Janine Jackson

BlackCommentator Guest Commentator

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Janine Jackson, is FAIR's program director and a frequent contributor to FAIR's magazine, Extra!. She co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press). And she co-hosts and produces FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin--a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country. She has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNBC's Inside Business and CNN Headline News, among other outlets. Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research. Click here to contact Ms. Jackson.

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Let’s Talk About Race – or Maybe Not – Coverage of Obama and Ethnicity Says More About Media

By Janine Jackson

There were early indications that corporate media coverage of Barack Obama’s candidacy would be squirm-inducing, putting on display the elite (mainly white) press corps’ murky ideas about race much more than any straightforward reckoning of black Americans’ situation or what an Obama presidency might mean for their concerns. Journalists were sometimes embarrassingly frank about how…

There were early indications that corporate media coverage of Barack Obama’s candidacy would be squirm-inducing, putting on display the elite (mainly white) press corps’ murky ideas…

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