Speaking of which, the need for minority talent in both print and broadcast has become essential over the past few months as the public followed first the presidential primaries and now the general election. During the primaries there were countless occasions when the debate turned to race, and on many news programs there was not a journalist of color to weigh in and offer a different perspective. To be fair, many media outlets have made and are making an effort to have more diverse representation on their political pundit panels. Since it looks like the country will have an African-American as the Democratic nominee for president, the pressure will be on the media to use minority journalists to help wade through the political discourse. Read more about this in Ronald Roach’s “Coming Into View.
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