Minority News Media Admits “We’re For Obama”
Can minority journalists resist applauding Obama?
Below are a few remarks from the Media that covers Barack Obama’s campaign.
“People don’t view (attending Obama’s speech) as work,” said Connie Llanos, a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News and member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. “We’re not going to write about it, so you’re allowed to voice your emotion or feeling.”
Leonard Pitts, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, believes that media objectivity is “a fairy tale we’re supposed to pledge allegiance to.” As one of the panelists who will question Obama on Sunday, he’s more concerned with being fair to both sides, and he isn’t bothered by the prospect of a few extra cheers.
“It’s asking a little bit much to ask a room full of African-American journalists, or a room full of journalists of color, who have seen people like them and probably seem themselves excluded many times on the basis of color, not to have some sort of emotional reaction to the success of the person who may arguably become the first African-American president,” said Pitts, who is black.
Said Luz Villarreal, an associate producer for “Dateline NBC”: “I don’t think it’s such a bad thing if for 15 minutes you take off your reporter hat and respond to (Obama) as a human being at an event where you’re surrounded by people of color and you’re here for a united cause.”
“Barack Obama is the Jackie Robinson of our era,” said Pitts, the columnist. “There’s no getting around that, there’s no asking people not to respond to that. … Journalists are recruited from the human race. And as long as they’re recruited from the human race they’re going to have emotions, and they’re going to have feelings.”
Michelle Malkin: Left-wing minority journalists show their true colors.
Left-wing partisan minority journalists have already shown their true colors. In 2004, more than half of the 2,000 UNITY media professionals who attended failed Dem presidential nominee John Kerry’s address gave him a standing ovation (none for Bush), cheered his partisan jibes, and booed during President Bush’s remarks
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