Media and Race Precis

In her article "Media and Race" (2009) Ezra Klein of CBS asserts that race is still an issue within each part of American media.  She goes on to express her feelings on how our nations history with race is cleaned up and turned into classic American tales of people overcoming oppression because of brave leaders from their community.  Klein says all of this in order to state the obvious, that race is still an issue today but it is one that does not want to me touched by anyone because of our past.

Topic Freewrite

While in the process of doing research on my topic I made the mistake of writing a precis on a book that is about my topic instead of a scholarly article.  This book written by Beulah Ainley in 1998 was called "Black Journalists, White Media".  Now obviously I did not sit down and read the entire book but I was able to read a small portion of it which I believe addressed the purpose of the book.  This book discusses the issue of  race in a media prodominately run by whites and  how the race of a journalist can effect the stories they choose to investigate or write about.  Ainley even gives personal occassions on the subject, "Of the 80 whom I informed I was black only 45 had the courtesy to reply.  Some of those who did not reply went on advertising their vacancies for weeks afterward."

Race in Media precis

In this novel, "Black Journalist, White Media (1998)" author Beulah Ainley writes on just that, the amount of black journalist in the media and why.  The author uses hard evidence, facts and even personal experience in order to bring out the issue of race in the media which is the reason some stories are never brought to light.