98 Percent of Networks Jobs Stories Ignore High Black Unemployment

julia.seymour — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:38:03 +0000

Despite bipartisan outrage, NBC gives just 10 seconds to jobs crisis while ABC, CBS remain silent.

Sean Long

There is a jobs crisis in the U.S. that is going virtually unnoticed by the broadcast networks. The unemployment rate for African Americans towers over the national average, upsetting conservatives and liberals.

In spite of bipartisan outrage, the three broadcast networks gave just 10 seconds combined to the black unemployment rate around the monthly jobs reports in the past year. Liberal Rev. Jesse Jackson was one of many frustrated people. He has complained that “the media [is] dismissing it as not important.”

— Sean Long is Staff Writer at the Media Research Center. Follow Sean Long on Twitter.

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98 Percent of Networks Jobs Stories Ignore High Black Unemployment