This is just another nail in the coffin of real journalism.
Journalists, as we have seen over the past years, engage in celebrity worship...and this apparently is no exception.
Can you imagine being a struggling, hard working, FAIR minded young black journalist—wanting to be recognized for your contributions to the craft? And then you see some celebrity getting this kind of award?
At least even some liberal sources are acknowledging this is pathetic:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/black-journalists-associations-award-for-beyonce-draws-criticism/
She's a journalist because she wrote a first person account of a brief hiatus she took from performing? This has to be a parody. Then again, "journalism" is such a standardless profession that this probably shouldn't surprise me. It all comes down to Beyonce is a cute, popular black woman and we want to promote that so let's give her an award so she can call herself an "award winning journalist" too.
I guess if Algore and his O-ness can “win” Nobel Peace Prizes, Miss Thang can will a journalism award.
Everybody gets a trophy, after all...
This award is hugely logical; US presstitutes are already getting scooped by college kids, ex-shop clerks, gun magazine writers, and people in their underwear. The job of “real” journoz is to NOT report the news.
Why not raise Sexy Cleopatra to the lofty heavens of official US journalism...?
It makes sense.
Entertainment, media, news and politics have all morphed into one entity.
If you accept that idea, many things going on in the US today will make much more sense.
The obsession with race, entertainment and celebrity status versus the values of work, study, legitimacy, etc accounts for the differences in cultures, productivity, and image.
Who did the White Journalists Association honor? Oh, never mind.
The news “shows” are just devolving into infotainment. It’s just some are dissolving their old standards a lot faster than others.
I can’t watch the news - national or local - anymore. They are all “Entertainment Tonight” or “Extra” or worse. Seriously. Pap and pablum. I watch CBN and listen to talk radio and hunt my news down online.
Hey, can she really be any worse than the journalists who gave her the silly award?