The Media is Bias! A complaint a few decades late.

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The bias reporting of the news has always been a topic of discussion in the Black community. Black men and women have complained for decades about the bias in the media when it comes to reporting news about us. In this day, the media bias complaints are coming from a different group of people; White Conservatives and their Negro-Con cohorts are the number one complainers of a bias in the media. When we look at some of the reasons given by them as to why the media is bias, we see the same reasons articulated by Black men and women for decades but simply dismissed as us being paranoid or schizophrenic.

Conservatives number one way of proving that the media is bias is by proving that those reporting the news are Liberal. If he or she is a liberal surely he or she must report the news with a Liberal slant. This argument was dismissed when it was articulated by Black men and women. Our position was that the use of all white reporters in reporting news related to our community has an inherent bias in the reporting because of who the reporter is and who he or she work for. We were rebuked and were expected to believe a white person that has absolutely no contact with Black men and women and carry around all the ill informed preconceived notions about us can report the news about us accurately and without a bias.

Conservatives also complain about bias liberal teachers and professors in schools and universities. If conservatives looked at themselves, their life ambitions and the kind of jobs they take it will be easily understood why there is an over representation of Liberals in the media and in teaching positions. Conservatives are not concerned with making the human family better; Conservatives are driven by their capitalist ambitions thus those jobs that are liberal by nature will not draw very many conservatives. Conservative complaints about a bias liberal media and bias liberal teachers and professors are true to the extent that these professions are not jobs that appeal to capitalist conservative thus their opinion is under represented in these professions.

However, this is not the case with Black men and women. While we vote with the democrats and hold many conservative values, the bias reporting of the news concerning our community is carried out by both liberal and conservative whites and now a group of Negro-Cons have jumped on the bandwagon putting up a site called “Black media watch” where they will critique the Black media liberal bias. What kind of foolishness are these Negroes into. The Black media tells you out front that it is bias by virtue of it being “the black media”. Critiquing the Black media is a waste of time and trying to prove that there is a liberal bias or a bias leaning towards the voting habits of black men and women is an exercise in futility. It is tantamount to critiquing Black introspection to see if we mostly speak to the issues that affect Black men and women.

It is foolish and a belief that has no basis in reality to believe that the personal biases and affinities of men and women reporting the news will not spill over into their reporting of the news and this is why I believe the complaints from White Conservatives and their Negro-Con cohorts only prove what Black men and women have known for decades; there is a bias in the media and that bias has been a disservice to the Black community for decades.