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[natina]

Infographic: The Enormous Racial Gap in Political Reporting

A stunning 93 percent of front-page election news stories are written by white reporters.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/infographic-the-enormous-racial-gap-in-political-reporting/264080/


Birtherism (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/the-problem-with-polls-about-whether-obama-is-a-muslim/254380/). Immigration reform (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/want-to-thank-someone-for-obamas-immigration-move-thank-marco-rubio/258580/). Jeremiah Wright (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/why-should-jeremiah-wright-be-off-limits-for-political-attacks/257346/). The Herman Cain campaign (http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/16/herman-cain-s-unlikely-republican-rise.html). Marco Rubio (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/why-the-mitt-romney-marco-rubio-ticket-wasnt-meant-to-be/258682/). The Obama Phone (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/just-how-racist-obama-phone-video/57353/). Issues pertaining to race and ethnicity have been incredibly important to the 2012 election -- if slightly less prominent than they were during Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign.
But almost all the people covering those stories have been white, according to an analysis by 4th Estate. (They're also probably men. (http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/its_2012_already_why_is_opinio.php)) The media analysis organization looked at who's writing front-page stories for major papers, including a breakdown by broad topic area. It found that 93 percent of page one articles on the election were written by white reporters, with Asian Americans writing 4 percent, blacks writing just 2.1 percent, and Hispanics penning 0.9 percent. * In contrast, the numbers among the general population (http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf) are 56.1 percent white, 16.3 percent Hispanic, about 5 percent Asian, and 12.6 percent black.
A few surprising results:

Of the four topics covered included -- the economy, social issues, foreign policy, and immigration -- immigration is least likely to be covered by a minority journalist, with 94.8 percent* of stories written by whites.
The Dallas Morning News deserves a prize: The paper managed to get the portion of their front-page election stories written by minorities to 21.2 percent.
The San Francisco Chronicle, by contrast, performed worst. A full 100 percent of the stories 4th Estate analyzed were written by whites. That figure is even more puzzling given that more than 20 percent of the paper's newsroom is non-white (http://asne.org/Files/pdf/2012%20Minority%20Percentages%20at%20Participating %20Newspapers.pdf#survey).
The highest minority representation came in coverage of social issues, with just 90.8 percent of the articles written by white reporters.
The media has for years struggled with racial and gender disparities. But this should serve as a reminder that it's not just a problem for newsrooms -- it's a problem for the news that lands on stoops around the nation every day.
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Correction: This graphic originally indicated that the figures for Asian Americans, blacks, and Hispanics were 3.3 percent, 3 percent, and 0.7 percent respectively, and that 98.2 percent of immigration-related stories were written by whites. We have updated this post per updates from 4th Estate

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/infographic-the-enormous-racial-gap-in-political-reporting/264080/

[fordly66]

So what's your point? White men can't report the news? White people are known liars? Why all this hate towards white people? Has it come down to this, that "white" is a dirty word? All I hear anymore is bad things about white people. So are white people not to have jobs? Maybe all white people in the USA should put guns to their heads and off themselves, that way everyone else would finally be happy.

[JerseyMike]

A stunning 95% of African-Americans voted for Obama......
If 95% of the Caucasian population voted for Romney that would be racist.
Double standard......
Nah never!!!

[onmyknees]

Another pointless race trolling post by Natina. If there's a disparity, blame white liberals.....because of all the publications cited in your copy/paste job, almost every single one of them are run by white liberals. That's not even arguable. The Ombudsmen of those publications will verify that fact. Countless studies have been done on the issue. Or do your own antidotal research and just read the editorial pages of any one of those newspapers. One such study was conducted by UCLA...

"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."

So here's the take away from your story as far as I'm concerned.....Where are all the black faces, White Liberals? Or is a do as I say, not as I do, scenario?

[natina]

TIM WISE ON THE CREATION OF WHITENESS (CLIP)
Tim Wise on the Creation of Whiteness - How Race Was Used to Hide Class - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-csRqcfE34)

http://redroom.com/member/tim-wise/media/videos/tim-wise-on-the-creation-of-whiteness-clip

Tim Wise on the "Dominant Historical Narrative"
http://redroom.com/member/tim-wise/media/videos/tim-wise-on-the-dominant-historical-narrative





the preacher tells the truth and it hurts

TIM WISE has new essays ++


you need to repeat for those who had not seen and heard it and need refreshing in the mind

a few people can't handle the truth.

the preacher tells the truth and it hurts

http://www.redroom.com/video/tim-wise-dominant-historical-narrative

http://www.redroom.com/video/tim-wise-creation-whiteness-clip


WHITES CAME here FOR REligous freedom

http://redroom.com/member/tim-wise/media/videos/tim-wise-on-the-dominant-historical-narrative



The Underprivileged White Male
The Underprivileged White Male - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jaH_hmnrPU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL)



Infographic: The Enormous Racial Gap in Political Reporting

A stunning 93 percent of front-page election news stories are written by white reporters.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/infographic-the-enormous-racial-gap-in-political-reporting/264080/


Birtherism (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/the-problem-with-polls-about-whether-obama-is-a-muslim/254380/). Immigration reform (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/want-to-thank-someone-for-obamas-immigration-move-thank-marco-rubio/258580/). Jeremiah Wright (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/why-should-jeremiah-wright-be-off-limits-for-political-attacks/257346/). The Herman Cain campaign (http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/10/16/herman-cain-s-unlikely-republican-rise.html). Marco Rubio (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/why-the-mitt-romney-marco-rubio-ticket-wasnt-meant-to-be/258682/). The Obama Phone (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/just-how-racist-obama-phone-video/57353/). Issues pertaining to race and ethnicity have been incredibly important to the 2012 election -- if slightly less prominent than they were during Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign.
But almost all the people covering those stories have been white, according to an analysis by 4th Estate. (They're also probably men. (http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/its_2012_already_why_is_opinio.php)) The media analysis organization looked at who's writing front-page stories for major papers, including a breakdown by broad topic area. It found that 93 percent of page one articles on the election were written by white reporters, with Asian Americans writing 4 percent, blacks writing just 2.1 percent, and Hispanics penning 0.9 percent. * In contrast, the numbers among the general population (http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf) are 56.1 percent white, 16.3 percent Hispanic, about 5 percent Asian, and 12.6 percent black.




A few surprising results:

Of the four topics covered included -- the economy, social issues, foreign policy, and immigration -- immigration is least likely to be covered by a minority journalist, with 94.8 percent* of stories written by whites.
The Dallas Morning News deserves a prize: The paper managed to get the portion of their front-page election stories written by minorities to 21.2 percent.
The San Francisco Chronicle, by contrast, performed worst. A full 100 percent of the stories 4th Estate analyzed were written by whites. That figure is even more puzzling given that more than 20 percent of the paper's newsroom is non-white (http://asne.org/Files/pdf/2012%20Minority%20Percentages%20at%20Participating %20Newspapers.pdf#survey).
The highest minority representation came in coverage of social issues, with just 90.8 percent of the articles written by white reporters.
The media has for years struggled with racial and gender disparities. But this should serve as a reminder that it's not just a problem for newsrooms -- it's a problem for the news that lands on stoops around the nation every day.

__
Correction: This graphic originally indicated that the figures for Asian Americans, blacks, and Hispanics were 3.3 percent, 3 percent, and 0.7 percent respectively, and that 98.2 percent of immigration-related stories were written by whites. We have updated this post per updates from 4th Estate

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/infographic-the-enormous-racial-gap-in-political-reporting/264080/