The FOX & Friends homepage, this morning, included 41 photographs of faces. Of those 41, 37 are of people who are racially white, 3 are African American, 1 is Asian. Of the 41 faces, 11 are women, all are white. 10 out of eleven women have blond or light hair (the only dark-haired woman was in an ad). Of the 3 black males pictured on the FOX & Friends homepage, 2 were criminals: a boy accused of stealing and a football player jailed for dogfighting (Michael Vick). The third black male depicted was a “Grill Sergeant”—a soldier offering tips on barbecue. To call this kind of content “racist” and leave it at that would be to miss the key point. The FOX & Friends homepage on this day was not merely offensive or callous towards African-Americans in a thoughtless way on the order of “Whoops! I didn’t mean to say that.” Rather, it was a consciously structured media product: an internet platform populated with segregated content, tailored to meet the expectations of an audience that enjoys seeing a segregated vision of America as white men and blond women, with a few black criminals, athletes, and short-order cooks thrown in for color. Segregation & Friends ☀
Wednesday 29 July 2009
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