I just read something very interesting over at CLUTCH. If you have never checked out this site, now would be a good time to do so :)
Clutch often has many interesting articles that make you think and this one is no exception. Written by Leslie Pitterson, this article speaks about black media and its coverage of international news. It truly gives you something to think about. Check out the excerpt below and click the link that follows to read more.
This week, the world’s attention will be focused on the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals Summit. Close to 140 heads of state will be coming together to discuss the international community’s progress on the eight goals meant to help eradicate extreme poverty by 2015. The meetings have the potential to affect the lives of billions of Brown people around the world, and yet—none of the Black publications that I read and love have written one single line about it.
As a UN Correspondent, the September Summit has been on my calendar for months. It represents one of the biggest news events of the season, and, in its tenth year, even the most jaded of observers will admit that it has the potential to be a historic moment for world diplomacy. And while nearly every mainstream publication will be covering it, the significance seems to be lost on publications targeting people of color. A search of the websites of Essence, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Jet, VIBE and UPTOWN magazines show not one single mention of the Summit.
I’d like to think that this is a blunder, an editorial oversight if you will. But as an avid reader of many of these publications, this latest omission represents just another example of Black media’s blatant disregard of international news.
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