Whose Newsroom is This? The US Media and Race

Published: May 3, 2011, 10:42 p.m.

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Racism in the American media goes back even further than\\xa0the founding of the US. Now, media consolidation and shrinking news budgets\\xa0are threatening to make things even worse.

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On this edition, a discussion on Race and the American Media, from the 2011 National Conference on\\xa0Media Reform, featuring Democracy Now\\u2019s Juan Gonzalez, Rinku Sen from the\\xa0Applied Research Center, and the first woman of color to anchor a major network\\xa0news show, Carole Simpson.

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Special thanks to Free Press.

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