{"id":176431808,"date":"2014-02-02T00:41:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T06:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176431808"},"modified":"2014-02-02T00:41:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T06:41:37","slug":"media-how-well-does-the-media-cover-race-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/02\/02\/media-how-well-does-the-media-cover-race-report\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA: How Well Does the Media Cover Race? [Report]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colorlines\" src=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/images\/logo.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, January 22 2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176431809\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jay-Smooth-web_6814.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176431809\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176431809\" alt=\"Jay Smooth\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jay-Smooth-web_6814.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jay-Smooth-web_6814.jpg 650w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jay-Smooth-web_6814-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Jay-Smooth-web_6814-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176431809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong>Jay Smooth<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">How Well Does the Media Cover Race?<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\"> [Report]<\/span><\/h1>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjGQaz1u3V4\" height=\"420\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/author\/dominique-apollon\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dominique Apollon<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"componentDiv_gig_containerParent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">If you\u2019re a regular visitor to this site, chances are you feel that mainstream media typically do a poor job covering the depth and complexities of contemporary racism in the United States. You\u2019ve probably noticed how media focus on whether or not Paula Deen or some other celebrity or public figure is intentionally racist, rather than on the institutional and structural root causes of the racial disparities that continue plague our society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Well,\u00a0as Jay Smooth tells you in attached video, you can\u00a0quantify that intuition with a new report,\u00a0\u201cMoving the Race Conversation Forward.\u201d\u00a0The report comes from the researchers at Race Forward, publisher of Colorlines, who analyzed nearly 1,200 newspaper articles and transcripts from cable TV outlets \u00a0from 2013, and found that two thirds of race-focused coverage either emphasized alleged individual racism or prioritized voices that dismissed the persistence of racism as a significant force in our country today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The report refers to this kind of coverage as \u201csystemically absent\u201d content, in contrast to \u201csystemically aware\u201d content that at least highlights policies and practices such as racial profiling or voter suppression that lead to racial disparities. As the latter term is defined, the media didn\u2019t have to explicitly use terms like \u201cinstitutional racism,\u201d \u201cstructural racism\u201d or \u201csystemic racism\u201d to be classified as \u201csystemically aware,\u201d but even with this low bar, the performance was poor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The image below shows you the variations in the extent of \u201csystemically aware\u201d content across the most popular topics covered last year. Race-focused coverage (i.e., articles and transcripts that used the words \u201cracism,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cracial,\u201d or \u201cdiversity\u201d in the opening paragraphs) on the economy and criminal justice cracked just above the 50 percent mark for \u201csystemically aware\u201d content, but more than 90 percent of entertainment-focused articles were \u201csystemically absent.\u201d A close look at the column at right reveals that the most popular race-focused topics were politics, criminal justice, entertainment, race relations\/identity, and sports. Together they accounted for about three-quarters of all racism coverage last year. Part One of the report identifies the extent of \u201csystemically aware\u201d content in most of the highest circulation newspapers in the country and the three major cable outlets. And in part two, Race Forward provides case studies of recent racial justice interventions designed to disrupt the dominant frames and narratives that negatively impact people of color. For more, check out the report on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raceforward.org\/research\/reports\/moving-race-conversation-forward\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">raceforward.org<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"p1_figure2.2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/p1_figure2.2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2014\/01\/how_well_does_the_media_cover_race.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+racewireblog+%28Colorlines.com%29\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/colorlines.com\/archives\/2014\/01\/how_well_does_the_media_cover_race.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+racewireblog+%28Colorlines.com%29<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, January 22 2014 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How Well Does the Media Cover Race? [Report] \u00a0 by\u00a0Dominique Apollon\u00a0 If you\u2019re a regular visitor to this site, chances are you feel that mainstream media typically do a poor job covering the depth and complexities of contemporary racism in the United States. You\u2019ve probably noticed how media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176431808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176431808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176431808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176431846,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176431808\/revisions\/176431846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176431808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176431808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176431808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}