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Anonymous ID: 35cbbc April 3, 2018, 5:06 p.m. No.884438   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4463 >>4744

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@DukeSelden

  1. This may not surprise anyone with a brain, but there is a concerted effort in newsrooms to elevate blacks. I worked for a Gannett paper that called the effort “mainstreaming.” That edict meant many things…

  2. If a reporter/photog covered a fire, and a white person was an eye-witness, & a minority only heard about it, quote the minority — and be sure to take his/her picture

  3. If you went to a school of 2000 kids and two were black, you can be sure the photog would shoot pix of the black kid. Otherwise, the photog knew he’d be sent back out because the story wasn’t “mainstreamed.”

  4. In crime stories, reporters were not allowed to include the criminal’s race if he was black.

  5. There was an edict from our publisher to get at least one minority’s picture on every page, every day. We’d stay late some nights trying to find a token minority to include. Even the minority reporters were disgusted by this.

  6. Gannett literally counted how many minorities appeared in their papers, and reporters were downgraded in evaluations for not “mainstreaming” enough.

  7. Also, reporters were forced to contribute names each year to the “minority sourcebook,” which was a list of experts in various fields who had the “right” ethnicity.

  8. That’s why it’s so disingenuous for so many journalists to be up in arms because a bunch of TV stations were directed to use the same language in a PROMO. Gannett, and many other outlets, force their reporters to adhere to this kind of edict in actual NEWS content

  9. It was embarrassing to have to hunt down the one black guy in the room for an interview. Everyone knew what was happening.

  10. Thank goodness I no longer work for that soulless killer of journalism called Gannett

  11. Sorry, I forgot to end this.