Media gang up on Jackson and ignore the plight of black voters

By Derrick Z. Jackson, Globe Columnist, 11/22/2000

THE MEDIA'S DENIAL about potential disenfranchisment in Florida is cloaked in the denigration of Jesse Jackson. In lockstep media commentary, Jackson was depicted as a crazed black man on the corner, so nuts that cab drivers, the editors steering the news, had every justification to pass him up.

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The NAACP and civil rights workers held a hearing a week and a half ago on reports of discrimination and intimidation at the polls. But we have no idea if this was enough to affect the vote for president because the media did not follow it up.

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If as much of the media's resources went into following up on the NAACP's hearings as in the definition of a chad, we might already know the true story. Now, with two weeks gone, the truth, whatever it was, is being lost.

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