10 Black owned newspapers join forces to create online platform

[Deuterion]

Damn man,didn't even let the thread breathe a day

I'll do a wait and see approach, not that I get my news from any one source anyway.

No reason to let c00n narratives fester.

more and more i'm starting to think a lot of these outlets are bolstered by white liberal money hence their soft stances on clearly Ados issues.

They are, this one is backed by Facebook and Google. Won't hire a nikka for shyt but funding a Black news site...that's suspect.

 

[get these nets]

That is kind of an extreme generalization, although I can see the "striking back at their nonexistent elders" could hold some weight.

Won't change the fact that they would have an uphill battle considering they are they "Old Guard" whose readership grew up newspapers.

My (our?) gen reads everything online from the more popular news outlets so I wonder how they plan to market themselves.

From the time I joined, until fairly recently when I did a mass purge/ignore, been subjected to reading childlike kneejerk posts in threads covering all manner of topics.

Seen and heard enough of the same thing over and over, even when it's refuted/debunked.. Same stuff, like a broken record.


The simple either/or scenarios that come up repeatedly on this site aren't rooted in reality. People saw their parents make sacrifices and compromises to provide for their families, so some of these notions seem to come from people who are detached from that experience.

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Of course, it's an uphill battle, but rather than fold up their tents, these publishers are banding together to figure out solutions. If being a business owner was easy, everybody would do it. It's sink or swim, just like every other industry.



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To keep public awareness up, around some of the local print papers sponsored children's teams in Summer sports leagues, and partnered with vendors at festivals. Their logo/masthead is at little league baseball games, soccer matches, cricket tourneys.....wherever families and people from different generations come together.

The strength of this collective is partly based on the cities they are in. They are technically affiliates of one big network. They have experienced journalists with boots on the ground to cover events and stories in metro markets. If they can get the L.A. Sentinel on board, and Philly , they'd be covering a wide cross section of the country. I think they could expand into a national audio or video news network.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

No reason to let c00n narratives fester.



They are, this one is backed by Facebook and Google. Won't hire a nikka for shyt but funding a Black news site...that's suspect.

damn

 

[invalid]

They are, this one is backed by Facebook and Google. Won't hire a nikka for shyt but funding a Black news site...that's suspect.

Facebook gives them funding.
And they turn around and called out Facebook as the KKK. Do you think if Facebook had any say with respect to the direction of their content, they would be putting out articles like this, equating them to a white supremacist organization, and therefore biting the hand that feeds them?

Managing Editor ReShonda Tate tackles war on women, Gov. Crazy and Facebookkk

Facebook has apologized after a video featuring Black men was classified as a video featuring “primates” by the social network’s artificial intelligence software, the latest of several examples of anti-Black bias in A.I. and facial recognition. Several Facebook users, after watching a Daily Mail video of Black men being harassed by a white man, were reportedly sent an automated message asking if they would like to “keep seeing videos about Primates.” After being made aware of the issue, the company disabled the A.I. feature responsible for the message and is investigating it for errors. Studies have revealed racial biases embedded into a number of A.I. and facial recognition systems, specifically that the technology is not designed to identify Black facial features as accurately as white features, leading to instances of misidentification and even wrongful imprisonment. As someone who just got out of Facebook jail because that artificial intelligence takes stuff out of context, FB needs to go back to the techonological drawing board. Because “Sorry” doesn’t fix these mistakes.

Managing Editor ReShonda Tate tackles war on women, Gov. Crazy and Facebookkk

I think we should give black media a little bit more credit instead of dismissing them as puppets for white liberal corporate interests.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Telling us to get vaccinated.

Yea. This is what black doctors suggest. Problem?

 

[Deuterion]

Facebook gives them funding.
And they turn around and called out Facebook as the KKK. Do you think if Facebook had any say with respect to the direction of their content, they would be putting out articles like this, biting the hand that feeds them?



Managing Editor ReShonda Tate tackles war on women, Gov. Crazy and Facebookkk

I think we should give black media a little bit more credit instead of dismissing them as puppets for white liberal corporate interests.

I gave multiple examples of this rag being compromised by a liberal agenda from talk of: Black and Brown, Vote for Democrats or we will lose progress, get the vax, and showed how they let a white mayor say giving money to Latinos was reparations. But here you go with disinfo posting the most softest of critiques on Facebook and acting like she did something. She started the article saying:

“Facebook has apologized after a video featuring Black men was classified as a video featuring “primates” by the social network’s artificial intelligence software, the latest of several examples of anti-Black bias in A.I. and facial recognition.” After being made aware of the issue, the company disabled the A.I. feature responsible for the message and is investigating it for errors.

So she begins it with FB saying sorry and then makes it look like an aberration by saying they took it down and looked for errors. She basically let Facebook off the hook in the first couple sentences. Her only rebuke in the short paragraph was this:

As someone who just got out of Facebook jail because that artificial intelligence takes stuff out of context, FB needs to go back to the techonological drawing board. Because “Sorry” doesn’t fix these mistakes.”

You notice how she didn’t talk about how Facebook has a pattern of racism from their hiring practices to censorship of Black people on the platform? Yeah, because she knows where her bread is buttered. Nothing about this is Black media or about a Black agenda. It’s not like facebook’s anti-blackness is unknown.

Facebook faces US investigation for 'systemic' racial bias in hiring

 

[invalid]

She basically let Facebook off the hook in the first couple sentences. Her only rebuke in the short paragraph was this:

No. Her biggest rebuke was in the title, painting the imagery of Facebook as a white supremacist organization.

I gave multiple examples of this rag being compromised by a liberal agenda from talk of: Black and Brown, Vote for Democrats or we will lose progress, get the vax, and showed how they let a white mayor say giving money to Latinos was reparations.

Question: How do you presume to know what the agenda is for all black people? For instance, what is this black agenda on vaccines? You posit the black agenda as being something other than the liberal (and I’m assuming conservative) agendas without any room for intersection or overlap. So what is this fixed black agenda that doesn’t converge with other political ideologies? And how have you gauged the rest of black America to be on board with it?

 

[Deuterion]

No. Her biggest rebuke was in the title, painting the imagery of Facebook as a white supremacist organization.

Question: How do you presume to know what the agenda is for all black people? For instance, what is this black agenda on vaccines? You posit the black agenda as being something other than the liberal (and I’m assuming conservative) agendas without any room for intersection or overlap. So what is this fixed black agenda that doesn’t converge with other political ideologies? And how have you gauged the rest of black America to be on board with it?

Stick to the subject. This paper is not pro-Black, it’s financed by whites, the content is curated by whites, it’s managed by a white company and it advocates for black and brown, democrats, and vaccines. This is status quo, nothing new, nothing that is going to empower us…same ol nonsense that is leading us to the graveyard. A so called Black news site’s materials shouldn’t match Joe Biden’s first 100 days so closely…especially when his first 1000 days was about everything BUT us.

 

[get these nets]

Facebook gives them funding.
And they turn around and called out Facebook as the KKK. Do you think if Facebook had any say with respect to the direction of their content, they would be putting out articles like this, equating them to a white supremacist organization, and therefore biting the hand that feeds them?




Managing Editor ReShonda Tate tackles war on women, Gov. Crazy and Facebookkk

I think we should give black media a little bit more credit instead of dismissing them as puppets for white liberal corporate interests.

Can't see who you are debating against, but since TLR never changes, I can piece together how the exchange went

Poster "This group of people wouldn't do x,y,z"
DG " Here is proof of that group doing x,y,z"
Poster "(moves goal posts,deflects,juelzes)"

Once the goal posts move, they never stop moving
Skepticism and caution are great, but by not conceding that their point that was refuted, dudes lose credibility in discussions. And show that they are not skeptical, but paranoid.

 

[CoryMack]

I’m gonna have to agree with Deuterion. If all we’re gonna get is what we’ve been getting from the majority of Black media - vote democrat, people of color coalition, and basically toting the liberal party line - then nothing substantial will come from this. I would ask why The Final Call, a newspaper/media site that’s been around as long as any of those others weren’t included, but I already know the answer.

Black people don’t need anymore milquetoast media. We’re misinformed and fukked as enough as it is. We need hard hitting uncompromising truth.

 

[get these nets]

I’m gonna have to agree with Deuterion. If all we’re gonna get is what we’ve been getting from the majority of Black media - vote democrat, people of color coalition, and basically toting the liberal party line - then nothing substantial will come from this. I would ask why The Final Call, a newspaper/media site that’s been around as long as any of those others weren’t included, but I already know the answer.

Black people don’t need anymore milquetoast media. We’re misinformed and fukked as enough as it is. We need hard hitting uncompromising truth.

Pushing Back Against the BIPOC Umbrella

Ten papers, several columnists with different viewpoints. Brother in the link isn't on that time.

 

[CoryMack]

Pushing Back Against the BIPOC Umbrella

Ten papers, several columnists with different viewpoints. Brother in the link isn't on that time.

Of course I’ll check it out, but I just don’t have much confidence in real truth telling in Black media nowadays on the issues that really matter.

The Final Call has had an online presence for years now and is still one of the better sources of news around. It’s just disappointing and disgusting the way so many of us treat that organization.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

I just did a quick skim of the first page and its:


THEY ARE CAPING FOR OTHERS...I thought this word in black not word in BIPOC


THEY ARE TELLING US TO VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS OR ALL IS LOST...wooow I ain't ever heard that before



Telling us to get vaccinated.

So far, I don't see anything that makes this Black. There's no Black Agenda here, just typical liberal babble in Black face.

Yep or esle they wont get those grants and that's probably the only thing keeping them afloat.

 

[ORDER_66]

No reason to let c00n narratives fester.



They are, this one is backed by Facebook and Google. Won't hire a nikka for shyt but funding a Black news site...that's suspect.

This is just like that new youtube BNC black pundits WHITE owner!!! and no one puts them on blast for that?! How can you be a BLACK NEWS CHANNEL with WHITE OWNERS YOU ARE SUSPECT ASF!!!