Media Minutes: January 6, 2012
Series: Media Minutes
From: Stevie Converse Candace Clement
Length: 00:05:00
A new book that tells the story of race and the American media has been garnering interest and accolades. The book, co-authored by Free Press’ Joe Torres, explores how people of color have fought for fair and just treatment from the mainstream media — and are still fighting for it today. And the National Council of Women’s Organizations has released a women’s media policy statement with directives to support women’s media enterprises and pressure the FCC to broaden women’s ownership opportunities.
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A new book that tells the story of race and the American media has been garnering interest and accolades. The book, co-authored by Free Press’ Joe Torres, explores how people of color have fought for fair and just treatment from the mainstream media — and are still fighting for it today. And the National Council of Women’s Organizations has released a women’s media policy statement with directives to support women’s media enterprises and pressure the FCC to broaden women’s ownership opportunities.
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Media Minutes
Show Date: 1-6-12
Producers: Stevie Converse, Megan Tady & Candace Clement
TRANSCRIPT
Author Joseph Torres on News for All the People
Media scholar Robert McChesney called the book a “masterpiece.” Bill Moyers said it was a “highly readable and engrossing story.” And Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice deemed it “haunting and prophetic.” Think they’re reviewing the latest Stephen King novel? Hardly.
The nonfiction book News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media has been garnering interest and accolades since Verso published it last October. The book made it to the New York Times bestseller list in November.
Co-authored by Free Press’ Joseph Torres and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, News for All the People puts race at the center of the story of American media. Looking at everything from the first colonial newspaper to...
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