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05.06.2009 9:15 am

Tough task: How can media better cover race?

An April symposium on Racial Formation 2009 yielded a discussion on how media can better cover issues of race. Held at the University of Oregon, the conference addressed several pitfalls that inject biases and skew story perceptions based on words…

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03.25.2009 5:56 pm

Blame the media for racial stereotypes?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We got a press release this week from the Ethical Society Mid Rivers that grabbed our attention. The society will present a talk on ”Racial Stereotypes in the Media” on Sunday morning. Here is how they are pitching the program.

“Mass media use stereotypes to tell…

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02.06.2009 2:11 pm

Preliminary study: talk radio and hate speech

The National Hispanic Media Coalition released a UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center report. The report, “Hate Speech on Commercial Talk Radio: Preliminary Report on a Pilot Study,” explores the role media play by studying three radio programs for evidence of…

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