Coal Industry Post
Multiple Guest Appearances
"Mohammed the Bear" Stuff
"Don't Taze Me, Bro!"
"Yikes! I Might Be...Militia!"
Ramadan Coke Post
Credentialed Poll Watcher
HERO SHOT
Mitt Romney Post
"2007 BugsGoneWild.com Calendar"
Ramadan Coke Post
As of 12-31-08
Earlier this evening, I published a post by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton of Noisy Room fame about an incident involving Michael Lacey (above), executive editor of Village Voice, and his recent use of the “N” word during a Society of Professional Journalists awards banquet in Phoenix.
In researching the incident further, I learned that none of the “big boys” in the mainstream news media — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Los Angeles Times or New York Times — have seen fit to cover the racist comment committed by the leader of the well-known alternative weekly. For that matter, not even the Fox News Channel covered it. Instead, only a few of the smaller media outlets around the nation have touched the topic.
Take a look at this Arizona Family video of the speech and see if you think his comments deserve as much attention, let’s say, as radio talk show host Don Imus received.
4 responses so far ↓
1 hotoffthepress2 // Apr 11, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Correction: I was told after printing the piece above that Fox News did run a piece on the Lacey speech during Hannity & Colmes.
2 Mike_Love... // Apr 12, 2008 at 4:15 am
What? is that it???? Fox News sucks!! They played it up like he said something really offensive and he deserved to be fired. I am black and I wasn’t offended by his remark. Sure it was distasteful, but clearly he meant no harm. Only an idiot would compare his remark to Don Imus’ malicious comments. Just another reason to hate fox news.
3 Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » L.A. Weekly: The Autopsy Report // Jan 6, 2009 at 11:16 pm
[...] has been written about New Times honcho Mike Lacey and some of his more off-color antics. I have only met him twice. Once at a group luncheon in 1994 where we shared a few beers and joked [...]
4 Marc Cooper: An Obituary for the LA Weekly | Pop + Politics // Jan 9, 2009 at 10:55 am
[...] has been written about New Times honcho Mike Lacey and some of his more off-color antics. I have only met him twice. Once at a group luncheon in 1994 where we shared a few beers and joked [...]
Leave a Comment