The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said Tuesday that it would place CNN on a "special media monitoring list," citing a lack of black representation among the network's leadership ranks.
NABJ said in a statement that its preliminary research showed that CNN has no black employees reporting to CNN President Jeff Zucker. It also showed that the news organization has no black executive producers as well as no black vice presidents or senior vice presidents on the news side.
CNN disputed the group's finding that there are no black vice presidents on the news side, according to NABJ. But the news network did not provide the name or position of the vice president or vice presidents, NABJ said.
The NABJ said a four-person delegation sought to meet with Zucker but that the CNN president refused to do so because of "a personal issue between CNN and NABJ’s Vice President-Digital Roland Martin" stemming from Martin's participation in a 2016 town hall with then-Democrat presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.
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5 comments:
When they find an educated black person who has no problem having to lie for a living, there's their pick for a new VP.
What is CNN afraid of? Blacks telling the truth just doesn't seem like a plan for the disgusting network.
Sounds like a Shakedown to me!
Jesse and Al, call your offices. There's a smell of money in the air!
WOW. Still can't get a job on your own merit?? Just cry RACISM and you'll get a corner office on the top floor. Then when the company FAILS and closes from all your hard deserving work. Yeah we've seen this movie before. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION should be known as AFFIRMATIVE FAILURE.
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