Posts Tagged media
Black journalist look to buy Ebony Magazine
A group of black journalist are looking to buy Ebony Magazine. One of the groups says, “We want to maintain [Ebony founder] John H. Johnson’s dream that the control and ownership continue to be in African-American hands,”
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Add comment October 8, 2009
Is Ebony Magazine for sale?
An advertising slump is hammering the nation’s oldest magazine devoted to African-American life. That Magazine Ebony Magazine may be for sale by it’s publisher Johnson Publishing in an effort to keep the magazine alive.
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Add comment September 26, 2009
An Open Letter to black radio. ( Cathy Hughes and Radio One )
Paul Porter of Industryears.com has written an open letter to Radio One founder Cathy Hughes asking for more news and informative talk on the black radio stations she owns. This is a message not just to radio One but to all of black radio:
Read the letter here:
An Open Letter To Black Radio
Add comment September 15, 2009
Black newspaper publishers call Joe Wilson racist and boycott South Carolina
Black newspaper publishers say Congressman Joe Wilson is racist and are boycotting South Carolina. The NNPA better known as Black Press US has joined the NAAACP in it’s boycott of South Carolina and has cancelled it’s Jan 2010 convention in South Carolina
Add comment September 12, 2009
BMW not advertising on black radio?
One of the auto-maker’s BMW advertising agencies in issuing a ‘No Urban Dictate’ for an upcoming BMW/MINI Cooper radio ad campaign.
No Urban Dictate is a fancy way of saying no advertising on black radio. I knew there was a reason I always liked Audi better. Read the entire story by clicking the link below:
Add comment August 29, 2009
After racist comments by host advertisers leave Glenn Beck Show
Due to a campaign by colorofchange.org several major advertisers like wal-Mart, Beast Buy and Gieco have left the Glenn Beck Show which airs in Fox News.
In July Beck said that President Obama is a racist who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Beck called President Obama a racist who has a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”
Click the link below to see which other advertisers who have left the show:
Add comment August 19, 2009
National Media finally covering story of serial killer killing black women in North Carolina
National media finally covering story of serial killer killing black women in Rocky Mount North Carolina. See coverage from CNN, Fox News, USA Today, and the Associated Press here:
Add comment August 15, 2009
African American Media struggling to survive
Just like mainstream media, African American publications and media outlets are struggling. Minority broadcasters have asked the Treasury Secretary for what amounts to a temporary bailout to keep afloat. Read the entire article here:
Add comment August 14, 2009

Bill Cosby shocked by Obama’s comments on Gates arrest
On a Boston morning radio program , Bill Cosby suggested that President Obama spoke too soon on the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
“I’ve heard about five different reports [on the details of the arrest],” Cosby said on Boston’s WZLX. “If I’m the president of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut.” Watch the interview by using the link below:
http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/blacknewsblackviews.html
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Add comment July 24, 2009