maybe Juan will get his shot...
Posted on 07/10/2011 6:47:54 AM PDT by flowerplough
CNN's top executive has all but said that the on-air journalists of color it employs are not ready for prime time, and deployed Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who recently became a CNN news executive, to talk with the National Association of Black Journalists about finding more suitable ones.
In a statement protesting CNN's new fall prime-time lineup that was announced Wednesday and includes no journalists of color, NABJ President Kathy Y. Times said she had raised the issue with Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide.
"NABJ Vice President of Broadcast Bob Butler and I talked with President Walton late Thursday, and he told us the network continues to seek and develop a candidate who has the image and substance to carry a prime-time show," she wrote. "I invited Walton to mount an innovative search during the NABJ national convention next month in Philadelphia. It will be packed with outstanding African American talent."
Times told Journal-isms, "He told me to talk to Mark Whitaker about the search."
Whitaker, who is African American, said, "I will be at NABJ and am talking to Kathy next week."
A former vice president at NBC News, he was named in January to the newly created position of executive vice president and managing editor at CNN, reporting directly to Walton.
CNN on Wednesday canceled the political talk show "In the Arena" with Eliot Spitzer, filling his 8 p.m. time slot with Anderson Cooper's "AC360" and unveiling a fall lineup that includes a new general news program with Erin Burnett, formerly of CNBC.
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Perhaps Rev. Sharpton can oblige CNN. Seems fitting.
What about that stupid, smiling liar that used to be on BOR all the time?? What about Al Sharptongue?? What about Jesse??
What about Kwame Kilpatrick?? I think he's outof jail.
Holder should be available soon.
How about Shelby Steele, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell and Michele Malkin each getting an hour a night. That would bring the viewers and out"fox" another network. Well, I can dream.
Diversity is what they’re after.
As long as everyone thinks alike.
I can think of several blacks, but alas, they are all conservatives.
“Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who recently became a CNN news executive”
Mark Whitaker, IIRC, was at Newsweek when that magazine decided to join the rush to judgment against the falsely-accused Duke lacrosse players by running their mug shots on the cover. (Newsweek’s apology months later wasn’t another cover story, but Evan Thomas saying, “the narrative was right, but the facts were wrong”.)
So much for journalistic good sense and ethics...
“Qualified”????????
Since when is that a criterion for an Affirmative Action (’reflect the face of the community’) hire???
maybe Juan will get his shot...
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would be entertaining. He could start off with a National curse on America and then trash the Jews and White people. Then do a Top 10 of racist things in the news. Yes, the liberal media would ooh and aah over him.
Thomas Sowell.
I think Juan Williams would make a fine host for a CNN show.
I think he already did a shake-down on CNN. I don't think anybody
watched his show. Heck, I didn't even know he had a show until
his shake-downs started finally coming to light.
I think it was one of those weekend end things that are, or supposed
to be, a step above a test pattern.
You must be referring to this far left SOB...
The Extreme Makeover of Fox News: Analyst Marc Lamont Hill ["Black Liberation" revolutionary communist]
Accuracy In Media - AIM Column ^ | October 2, 2009 | Cliff Kincaid
Who would plaster his Twitter page with police mug shot photos of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur (aka Joanne Chesimard)? Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill did. At least until David Horowitz and Accuracy in Media took notice and wrote about it. Now the page features photos of boxing great Muhammad Ali. Hill's MySpace page is also gone.
There are other changes as well. The tributes to Shakur and black racist Khallid Muhammad, known as "America's Black Hitler," have disappeared from his web pages. The articles were saved, however, and can be found here.
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"I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid [Muhammad] for what he truly was: mentor, teacher and revolutionary hero" -Marc Lamont Hill
Source: Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media (AIM) - pdf file:
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/MarcLamontHillarticles.pdf
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: KHALID ABDUL MUHAMMAD
Muhammad referred to Jews as people whose ancestors were cannibals who “crawled around on all fours in the caves and hills of Europe” and “slept in [their] urination and [their] defecation... for 2,000 years.” He characterized contemporary Jews as “slumlords in the black community” who were busy “sucking our [blacks’] blood on a daily and consistent basis.” He said that Jews had provoked Adolf Hitler when they “went in there, in Germany, the way they do everywhere they go, and they supplanted, they usurped.” And he declared that blacks, in retribution against South African whites of the apartheid era, should “kill the women,…kill the children,…kill the babies,…kill the blind,…kill the crippled,…kill the faggot,…kill the lesbian,...kill them all.”
On subsequent occasions, Muhammad praised Colin Ferguson, a black man who had shot some twenty white and Asian commuters (killing six of them) in a racially motivated 1993 shooting spree aboard a New York commuter train, as a hero who possessed the courage to “just kill every goddamn cracker that he saw.” He advised blacks that “there are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.” He told a Donahue television audience in May 1994 that “[t]here is a little bit of Hitler in all white people.” He characterized black conservatives as “boot-licking, butt-licking, bamboozled, half-baked, half-fried, sissified, punkified, pasteurized, homogenized Nigger[s].” On May 21, 1997 he told a San Francisco State University audience that the "white man" is "a no-good bastard. He's not a devil, the white man is the Devil." In September 1997 he said, "If you say you're white, goddammit I'm against you. If you're a Jew, I'm against you. Whatever the hell you want to call yourself, I'm against you."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2045
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"I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid [Muhammad] for what he truly was: mentor, teacher and revolutionary hero" -Marc Lamont Hill
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"Who would plaster his Twitter page with police mug shot photos of convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur? Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill did."--Accuracy In Media
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"ASSATA (aka Joanne Chesimard)" is a pro-communist revolution propaganda film on the story of Joanne Chesimard. She (Assata Shakur/Joanne Chesimard) is the godmother of late rapper Tupac Shakur (see Section 5 of my FR home page: "the Brinks robbery and triple murder"). Tupac's stepfather (Joanne's brother) was deeply involved in that murder-robbery in which two police officers and one Brinks security guard were gunned down in cold blood.
The following is a description of the film from its pro-communist/"Black Liberation" producers
ASSATA (aka Joanne Chesimard)
Perhaps the most wanted woman in the history of the United States.
Assata Shakur/Joanne Chesimard, was questionably arrested and sentenced for killing a cop in the infamous 1973 New Jersey Turnpike shootup of a car carrying Shakur, and two other Black Panthers, one of whom was also killed. Assata received three bullets in the attack. Sentenced to Life, she escaped in 1979 from maximum security prison in NJ to eventually emerge in Cuba under Fidel Castro’s protection as a political exile. Assata’s [Joanne Chesimard] writings and presence in Cuba have brought her a huge following as an icon, a heroine – the Che Guevera of Black Liberation – a freedom fighter to thousands of young peoples throughout the world. The State of New Jersey still holds a million dollar bounty on her head–wanted dead or alive!
Directed by Fred Baker
http://www.newfilmmakersonline.com/movie-download/4625%2C1976/Fred-Baker-ASSATA-aka-Joanne-Chesimard
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From the David Horowitz Freedom Center, October 6, 2009:
Marc Lamont Hill isn’t Just An Admirer of Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, He’s His Publisher
Marc Lamont Hill, Sept 7, 2009:
"I am thrilled to announce that Mumia Abu-Jamal has joined the Barbershop as a weekly contributor!! His column, “Live From Death Row,” will appear every Wednesday starting next week.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is one of the world’s most celebrated journalists, freedom fighters, and political prisoners. Since his early days in Philadelphia, Mumia was an active member of the Black freedom struggle. From his award-winning journalism to his involvement with the Black Panther Party, Mumia has devoted his life to Black liberation. Wrongfully incarcerated since 1981 for the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Mumia has continued to place a spotlight on various forms of injustice around the globe through his numerous columns, commentaries, and books. Mumia has generated international support for his own case, which has been one of the most glaring and repugnant reflections of the criminal (in)justice system."--Marc Lamont Hill
Marc Lamont Hill isn’t Just An Admirer of Cop-Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, He’s His Publisher:
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/06/marc-lamont-hill-isnt-just-an-admirer-of-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal-hes-his-publisher/ ____________________________________________
“From his award-winning journalism to his involvement with the Black Panther Party, Mumia [Abu-Jamal] has devoted his life to Black liberation.”—Marc Lamont Hill
http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/06/marc-lamont-hill-isnt-just-an-admirer-of-cop-killer-mumia-abu-jamal-hes-his-publisher/
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"I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid [Muhammad] for what he truly was: mentor, teacher and revolutionary hero" -Marc Lamont Hill
Bill Cosby could buy CNN and replace client number 9.
Just wait a week or two and sign up Eric Holder
Van Jones
That’s the Smiling LIAR I was talking about!! Thanks!
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