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Why Journalists Can’t Say the White Part Out loud
The default is white. The mainstream media had long since been mostly white owned. In articles they don’t specify race. The articles are typically written from a mainstream narrative perspective with ethnicity and race mentioned. The right-wing media seems openly white racist to me, and the black owned media, of which has always been attacked but now exists and active in America, it is still largely repressed or (unfortunately) ignored. But mainstream journalism schools and the mainstream media are written in a long-standing default of whiteness that is not stated. The perspective and audience are just a given.
It is. Let’s take an example. I put on at the end. If you pick up a story and read, you will just hear about “people” and the race and place won’t be mentioned, as though in America these things are secondary. They are primary. They may not be the front and center of every story, but a quick mention wouldn’t hurt and put the story in context. Without place and race, it might seem that America has no racism anywhere, and everywhere is equally not racist, white people are basically the same everywhere, forcing you to draw the Tim Scott Conclusion that America is not a racist country.
Some stories are critical though. Police brutality is one I often don’t see mention of where it happened, and the…
