Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 09:41 PM Feb 2014

Watch How Fox News Really Talks About Black America

By Sanders Deionne February 24, 2014

Fox News celebrated Black History Month with five-second clips highlighting the achievements of African-Americans. However, as Media Matters excellently points out, "Let's take a look at how at how Fox News covers issues that affect African-Americans throughout the rest of the year."

The video shows the network typically frames discussions about African-Americans and blackness around criminality, cultural degeneracy and racial inferiority, painting a very broad, disrespectful and stereotypical image of a diverse group that has made great contributions to American society.



On one hand, it might be easy to dismiss Fox News which has a stellar reputation for race-baiting and offensive rhetoric about race and supporting an anti-multicultural agenda. On the other hand, one cannot ignore the possible influence of the most watched cable news network among 25-54 year olds (although viewership is steadily declining). This is particularly true because racial perceptions have very real consequences on fairness and how individuals are treated.

Just take a look at this social experiment conducted by Jason Roberts that recently went viral.

See link: http://www.policymic.com/articles/80797/watch-how-fox-news-talks-about-black-america-and-tell-me-we-don-t-have-a-problem?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Feb
5 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Watch How Fox News Really Talks About Black America (Original Post) MrScorpio Feb 2014 OP
You are right about how they frame things and Fox is not the only guilty Cleita Feb 2014 #1
Check this out... MrScorpio Feb 2014 #2
My iPad edited out the word "right" on my answer to you. Cleita Feb 2014 #3
Ugh, that thread. Do you think O'Reilly is trolling DU? Squinch Feb 2014 #4
It's almost too easy... MrScorpio Feb 2014 #5

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
1. You are right about how they frame things and Fox is not the only guilty
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 09:45 PM
Feb 2014

Last edited Wed Feb 26, 2014, 10:18 PM - Edit history (1)

party here.

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
4. Ugh, that thread. Do you think O'Reilly is trolling DU?
Wed Feb 26, 2014, 10:21 PM
Feb 2014

Because some of the things said in that thread sound an awful lot like him.

Latest Discussions»General Discussion»Watch How Fox News Really...