cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3042616
From the Atlanta Daily World:
CNN continues face backlash after failing to grant credentials to Black-owned media outlets ahead of tonight’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. The highly-anticipated debate is taking place at the CNN studio in Atlanta this evening. However, 800 media outlets around the world was granted credentials, but there is zero representation from Black-owned … Continued
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Name a Black-owned news agency that applied on time then. That would convince me. There are hardly any Black-owned news agencies out there
I only have the same article you do. I’m just not the one assuming The Atlanta Black Star is the only black-owned media outlet, or that every black owned media outlet was late.
Context would lead me to think there must be at least ten, or this demand would make little sense. But that’s a lower boundary.
And also, I would imagine that they aren’t doing this bit of not-enough just for The Atlanta Black Star alone:
There very well could be a legitimate thing going on here, but until CNN says “every black owned media outlet turned in their application late” I’m not going to assume that based off a sample size of one.
Even then, you’re implying 1% of news outlets are Black-owned. Sadly, that sounds high to me. Most news outlets in the USA are owned by corporations