In a discussion about the partnership between NewsOne and the Dream Defenders which launches today, Marjua Estevez, the organization’s public relations manager and a seasoned journalist whose op-ed appears below, brought up mainstream media’s guise of neutrality. Of course, we who have worked in media for any length of time and we who have been the victims of American media who are still unwilling to use corrective lenses to reduce race-based myopia know that claim to be a lie.
Rotten from the head
The widely acknowledged paper of record, the New York Times, has repeatedly been challenged for its biased and non-factually based coverage — especially on race. There was the protection afforded 45-year Times vet, Donald McNeill, who not only used the N-word over and over during his 2019 role as the expert guide for a Times-sponsored high school student overseas trip but also refused to apologize. Two years later, the paper terminated the relationship with McNeill, but only because 150 staff members signed a letter of complaint about him still being on the job. It makes one wonder what his POV was on any science stories he led — or the POV of his editors and multiple others who may be less crass about their racism.
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And then there’s the 2020 racist call to violence. The paper published an op-ed by MAGA-shill, Senator Tom Cotton, that called for “an overwhelming show of [military] force” against the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s horrendous murder. Worse than even publishing a piece that called for military force against people who were exercising Constitutionally protected rights, the MAGA-shill included claims in his oped about protesters that the paper knew to be false; they’d debunked the very lies Cotton included earlier that week! But the editor of the section, James Bennet and likely next line to become executive editor of the entire…
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