Net Neutrality Repeal Undermines Black Efforts to Combat Racial Bias in the Media, Activists Say
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By Mike Ludwig
An activist displays a sign during a Black Lives Matter protest in Seattle, Washington, on December 6, 2014. (Photo: Scott Lum).
During a recent review of how Black families are portrayed by various corporate media outlets, media scholar Travis Dixon observed that Fox News portrayed Black families as poor or in need of welfare assistance eight times more often than white families. On hit shows like "Hannity" and "The Kelly File," Black fathers were portrayed as unavailable to their children several times, but absentee white dads never came up.
Laura Ingraham even mentioned "the fatherless issue" during a 2015 episode of "The Kelly File" while discussing a racially charged videotape, reinforcing an old, harmful media myth that persists despite evidence showing ...