Word: garcias
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Inaccurate reporting hurts race relations and fosters stereotypes. I am referring to Katrina A. Garcia's article "Panel Tackles Blacks in Media" (News, Dec. 2). Garcia misrepresented the comments of Christopher Lydon, host of the national radio show "The Connection" and a last-minute substitute for Bill Kovach, the Nieman Foundation Curator...
Lydon said that Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate and African-American writer, had recently stated in The New Yorker that President Clinton had become a black man due to humiliating attacks on his character. Garcia's reporting, which omitted any mention of Toni Morrison, gave the impression that Lydon himself had come up with the idea and that Clinton blackness's had only to do with the stereotype of promiscuous black men. All of this is incorrect...
Furthermore, Garcia inaccurately quoted the response to Lydon by Greg Moore, managing editor of The Boston Globe. Moore expressed disdain for Toni Morrison's views, not for Lydon's. And lastly, Lydon did not disagree with a point made by Globe columnist Derrick Z. Jackson, namely that the media tend to portray successful white athletes as intelligent and successful black athletes as physically gifted...
...only did I feel was better able to delve into my topic, Kristy L. Garcia '98 wrote in an e-mail, "but it also cut about 10 to 15 pages of writing...
...There are a lot of raised expectations with dual submissions, from both professors' points of view, and that aspect was what worried me the most," Garcia said. "In the end it actually went quite well, surprisingly enough...