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CNN’s Call To Watch The Wiz Live! With Black Twitter Is Pure Struggle

CNN and Black Twitter aren’t the best of buds, considering that the major news network has often treated the popular segment of the social media platform like a science experiment. The network is back to its hijinks after they assigned a Black writer to write a piece essentially telling white folks to tune into Black Twitter Thursday night (Dec. 3) for the airing of The Wiz Live! on NBC.  Continue

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CNN’s Call To Watch The Wiz Live! With Black Twitter Is Pure Struggle

CNN’s Call To Watch The Wiz Live! With Black Twitter Is Pure Struggle

CNN and Black Twitter aren’t the best of buds, considering that the major news network has often treated the popular segment of the social media platform like a science experiment. The network is back to its hijinks after they assigned a Black writer to write a piece essentially telling white folks to tune into Black Twitter Thursday night (Dec. 3) for the airing of The Wiz Live! on NBC.  Continue

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CNN’s Call To Watch The Wiz Live! With Black Twitter Is Pure Struggle

Shonda Rhimes Educates The New York Times On Their ‘Angry Black Woman’ Label

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This is what happens when a major news publication doesn’t hire a Black writer to write about us. New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley…

Shonda Rhimes Educates The New York Times On Their ‘Angry Black Woman’ Label

Media Mostly Ignore Gore Admitting He Only Supported Ethanol Mandates to Help His Presidential Ambitions

On Monday, NewsBusters was the first American media outlet to report Nobel laureate Al Gore's admission that he only supported ethanol mandates in the '90s because he thought it would help his presidential ambitions. As it turns out, with very few exceptions, no major news divisions thought this was at all important: read more

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Media Mostly Ignore Gore Admitting He Only Supported Ethanol Mandates to Help His Presidential Ambitions