ABSTRACT
Scores of speeches, papers, articles, books, and television programs criticized the mainstream news media and journalism educators for not including more members of minority groups in their news organizations and classrooms and on their faculties. Others criticized the news coverage of minorities and their lives in various media as sparse, unrepresentative, stereotypical, and unduly negative. Native-American journalists were also the most likely to have children living with them, and Asian Americans and Hispanics were least likely, with African Americans and Whites in between. A Native-American journalist mentioned the “reluctance of the more mainstream news organizations to take an interest in the Native-American community,” and added, “They’re only interested in stereotypical topics, and the reader has to take them by the hand and explain why it is important. The reader has to give them a history lesson too”.
