"CNN Dumps on Diversity"

[Empowerer]

CNN Dumps on Diversity
By Jeff Winbush
http://jeffwinbush.com/2011/07/11/cnn-dumps-on-diversity/?ref=nf
Posted July 11, 2011

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Last week CNN took pity on the dozens of viewers of In the Arena hosted by Eliot Spitzer the black sock wearing, prostitute chaser and former New York governor, and mercifully put down the dog of a show to sleep. Nobody cared . . . CNN simply moved Anderson Cooper 360 to 8:00 pm., plucked Erin Burnett from CNBC to host a news program at 7:00 and kept the widely ignored Piers Morgan at 9:00 pm and will air reruns of AC360 at 10:00 and there is your diversity NABJ, Please go kick rocks.
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America inches toward a world that is more black and brown, corporations are adjusting their cultures to embrace diversity because they know it makes good business sense. But too many network executives are ignoring this reality . . . Once again a mainstream “liberal” media outlet gives the back of their hand to diversity and inclusion and once again NABJ plays the part of the indignant supplicant . . . The problem isn’t that CNN is lacking outstanding African American talent. The problem is CNN will not promote the outstanding African American talent they already have.

CNN knows they have a black-out of their Black talent and the days of Bernard Shaw providing the news is over and done. It’s easier for a blonde newspaper columnist and a disgraced ex-governor to wander in off the street and get a primetime show than it is for veteran Black journalists at CNN. This is a network that already has a strong roster of talent to be tapped in Don Lemon, Joe Johns, Suzanne Malveaux, Soledad O’ Brien and Roland Martin, but pointedly ignores their in-house talent to bring in a refugee from CNBC.

sigh . . .

[OHdem10]

1. The Station that embraced the Tea Party and calls them their

own. What do you expect??? Where are their
headquarters???? Think about it.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Erin Burnett?!?! Yeeeeech!

[Zen Democrat]

3. I personally like Don Lemon, but he's cringeworthy at his job.

Definitely needs to do more homework.

[Whisp]

4. I like Lemon because he's nice and not cutthroat looking for the 'scoop'

or gotcha like those other assholes there - who are always on their toes waiting for someone to fuck up so they can land on their bones. Mind you, they don't do this to Repugs or Teabaggers, just Dems and people with news that some how puts big business in a bad light or challenges the status quo - generally.

[EffieBlack]

5. I agree 100%!

[EffieBlack]

6. "It’s easier for a blonde newspaper columnist and a disgraced ex-governor to wander in off

the street"

Bingo.

The networks give all manner of white folks primetime shows - even disgraced former politicians get a shot - but continue to insist that they just can't find a single African American with sufficient "image and substance to carry a primetime show."

There is absolutely no excuse for this rampant and blatant double standard.