Apparently, according to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, some of the journalists covering Michelle Obama are black women.
And apparently, according to Howard Kurtz, they note with enthusiasm Mrs. Obama’s position as a black, female role model.
He quotes Newsweek’s Allison Samuels”
Without a doubt, I identify with her as a brown-skinned African American woman,” Samuels says. “Now we have Michelle and see her as a mother, a lawyer, a wife, and she’s doing it fabulously.” Samuels got to interview Obama during the campaign and “we had a girlfriend-to-girlfriend moment. We did connect.”
All of which leads Mr. Kurtz to question the objectivity of these journalists:
But are the beat reporters inadvertently invested in her success?
When was the last time you heard a white reporter wonder whether white reporters could objectively cover white public figures; or a male reporter wonder whether male reporters could cover male public figures?
But somehow when the reporter is African-American and female it is legitimate to question her objectivity.
This is disgusting. The Washington Post is allegedly bringing us objective news everyday. Instead, we get some pop sociology tinged with racism and sexism and an utter lack of self awareness.
This, of course, is the same newspaper that recently offered to sell lobbyists access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors for a fee of from $25,000-$250,000!
I’m sure that wouldn’t interfere with their objectivity.
The mainstream media is not worth reading and when they are out of business we may get our democracy back.
