Comments on: Why are All the “BLACK” Reporters Covering Michelle Obama? The Story Howard Kurtz SHOULD Have Covered..BUT WON’T

By: unusualmusic

unusualmusic — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:55:17 +0000

@malletgirl02

He called teh journalist from Huffington Post Nico Pitney, a dick.

By: Dee

Dee — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:31:09 +0000

“@Dee they can’t answer that. To answer the questions means to turn over some rocks and nobody wants to see what crawls out from the darkness.”

Oh, so true, Admin, oh so true!

Still, now that the embarrassing/awkward/uncomfortable questions are out there, I hope that they’ll keep being asked. All being well, after a while if enough people persist in asking them, those currently disinclined to answer may find themselves needing to re-think….

(Just why is it that a “progressive” (ahem….) entity, especially one that appears to be black/brown/yellow/red people allergic in terms of offering employment opportunities, and which is also just one of any number of relevant blogs out here that could be approached, being treated so favourably? My curiosity has been sparked. I want to know, now, too!)

By: malletgirl02

malletgirl02 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:31:17 +0000

“Dana Milbank went so far as to call him a dick during a television interview. Huffington Post isn’t my favorite place ever, but I will say that the mainstream media wasn’t asking anything of goddamn sense re:Iran, and Mr. Pitney asked one of the most difficult questions of the night.”

Who did Milbank call a dick the President or the interview from the Huffington Post? either way it was extremely unprofessional

By: admin

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:04:34 +0000

Well in that case, we don’t disagree then.

By: unusualmusic

unusualmusic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:55:27 +0000

Hmm, I reread your reply to me and I just understood what you said about the fact that the administration seeming to use Huffington Post as its one nod to the blogosphere. And I was just thinking about that the other day. I firmly agree with your argument on that.In fact, I don’t agree that the Huffington Post is the best leftist blog that he could be calling on anyway. In fact, I would love for him to give credentials to much more blogs that deal with different issues, race and environments and LGBT issues, among others. With a hefty hefty dose of diversity. it would be nice to see Pams House Blend, or unapologetic mexican or racewire asking questions. I have a feeling Robert Gibbs would not have an easy time of it at all, though, based on his dodging and weaving in regard to difficult questions of late….

By: unusualmusic

unusualmusic — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:47:05 +0000

I do agree with you in terms of the macro situation, What I will say is that based on what I know of teh blogospher re: teh Iran crisis, that particular incident may not have been the best illustration. Because as far as I could see, Andrew Sullivan and Nico Pitney were the go-to people for teh Iran crisis. They aggregated the tweets and leveraged their wide readership to get stuff translated and such. Poepl went off on CNN because they were sleeping while those two were in the mix. So it makes sense that the admin would call on one of them for a question on Iran. If I was aware of another blog run by a POC that was doing the same type of work on that particular issue, then I wouldn’t have said anything.

That being said, I totally agree with teh rest of your critique of Mr. Kurtz’s argument.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:58:44 +0000

Thank you! and that’s why we have our little corner of the world because no one else is going to point this out, especially not Kurtz.

By: SjP

SjP — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:14:04 +0000

Could not agree with you more!

By: rikyrah

rikyrah — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:52:25 +0000

I am really loving this thread, because you all are on the money. Thank you for calling our Kurtz the way that he should be put on BLAST.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:32:48 +0000

@Dee they can’t answer that. To answer the questions means to turn over some rocks and nobody wants to see what crawls out from the darkness. OF COURSE these Black reporters want to be covering some other aspect of politics, they are taking what opportunity they’ve been given and its a low down dirty thing to tar them ( pun intended) with a lack of objectivity just because they aren’t a part of the privileged few.