The Kick-Off to Freelancing!
We need the media to shine a spotlight on the fact that the city, state and federal governments turned their backs on this community.
--Jenga Mwendo on New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina*
Though mainstream media New York Times, Huffington Post, or CNN often offers timely nationally and internationally breaking news and many great articles, there are unfortunately a large volume of shallow, incomplete coverage. Here's a few headlines I read recently, Five dismembered bodies found in Darango, Mexico, Affordable Care Act cuts $716 billion to Medicare, and VP candidate Paul Ryan plans to overturn abortion ruling on Roe vs. Wade. Though I found all of these headlines interesting, all the headlines also summarized the entire stories. There were no contexts, cause-effect narrative, or conclusion. Simply, drama.
This sensationalistic, disorienting drama in the news is unfortunately the grounds that many news media sites stand on. Giving viewers enough fear and wonder, hiding complexities, context and insight, that they are captivated into reading or watching more. For many, this is the root of distrust in media as well. Hurricaine Katrina is a perfect example that Mwendo highlights. New Orlean's Black population has always been neglected by the government. New York Times caught onto the visual alarm calling it Jungleland, printing pictures of overrun houses. However the major point left out NYT overlooked is that these houses are government owned and neglected before and after the Hurricane. The houses do not reflect the Black community's initiatives to overcome the government neglect. Cases where the mainstream media and governments are in synchronicity, the media becomes a puppet, perpetuating all of the governments faults and foibles.
I'll go insane if I don't start to correct this battered system. Media has the capacity to be powerful and beautiful as well. Bringing visibility comes power. Media connects problems to innovations and communities to leaders one photo, word, sound byte, video clip at a time.
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