ESPN’s Mike Wilbon I found Ta-Nehisi Coates’ recent post on the lack of diversity in long-form journalism interesting, and it reignited in my mind the separate but similar issue about the lack of African-American sports writers. I covered a prominent college athletics program, one that drew regular attention from the national media and an obsessive level of attention from statewide media, but I was always struck by the disparity between the disproportionately high number of black athletes I covered and the disproportionately low number of black writers I saw in the media. It turns out that isn’t anecdotal: in 2006, ESPN’s Scoop Jackson noted a research project conducted by the Associated Press Sports Editors that found that just four of the 305 newspapers it surveyed had a black sports editor
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Category: Africa, author, Economics, Economy, emr, Feeds, Health, Justice, LGBT, Media, Science, The Nation, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War, Washington | Comments OffIt’s a twisty path we thread when we argue that popular culture has an impact in the real world. I believe, firmly, that what we see in movies and on television, what we read in the few books that become mass phenomena these days do shape our assumptions about what is normal and what is real, that we can help build the dream of a more just and inclusive world and work through the nightmares we may be building for ourselves.
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Category: author, CNN, Economy, Feeds, Health, Islamophobia, Justice, LGBT, Media, Science, SPONSOR, Terrorism, ThinkProgress, Tweets, War, Washington | Comments OffIt was to be expected that Jennifer Rubin, the Washington Post ‘s resident champion of all things Mitt Romney , would be enthused at Romney’s selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, but her blog post this morning on the relationship between Ryan and Romney is an embarrassment for the paper.
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Category: Alternet, author, Congress, Economy, Elections, Environment, Feeds, Health, Justice, Media, Politics, Science, War | Comments OffTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. US stocks surged Friday, boosted by the Labor Department’s July labor report showing stronger-than-expected jobs growth and a slight increase in services sector activity.US stocks surged Friday, boosted by the Labor Department’s July labor report showing stronger-than-expected jobs growth and a slight increase in services sector activity. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished at 13,096.17, up a hefty 217.29 points (1.69 percent).
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