Lou Dobbs/CNN playing the race card?

[Lone_Wolf]

I was just watching a segment on Lou Dobbs about unemployment insurance running out for millions of Americans. They interviewed/highlighted only two people who were unemployed. Both were African-American. Conspiciously absent from this segment were white-Americans (I'm white).

Is this one subtle way the media perpetuates the myth that unemployment is simply an African-American problem? Are they trying to brainwash their audience into believing that it is African-Americans, not whites, that use unemployment?

[plurality]

1. probably so

people might actually care about it if they thought it could happen to white people.

[peacetalksforall]

2. If you want the meanest answer....

the answer is yes. If a right leaning-bending over corporation like CNN wants to make the unemployment picture look less bleak and more favorable to the BushGate administration...then, by only interviewing blacks - it give the impression that - it must not be so bad - it's (only?) affecting blacks.

So, did their News Director plan it that way or did they interview all, then cut because of a time element. You'll never know. But we can continue to note it and use it towards our impression of what they're doing to all of us.

[Tomee450]

4. I disagree

The policies of this administration have had a terrible effect in the black community. A few months ago, I read that since Bush came into office, over 500,000 African Americans have lost their jobs. I know black families who are having to move in with parents and other relatives because they have lost their jobs and there is no safety net to help them.

[peacetalksforall]

5. I must have written something wrong....

I know well the effect on all communities ot the little people. It is so much worse then the BushGate admin and the media try to portray it. I'm just saying that I don't put anything past CNN - including always attempting to appeal to right wingers, dishing out propaganda, and turning news into propaganda - and always (probably) more successfuly than was done in the USSR.

[aintitfunny]

3. I don't think so

I have seen him on many occasions cover people out of work. Last night it was a small Tennessee town. There may have been some black people, but the vast majority were white. In fact could have been 100% white in retrospect. All out of work because Oshkosh moved the factory out of the country and all the factory workers lost their jobs. He is just very fixed on the NAFTA thing and people losing jobs to overseas workers.

The job losses crosses all racial, ethnic and religious lines and I know he has harped on the issue for some time now.