What’s bad about this?
This is one of those things that I had to see for myself; Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday suggesting to Tiger to take up Christianity. Could you blame me? Usually when you hear about someone suggesting turning to Jesus as one’s savior, the news travels fast to the point that people want to scream red. So when I watched the video of what Brit said I wondered…
Obama White House is not (just) Anti-Fox News…
I want to take you back to earlier this year in the rant heard around the world. CNBC Commentator Rick Santelli, from the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, says what we all were thinking…
Spare me the coverage…
As we all know, unless you have been in hiding, we are going to inaugurate the first Black President of these United States of America in a couple of weeks. BET and TV One will be covering the inauguration on January 20. The Associated Press says that BET will be covering the parade and swearing in from four different angles, while TVOne will be doing 21 straight hours of live coverage, especially since this is their big fifth anniversary weekend. With BET and TVOne investing all of this coverage into the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama (D), I have to ask…why?
Why are these two networks, who have not cared about news coverage before Barack Obama ran for office (although BET did have some moments,) all of a sudden decide to cover a presidential inauguration. I understand that this is suppose to be a great celebratory story, but they were not covering JACK before Barack Obama ran for president. As a matter of fact none of them lifted a finger until get got the nomination. For me to sit here and say, hey that’s great would be a lie because I don’t think that it’s great. I think it’s a sad commentary on how these networks , especially BET, would rather entertain more than they would inform.
BET had a news department, then they canceled it, and now…well, they do not have much of anything. MTV News has more of a news department than BET. TVOne was an entertainment channel from the start, however, they should of had some committment to public affairs. Although TVOne is at least tasteful (sans Michael Baisden), BET has been mired in controversy for it’s choice in programming content. They have been in existence for nearly 30 years, yet they have not consistently kept a stronger News or Public Affairs presence. The reason why is between Viacom’s budget cutting and Bob Johnson’s lack of interest.
Here is the problem, we have two strong black networks that can level the playing field at the drop of a hat (probably not so much now because of the economy,) but they would rather not do anything unless there is something in it for them. For them to all of a sudden give live coverage as if they were in the know the entire time, is an insult to the many black journalists (or should I say journalists who are black) who are trying to give a fair and balanced view of the world. I would rather have them film it as the entertainment spectacle they are planning to do live for playback whever they feel like, than to play pretend. Especially since one person (Joe Madison) more than likely did not think that Obama was Black enough at some point.
