Scorn Heaped on 3 White House Reporters

Media Critic Says CNN Should Sue Trump

How 10 Newsrooms Address Need for Diversity

Milestone Jury Reform Began With 5-Part Series

Algorithms Could Be the Newest Jim Crow

NAJA Condemns Tribe’s Repeal of Free Press Law

ADL: Votes for Extremists ‘Disturbingly High’

. . . Congress to Seat Record Number of Latinos

. . . More on the Midterms

Short Takes

Scorn Heaped on 3 White House Reporters

This time, President Trump’s insults to black female reporters were so egregious that even journalists whose priorities are usually elsewhere quickly picked up on them.

“During a rant on Friday about CNN reporter Jim Acosta, President Donald Trump turned to another reporter, April Ryan,” Rebecca Morin reported Friday for Politico.

” ‘You talk about somebody that’s a loser,’ Trump said of Ryan, a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks who is African American. ‘She doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing.’

“During the gaggle in front of the White House, Trump continued to criticize reporters and went after another reporter of color.

“ ‘What a stupid question that is. What a stupid question,’ he told CNN reporter Abby Phillip after she asked if Trump wants [Acting Attorney General Matt] Whitaker to ‘rein in [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller.’

” ‘But I watch you a lot, you ask a lot of stupid questions,’ the president continued to Phillip before turning away and refusing to answer the question.

“Journalists, media groups and academics immediately started speaking up, saying the remarks revealed a bifurcated approach between how the president treats white reporters and those who are women or people of color, including PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, with whom he also [quarreled] this week.

“While the president insults many journalists, these critics say his barbs targeting women and people of color feel especially sharp, and hit at the reporter’s basic intelligence and competence as a person. It’s a tone that black reporters and scholars of African-American history say particularly stings, given that [African American] journalists were not allowed into the White House until 1947 — and that the White House press corps remains overwhelmingly white to this day.

Statement: @abbydphillip did not ask a “stupid” question today at the White House. In fact, she asked the most pertinent question of the day. The @realDonaldTrump’s personal insults are nothing new. And never surprising.

— CNN

Communications (@CNNPR) November 9, 2018

“Things have gotten contentious between the president and the press, but this is unlike anything we’ve seen since the days that African Americans were first allowed into the White House to report,” said Marcia Chatelain, an African-American studies professor at Georgetown University. Alice Allison Dunnigan was the first African-American to serve as White House correspondent, which she gained access to in 1947.

” ‘Although we have a 70-year history of African-American reporters being brought into the White House, it seems that this president wants to extend beyond those years in the days that they were banned,’ she added.

“The National Association of Black Journalists on Friday said Trump’s comments towards Ryan, Philip and Alcindor were ‘appalling, irresponsible and should be denounced.‘

” ‘The most powerful man in the free world is verbally abusing journalists,’ NABJ President Sarah Glover said. ‘The past two years have been filled with assaults on the media and Donald Trump’s comments this week have reached an all-time low with attacks on three black female journalists.’

“Trump’s scolds also drew attention as they came the same week the president repeatedly interrupted reporters who had accents, saying that he did not understand them. To some media observers, Trump’s reactions echoed reports that Trump has previously mocked the accent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi or mimicked the style of Asian trade negotiators.

“Chatelain said Trump’s behavior demonstrates his contempt toward people of color and women. . . .”

Media Critic Says CNN Should Sue Trump

“The White House cited CNN’s Jim Acosta ‘placing his hands on a young woman’ as the reason for pulling his credentials, referring to an intern who was trying to take a microphone away from him as he persisted in trying to ask a question of President Donald Trump,” Ted Johnson reported Friday for Variety.

“Now Trump suggests that reporters will risk their credentials if they do not treat the White House and the presidency with ‘respect.’ ” . . .

Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan suggested a solution Thursday that might stop Trump in his tracks.

“CNN should sue the Trump White House on First Amendment grounds. And press-rights groups, along with other media organizations, should join in to create a united and powerful front,” Sullivan wrote. “(Fox News, which benefited from the press corps’ united front on its behalf when the Obama White House tried to exclude it from some briefings in 2009, should pay that solidarity forward by getting on board.)

“ ‘This merits a forceful response, and a lawsuit would be reasonable,’ said Jonathan Peters, a media-law professor who teaches at the University of Georgia Law School and is the press freedom correspondent for Columbia Journalism Review.

“He told me by email that the stated rationale for revoking the pass ‘was clearly a sham,’ and the White House should be held accountable.

“ ‘Nothing educates the government so much as a damage award,’ he said. (The claim, he said, would probably take the form of an action under a statute that
authorizes suits against government actors for, among other things, a deprivation of First Amendment rights.)

“The legal question, he said, may be whether a journalist has a First Amendment right of access to information or places closed to the public but open generally to press — and some lower courts have said yes. (In Sherrill v. Knight, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled in 1977 that a reporter for the Nation shouldn’t have been denied a White House press pass.)

“Bruce Brown, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, told me Thursday that CNN ‘now has a legitimate claim that there’s been retaliation — a line has been crossed here.’ . . .”

• Nina Berman, Columbia Journalism Review: To Trump supporters, CNN’s Jim Acosta is an enemy and a selfie trophy
• CNN: Trump to CNN reporter: What a stupid question (video)
• Editorial, Boston Globe: Why is President Trump so afraid of a free press?
• Jordan Fabian, the Hill: Trump calls April Ryan a ‘loser,’ threatens to revoke more press credentials
• Paul Farhi, Washington Post: ‘What a stupid question’: Trump demeans three black female reporters in three days
• International Women’s Media Foundation: The IWMF calls for women covering The White House to be treated with respect
• Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS): “condemns President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on members of the White House Press Corps, especially black women journalists and other reporters of color.”
• Meghan Keneally, ABC News: Reporter April Ryan says she was ‘taken aback’ by Trump telling her to sit down
• Mark Landler, New York Times: Even for This President, It Was a Remarkable Week of Attacks on American Institutions
• Paul LeBlanc, CNN: Toobin says ‘racial dimension’ to Trump’s attacks on black female journalists
• Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald: Journalists ask tough questions. The president hates that. Time for him to get a grip.
• David Nakamura, Washington Post: Trump’s insults toward black reporters, candidates echo ‘historic playbooks’ used against African Americans, critics say
• NLGJA — the Association of LGBTQ Journalists: A Message From NLGJA (National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association)
• Kimberley Richards, HuffPost: Twitter Is Rallying Behind Black Female Journalists After Trump’s ‘Loser’ Comment
• Al Tompkins and Kelly McBride, Poynter Institute: CNN’s Jim Acosta’s actions to Trump don’t represent the best of journalism
• Charlie Warzel, BuzzFeed: People Are Arguing About Whether This Trump Press Conference Video Is Doctored
• Erik Wemple, Washington Post: Black, female and covering President Trump? Expect peak nasty.

How 10 Newsrooms Address Need for Diversity

“What does it mean that most newsrooms in America don’t reflect the diversity of the communities they cover?” the editors of Columbia Journalism Review asked in another piece posted online from its special print edition on race and journalism.

“The answer can’t be good. CJR visited 10 newsrooms across the country where the mismatch between the makeup of the staff and the demographics of the coverage area seems particularly notable.

“What we found is both depressingly predictable — lots of talk about job pipelines and a lack of qualified candidates  — and unusually candid. Editors admitted that they had, frankly, failed.

“The fact that the conversations about diversity are the same ones that the industry has been having for decades (really since the report of the Kerner Commission a half-century ago), shows how little progress has been made in the United States, even as the demographics of the country have changed profoundly. It is true that journalism’s failure is not unlike that of other institutions, from corporate America to college campuses to Congress, but that is as much an excuse as an observation.

“For the profiles that follow, we talked to newsroom managers, reporters, and residents about what a lack of diversity means to readers and to journalism itself. And, critically, we look at what now has to happen to fix the problem.

“Honolulu, Hawai‘i
“Seattle, Washington
“Los Angeles, California”
“Baltimore, Maryland
“Queens, New York
“Denver, Colorado
“South Bend, Indiana
“Houston, Texas
“Orlando, Florida
“Jackson, Mississippi . . .”

• Alexandria Neason, Columbia Journalism Review: We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: The past and future of America’s black press

Milestone Jury Reform Began With 5-Part Series

“The law was born in the Jim Crow era,” David Beard wrote Thursday for the Poynter Institute. “Thanks to strong journalism and bipartisan support, Louisiana voters killed it Tuesday night, 120 years later.

“Nearly two-thirds of the state’s voters chose to eliminate a provision that allowed non-unanimous jury convictions.

“The move was one of several momentous ballot initiatives approved across the nation Tuesday, including a decision in Florida to allow the vote for up to 1.4 million Floridians who had done their time for a felony conviction.

“In Louisiana, The Advocate worked for nearly a year on a five-part project that showed how jury convictions — even if one or two jurors didn’t agree — distorted justice in the state. Journalists created a database in 10 state parishes and found that of 994 convictions, 40 percent came from these ‘split’ jury votes.

“Journalists Jeff Adelson, Gordon Russell and John Simerman found African American defendants were 30 percent more likely to be convicted by non-unanimous juries than white defendants. Blacks were underrepresented on juries and black jurors found themselves 2.5 times more likely to be on the losing side of a conviction vote, said Russell, the newspaper’s managing editor for investigations. . . . ”

Beard also wrote, “Russell told me that the remarkable move to restore unanimous-only verdicts began with black lawmakers and the ACLU and spread to the Catholic church, the Louisiana Family Forum and the Koch Brothers. ‘This went from mostly a liberal issue to being a bipartisan coalition,’ he said, including well-organized canvassing and campaigns with funding from the [Kochs] and foundations by Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros. . . .”

• Associated Press: Lawsuit challenges Alabama’s method of electing judges
• Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | Times-Picayune: Louisiana parishes were almost unanimous in support of unanimous jury verdicts

Algorithms Could Be the Newest Jim Crow

“Since 2010, when I published ‘The New Jim Crow’ — which argued that a system of legal discrimination and segregation had been born again in this country because of the war on drugs and mass incarceration — there have been significant changes to drug policy, sentencing and re-entry, including ‘ban the box’ initiatives aimed at eliminating barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated people,” Michelle Alexander wrote Thursday for the New York Times.

She became a columnist there in September.

“This progress is unquestionably good news, but there are warning signs blinking brightly. Many of the current reform efforts contain the seeds of the next generation of racial and social control, a system of ‘e-carceration’ that may prove more dangerous and more difficult to challenge than the one we hope to leave behind.

“Bail reform is a case in point. Thanks in part to new laws and policies — as well as actions like the mass bailout of inmates in New York City jails that’s underway — the unconscionable practice of cash bail is finally coming to an end. In August, California became the first state to decide to get rid of its cash bail system; last year, New Jersey virtually eliminated the use of money bonds.

“But what’s taking the place of cash bail may prove even worse in the long run. In California, a presumption of detention will effectively replace eligibility for immediate release when the new law takes effect in October 2019. And increasingly, computer algorithms are helping to determine who should be caged and who should be set ‘free.’ Freedom — even when it’s granted, it turns out — isn’t really free. . . .”

As data scientist Cathy O’Neil explains in the essay, “It’s tempting to believe that computers will be neutral and objective, but algorithms are nothing more than opinions embedded in mathematics. . . .”

NAJA Condemns Tribe’s Repeal of Free Press Law

The Native American Journalists Association said Friday it “condemns the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s repeal of the free press law and asks Muscogee (Creek) citizens to support an independent press free of government influence and censorship.

“On the evening of Nov. 8, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation National Council voted 7-6 to repeal the tribe’s Free Press Act and move its award-winning independent media arm, Mvskoke Media, under the executive branch’s Department of Commerce. The repeal also dissolved Mvskoke Media’s three-member editorial board and placed the staff under the direction of the Secretary of the Nation and Commerce Elijah W. McIntosh. The measure was approved by Principal Chief James Floyd.

“The text of the measure was not announced or made available to the public — including the Mvskoke Media staff and editorial board — until the morning of the meeting. As confirmed during Thursday night’s emergency council session, neither the Mvskoke Media staff nor the editorial board was consulted in the drafting process or even knew that the bill had been written.

“During debate on the measure, elected officials cited a desire to see ‘more positive stories’ in the newspaper. NAJA has also learned that Mvskoke Media staff must now receive prior approval on all published material. It is the opinion of NAJA that journalists should be bound by the ethical obligation to seek truth and report it. . . .”

Curtis Killman reported Friday for the Tulsa World, “Muscogee (Creek) Nation National Council Speaker Lucian Tiger III issued a statement Friday that read in part:

“NCA 18-180 returns Mvskoke Media to the Executive Branch and will continue to operate as it did before. Nothing in NCA 18-180 disbands or restricts Mvskoke Media’s ability to act as the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s media outlet despite attempts to brand the legislation as restrictive or suppressive of freedom of speech.”

ADL: Votes for Extremists ‘Disturbingly High’

“The 2018 midterms were not kind to most of the country’s extremist and bigoted candidates, but a number of them did garner disturbingly high vote counts,” the Anti-Defamation League said on Wednesday. “More than 1.8 million Americans voted for known extremists and bigots who were running for national offices. In races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House, extremists pulled in, on average, 29% percent of the vote.

“It’s important to acknowledge that some of these votes – perhaps even the majority – may reflect voters’ ignorance and/or their decision to vote a straight party ticket. But it’s also impossible to ignore the fact that a certain number of people felt, in the case of each of these candidates, that it was reasonable to vote for an overt white supremacist, or an outspoken bigot.

“The extremists’ sole winner of the night was U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), whose reelection prospects appeared briefly dimmed by his embrace of overtly white nationalist rhetoric. King beat back a strong Democratic challenger to keep his seat in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District. He won his 9th term with 50.4% of the vote.

“Despite their losses, the following extremist and bigoted candidates were successful in another, critical sense: For the past several months, they enjoyed a very public platform for disseminating their vile ideologies to millions of potential voters.

“Moreover, the political atmosphere that allowed these candidates to compete also allowed others who are not on this list to rely on racist, anti-Semitic and bigoted arguments against their opponents. . . .”

• Ari Feldman, Forward: Jewish GOP Chief Denounces Anti-Semitic Republican ‘Fistfuls Of Cash’ Ads
• Scott Wartman, Cincinnati Enquirer: Anti-Semitic ad on WLW and KRC sparks outrage. Federal law prevents stations from censoring candidates

. . . Congress to Seat Record Number of Latinos

“More Latinos will serve in Congress next year than ever before — at least 42, with one House race to be decided,” Luis Alonso Lugo and Emily Swanson reported for the Associated Press.

“With Latinos reaching an unprecedented level of representation on Capitol Hill, The Associated Press was able to document that 34 percent of Hispanics voters approve of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president, and other factors that mobilized the vote among the nation’s largest ethnic or racial minority. . . .”

Separately, “Latinos and other minorities voted heavily for Democratic candidates, helping to drive the party’s capture of the U.S. House in this year’s midterm elections, experts said Wednesday,” Suzanne Gamboa reported for NBC News.

Gamboa quoted Latino Decisions pollster Matt Barreto, who said in a conference call, “The net wave of the Democratic pickup is due entirely to strong support from minority communities who voted Democrat. The call discussed the election eve poll of 9,425 Latino, African American, Asian Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Native American voters.

. . . More on the Midterms

• Rafael Bernal, the Hill: Voter turnout in Latino-heavy areas boosts optimism for 2020
• Charles M. Blow, New York Times: Trump, Under Scrutiny and Unleashed
• Gus Bova, Texas Observer: Say Adiós to Matt Rinaldi, the Texas Lawmaker Who Called ICE to Report Latino Protesters
• Rachel M. Cohen, the Intercept: Why Ben Jealous Lost the Maryland Governor’s Race
• Elvia Díaz, Arizona Republic: Get angry: Newly elected Arizona Rep. Raquel Teran is being sued because she’s brown
• Editorial, Miami Herald: Elections happen. Why can’t Florida get this right?
• Mike Flynn, Seattle Times: Remembering Arthur Fletcher, father of affirmative action
• Chris Fuchs, NBC News: Two Asian Americans apparently elected to New York State Senate in historic first
• Renée Graham, Boston Globe: Memo to black men: Stop voting Republican
• Morgan Gstalter, the Hill: Ocasio-Cortez rips Fox News for cracking ‘jokes’ about her finances: It shows what they really think of working-class people
• Roy S. Johnson, al.com: South still has an ever-slight chance to rise beyond its past
• Shaun King, the Intercept: Why It’s a Big Deal That Four Black Candidates Won Their State Attorney General Races
• Ruben Navarrette Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: Voters ace the midterms
• Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald: With Democrats in charge, U.S. House will try to build bridges to Latin America instead of walls
• Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune: President Trump 2.0: No more ‘Crazy Maxine’?
• Kevin Powell, medium.com: After mid-term elections, where do we go from here?
• Eugene Robinson, Washington Post: Trump goes to the mattresses — and shows who was the big loser
• Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald: Here’s all the proof you’ll ever need that in Florida every single vote counts
• Veronica Villafañe, Media Moves: Journalist María Elvira Salazar loses Miami congressional race
• Ben White, Politico: What the 2018 election means for the economy and financial world [On Maxine Waters]

Short Takes

• To some, People magazine’s announcement Tuesday that actor Idris Elba is its Sexiest Man Alive was stating the obvious. “Idris Elba Is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive Because Water Is Wet,” was the headline on Essence magazine’s report. “Idris Elba — the man that I’ve asked Santa Claus for Christmas Every. Single. Year. since his days as HBO’s The Wire’s criminal genius, Stringer Bell . . .” wrote Elizabeth Wellington, lifestyle columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Elba is the third man of color so chosen, following Denzel Washington (1996) and Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson (2016).
• “When mainstream news agencies report on Central American migration, they frequently use a series of visual tropes to turn complex issues into predictable narratives,” Sarah Bassnett, associate professor at Western University, wrote Monday for the Conversation. Bassnett also wrote, “Photographs have the potential to affect us deeply, and in some cases may have an impact on public perception and even policy decisions, but well-worn motifs do not inspire such a response. Instead, they shut down interpretation and turn viewers into passive observers who are less inclined to speak out.”
• “Reform of the Chicago Police Department must go on, no matter how much Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the local cop union, the Fraternal Order of Police, would like it to end. There is no going back,” the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized Friday. “If Sessions and the FOP think a court-monitored consent decree to overhaul the department will make the police less effective, and even sour community relationships, they’re kidding themselves. In too many Chicago neighborhoods, there is no relationship and never was. In some neighborhoods, everybody feels like they’re doing a perp walk. . . .”
• “Sorry, but I can’t bring myself to shed any tears for the unceremonious firing of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III,” Tony Norman wrote Friday for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Even while acknowledging that the attorney general was treated shabbily by President Donald Trump, my sympathies are reserved for the victims of the xenophobic and racist policies Mr. Sessions enacted as the head of the Justice Department. . . .”
• “David Schiele didn’t know what would happen when he posted his reel over the weekend to Twitter, and asked for a retweet,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel wrote Tuesday for TV Spy. “The Georgia State University senior had put the reel out into the Twitterers, hoping it would help him land a job. He didn’t expect the tweet to receive 37,000 retweets in just a couple days, and get noticed by some of broadcasting’s most legendary anchors and sports reporters.” They included ABC-TV’s Robin Roberts, broadcaaster Keith Olbermann and rapper Lil Yachty.
• “She quit the television business two years ago when she was the WJBK‘s morning anchor,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel reported Tuesday for TV Spy. “Now, Anqunette Jamison Sarfoh, also known [as] Q, is back on the Fox station in Detroit, Mich., talking about her new business, a marijuana dispensary called Botaniq. Sarfoh was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and started using marijuana about two years ago. . . .”

• 

  “Julie Chen is suffering the consequences of her husband getting fired from the top job at CBS, as RadarOnline.com has learned that her upcoming book tour has been cancelled,” the Radar staff reported Thursday, referring to Leslie Moonves. ” ‘Julie was expected to come to New York to do a press tour to promote her new children’s book. Now after her husband’s sexual abuse scandal everything has been cancelled,’ sources tell STRAIGHT SHUTER. . . .”

• “In 2015, the death of Sandra Bland drew national attention around the world,” Essence magazine announced by email on Friday. “ESSENCE.com reports that on December 3rd, HBO will premiere its documentary that focuses on the last three days of Bland’s life, after she was arrested and booked into the Waller County Jail in Texas. In Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland, filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner explore the circumstances of Bland’s traffic stop, her death, as well as interviews with Bland’s family and friends. In addition to HBO’s documentary, during the week of November 19th a special ESSENCE Reports video will premiere exclusive interviews with two of Bland’s sisters on ESSENCE.com, as well as interviews in the upcoming December/January issue of the magazine. . . .”
• “The Reflect America Fellowship will bring a tenacious journalist to NPR for 18 months to help our journalism look and sound like America by finding new, diverse sources,” NPR has announced. “The fellowship is designed for an early- or mid-career journalist who wants to work and grow in one of the nation’s most dynamic newsrooms. The Fellow will have the opportunity to gain critical skills in reporting, writing and producing on audio and digital platforms while working with some of the country’s best journalists. . . .” Applications close at 11:59 EST p.m. on Dec. 9.
• “There have been 420 violations . . . of press freedom since protests began in Nicaragua last April, according to a new report from the Violeta Barrios de Chamorro Foundation (FVBCH, for its initials in Spanish),” Teresa Mioli reported Wednesday for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.
• NPR’s John Otis reported Saturday that hundreds of Venezuelan journalists have fled that country, but that one website, Armando.info, is continuing its investigative reporting from neighboring Colombia.

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