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How Race Is Lived in the Media: The New York Times' Muddled Series Misses the Mark
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December 31, 2000
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How Race Is Lived in the Media: The New York Times' Muddled Series Misses the Mark
by Makani N. Themba
Several months ago, The New York Times ran an extraordinary six-week series (June 4-July 16) of 16 articles, "How Race Is Lived in America." (They are available online at www.nytimes.com, using the series title.) While it represented a massive and unusual allocation of resources by "the newspaper of record," and told some fascinating and revealing stories, it failed in basic ways to probe the historic and structural roots of "the American dilemma." The following critique comments on that failure; we'd be happy to hear from other readers on the subject.
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