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Nanjeanne

(4,961 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 04:12 PM Feb 2016

Host of Benjamin Dixon Show is on a Twitter Rant re hypocrisy of black journalists & I Love It!



[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
Gotta do it. Been trying to avoid it. But, I can't anymore. So, regrettably, I've got to call out some of my favorite black journalists

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
Here's to all the black journalists whose derelictions of duty to the black community couldn't be more obvious at this point...

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
Instead of fostering an unbiased comparison between the benefits of Sanders or Clinton's policies for the black community, they've played...

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
They've played a very childish game of "ohhh that white man has a black problem." Instead of elevating the conversation, they've debased it

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
Instead of being leaders in thought, they've pandered for clicks to the detriment of a vital conversation. They don't have to like Sanders..

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
They can absolutely love and endorse Hillary. But to play these manipulative games of grade school rhetoric and call it journalism...

Benjamin Dixon
?@TheBpDShow
then have to gall to speak as though they represent the AA community. No. Not when 31% of AA live in poverty & 51% of black youth unemployed

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
And you want to spill ink over Sanders not as loved as the Sax playing Clinton, or not getting the right number of black faces in an ad? ...

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
There is a conversation to be had over the economics of the Status quo versus the economics of a revolution tans these black journalists are

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
Are publishing what tantamount to tabloid gossip columns. This is true of many white journalists as well, but the economic condition of AAs

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
Make it that much more irresponsible for black journalists. You have not fostered critical conversations to benefit AA. You've gossiped

Benjamin Dixon ?@TheBpDShow 3h3 hours ago
If you're a black journalist and you think I'm talking about you, let me reassure you that I am. Shame on you.
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Host of Benjamin Dixon Show is on a Twitter Rant re hypocrisy of black journalists & I Love It! (Original Post) Nanjeanne Feb 2016 OP
"pandered for clicks", like most other online journalists this season Babel_17 Feb 2016 #1

Babel_17

(5,400 posts)
1. "pandered for clicks", like most other online journalists this season
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:38 PM
Feb 2016

Though to be fair, I should mention that I've heard it's usually the editors who actually choose the headlines that we see.

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