| Race Against Prime Time
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. |
" Highly teleliterate...A
persuasive indictment of media stereotypes." "An admirable
work which gets down to particulars." Producer/Director:
David Shulman Video
Purchase: $195
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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.
