from the morning and evening prime time broadcasts.” The new CNN news lineup, which was announced yesterday, features John King, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett and Piers Morgan. CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The NAACP’s Hollywood Bureau also announced its plans to meet with cable news presidents to address the issue. Hollywood Bureau Executive Director Vic Bulluk was not immediately available for comment.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: Georgia
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1 posted on 07/07/2011 10:25:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Fox news has more black contributors (Juan Williams) than the entire sM, combined.

Too funny


2 posted on 07/07/2011 10:28:44 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law.)
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To: Red Badger

NAACP: Shove up your smelly Obama.

The diversity that is needed in the MSM is reporters that actually have a measurable IQ (and therefore, don’t believe anything a liberal has to say).

Just in case you missed it: Shove it up your smelly Obama.


3 posted on 07/07/2011 10:29:34 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: EQAndyBuzz

And Harris Falkner. YUM!


4 posted on 07/07/2011 10:30:47 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Red Badger
Fox News' Harris Faulkner hits ALL the notes needed for "diversity":

Like so many on Fox, beauty and brains.

The closest thing CNN ever had was Juan Williams and they tossed him out.

5 posted on 07/07/2011 10:30:51 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: 70th Division

GTMA!!! LOL!!!


6 posted on 07/07/2011 10:31:25 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Red Badger

I don’t understand this, actually.

I rarely turn on CNN (their sycophant lock-step over Obama and Dems makes me nauseous) but I often see black people on there.


7 posted on 07/07/2011 10:31:46 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: Red Badger
I rarely watch network news, but when I do I am amused to note how many newscasters on the weekend shifts are black. Sometimes it seems like all of them.

The super Left mainstream media news? [shrug] They give the undesirable shifts to the black folks. The real prime shifts go to da white peoples. At least this seems to be the case in the Boston marketplace.

8 posted on 07/07/2011 10:32:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: Red Badger
They don't watch the crime reports?

Oh, they meant reading the news.... never mind.

9 posted on 07/07/2011 10:32:46 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (When you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras.)
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To: freedumb2003
The closest thing CNN ever had was Juan Williams and they tossed him out.

Was he 'beauty' or 'brains'?..................

10 posted on 07/07/2011 10:33:12 AM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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To: Red Badger
Most of the talking head on Prime Time News just read a script. What does it matter what color their skin is?

BTW, I'll give a shiite what the NAACP says when they call for more diversity in the NBA...

11 posted on 07/07/2011 10:33:50 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Greed + Envy = Liberalism)
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To: Red Badger

I guess they have to make waves every now and then to keep the pressure on. Totally not necessary tho.

I have noticed more than once, that when flipping through the channels of the local TV stations, I will as often as not see nothing but Blacks. I mean 100% of the characters I see are Black.

Most of the times tho there will be token Whites. Those token Whites will be Ellen or some guy I never knew who he was, doing a talk show.


12 posted on 07/07/2011 10:33:53 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: EQAndyBuzz

More of the same old WAAAAAAAGH!!! We’s so PITIFUL ‘cause we was born black. Why don’t YOU try to forget color?


13 posted on 07/07/2011 10:36:24 AM PDT by arrdon (Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.)
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To: Red Badger

>>Was he ‘beauty’ or ‘brains’?..................<<

Just colored...


14 posted on 07/07/2011 10:36:36 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Red Badger

“The NAACP is deeply concerned with the lack of African American journalists in prime time”

Now, just wait a minute! How come they don’t use the term “colored people”? Is there a bigger hypocrisy anywhere than an organization named, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that gets upset if you refer to blacks as colored people?


15 posted on 07/07/2011 10:37:38 AM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: Batman11
Is there a bigger hypocrisy anywhere than an organization named, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, that gets upset if you refer to blacks as colored people?

Haven't you heard? NAACP now stands for National African American Communist People.......................

16 posted on 07/07/2011 10:42:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
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To: Red Badger

So, the leftist racer organization is complaining that one of the leftist “news” organization is not recruiting more racers.


17 posted on 07/07/2011 10:43:29 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: Red Badger

When will the NAACP start allowing whites to join?


18 posted on 07/07/2011 10:45:15 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Red Badger

Yes, we must judge based on skin color, not the qualifications!


19 posted on 07/07/2011 10:46:38 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Red Badger

Hey NAACP, FU!


20 posted on 07/07/2011 10:48:58 AM PDT by FroedrickVonFreepenstein
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