Race Against Prime Time

Race Against Prime Time is the only film to scrutinize how television news represents African Americans. This hard-hitting documentary takes us behind the scenes at the newsrooms of the three network affiliates during the Liberty City uprising in Miami which left 18 dead. It provides a classic case study of how the news gets made: what we see - and what we don't.

Race Against Prime Time documents how local television newsmen anoint black community spokespersons, characterize whites as victims and blacks as rioters and fail to place the disturbances within the context of and decades of civic neglect. This film reminds us that twenty-five years after the Kerner report decried media prejudice, news reporting remains very much a white view of black realities.




Media Literacy
Journalism
Minorities, Representation and Stereotypes
Television

" Highly teleliterate...A persuasive indictment of media stereotypes."
-- Village Voice

"An admirable work which gets down to particulars."
-- New York Times

Producer/Director: David Shulman
58 minutes, 1985

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