Posted on 08/13/2007 6:40:36 AM PDT by MindBender26
Bernard Shaw, the veteran journalist who retired as CNN anchor in 2000, struck out at unnamed media owners who are "sabotaging the public good" with their "profit fixations," and, as he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday night from the National Association of Black Journalists, warned white males that they ignore diversity at their peril.
"Journalists, hear me tonight," Shaw told an awards banquet audience at the NABJ convention in Bally's hotel in Las Vegas. "There are some owners in the business — bosses, parent companies — whose profit fixation and staffing directives and decisions sabotage the public good they profess to serve.
"They are turning the people's right to know into the people's fight to know," he said.
"Beyond this ballroom tonight, white males, wake up," Shaw continued. "Globally, you are an island speck in an ocean of color.
"The reins of power will weaken and so will your grip — if you do not faithfully support our nation's greatest strength, diversity.
"To you, caught in the middle, stay vigilant. You must stay strong."
Shaw, 67, said, "I was speaking for the historical record. I expect my words to resonate long after I'm dead." He said a speech accepting the NABJ's Lifetime Achievement Award deserved carefully chosen words. "That was in the tradition of Frederick Douglass," the first well-known black journalist, he said. "I was seeking to inspire, to inform and to light a fire under some asses."
Also honored during the program was Steve Capus, president of NBC News, who had said on Friday of ousted radio host Don Imus, "I'm not going to bring him back to MSNBC."
"Whether he deserves another shot on somebody else's airwaves, someone else will decide," Capus said. "I'm not going to bring him back to MSNBC." He was responding to a question about a comment by "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert that he would return to Imus' show should it be reinstated.
In declaring Black Entertainment Television the winner of the organization's Thumbs Down award, Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times, who chairs the NABJ's Media Monitoring Committee, Thursday cited not only BET's dearth of regular public affairs programming and its failure to broadcast live the funeral of Coretta Scott King.
Haven’t done any studies myself, but just from watching, it appears blacks are overrepresented, if anything, in television broadcast “journalism.”
During the Reagan funeral Shaw said, you know what, we media really missed something when he was president. That’s the smartest thing he ever said.
Just what does a leftist mean by “black”? Based on past behavior, it is a code word meaning liberal blacks and only blacks who are liberal.
Shaw, who is certainly not poor, is free to recruit like-minded associates (even from those who are not “black”) and start his own Black News Channel, so his voice can have an outlet. But based on the recent demise of the Air America network, I doubt that Shaw’s effort would be “sustainable” either (a vital concept that the left embraces for any activity except economics).
Shaw’s rant is just another manifestation of the rage the left is working up to express about their loss of monopoly power over the gateways of information and more importantly, over the gateways of opinion. The left used to sneer at those of us who disliked the trash they pushed on us, responding to our complaints with suggestions that we can always change the channel. Now that many viewers and readers are doing exactly that, and choosing to listen to non-liberal voices, the left will not go quietly.
This is poppycock, lukewarm dishwater, and soggy charcoal. It is the puerile spewings of a deluded narcissist. How about hiring the most qualified for the job regardless of skin color?! How about assessing the content of their character rather than the baggage of their culture?
What an ego.
And Janet Cooke.
He may be clean, but he sure is not articulate.
Venni Viddi Pompus
We hear that a lot — I’ve never seen any proof of it though.
Does he know “sabotaging the public good” is pure Marxist dogma?
“I expect my words to resonate long after I’m dead.”
Racist and modest too.
Are we not all more alike than different? Excluding the terrorist elements of course....
I heard recently that diverse neighborhoods are actually less friendly, with neighbors less likely to become close or come to each other’s aid.
LOL, there is such a revolving door at MSNBC, Capus will probably be gone by year's end and it won't be his decision. Imus was the only money producing show on MSNBC.
Nernard Shaw is the ultimate Affirmative Action Jackson. Terrible reporter, pseudo-”journalist”
“Haven’t done any studies myself, but just from watching, it appears blacks are overrepresented, if anything, in television broadcast “journalism.””
And commercials...
And sitcoms...
And reality shows...
And the 11:00 news...
And...............
Notice at these black functions, they never give awards to black Republicans.
Has anybody ever come up with ONE?
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