....and the conversation continues...?
As THE Inkognegro so eloquently pointed out about the discussion of race relations between Kevin Powell, Professor Greg Carr - PhD from Howard University, Kriss Turner - screenwriter of Something New, Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson, and radio talk show host Tom Joyner and Brian Williams (MSNBC moderator) after the airing of "Meeting David Wilson" on NBC:
...and waited for that singular moment that inevitably arises where you see it all devolve into a squandered opportunity. I saw many candidates, but one particular moment took the cake.
A conversation ensued where each individual took their issues to a personal place and inevitably fell into a bunch of wolf tickets snuffed out by the unyielding march of the profit driven media.Ultimately, if anything has been learned as we settle into the 21st Century, the media is what it is and it does what it does.
What it is, is a tool of the market. An enterprise. Despite the railings of ANYONE who says differently, it has only one master and one goal.
Profit.
Please don't ever get it twisted....no matter how important, how poignant, how relevant a media-controlled moment in these discussions might be....unless you have a chance of trumping the media's power by running the country....you will be interrupted by the ever present commercial break.
And as I commented on the Inkognegro's blog - just because a mainstream media outlet attempts to justify their legitimacy as a news outlet by sharing these "news stories' - doesn't mean I buy into it. I'm tempted to agree with Professor Greg Carr of Howard University (and Warren Ballentine for that matter) - who understand that we (the proverbial US black folks) don't expect much from the "euro-stream" media. And I (being an MBA) understand that profit rules.
But I & I (as a conscious thinking person), even as I don't expect much, know that I have to demand much more. Yes, Inkog is right - it (the media) does what it does - we just need to scream louder when we see it's BS.