National Security, Politics, Religion, Social Justice and Critical Thinking - Paul Greenberg on cultural diversity in media and seeking multiple news sources

Paul Greenberg on cultural diversity in media and seeking multiple news sources

09/05/18 • 15 min

National Security, Politics, Religion, Social Justice and Critical Thinking

This is a continuation of an interview with Paul Greenberg conducted on August 22, 2018

Paul Greenberg's partial transcript.

"If you turn on your TV at night and you go to a cable station, you’re probably going to see somebody who is white more than you’ll see somebody who is black, or Latino, or Hispanic, or Asian, or whatever. We have a lot of different types of people in America, yet the people that are putting forth the information to all the people are generally white males. I see that as a real problem. I think that the networks are owned and operated by white males. I think the power base is among the white male population, and I think that these white males—particularly those that have been in the industry for a really long time— like the status quo. These days, media has changed so much and there are so many different kinds of media that some of the media organizations that may not be the major ones are owned and operated and produced by millennials. So that's a whole different story. So what we see 10 to 15 years from now might be quite different than what we are seeing now. But you’re still going to see a lot of white-haired white males on TV, right? If I am a black person in America, or an Asian, or Hispanic, or whatever, why do I constantly have to get my information from a white male? Where are the rest of the people? So, I see that as a real ethical problem." #culturaldiversity #diversityinmedia #questioneverything

This is a continuation of an interview with Paul Greenberg conducted on August 22, 2018

Paul Greenberg's partial transcript.

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Paul Greenberg on ethics and bias in the media

Here is a sample of the transcript from Paul Greenberg's interview about ethics and bias in the media.

"Starting about 1980, that's when CNN went on the air, we had a 24-hour news cycle. When you have a 24-hour news cycle—if you can sort of fast-forward all these years later and you have all these different platforms in which the information can reach the audience—you have to fill up those 24 hours. So therein lies the reason that several years ago, the lines between entertainment and news blurred, and now they are fully blurred. So when the consumer tunes in to wherever they tune in to to get the news, they are expecting to be stimulated. We have to stimulate the consumer every minute and that means that sometimes some of what comes across is going to be more opinion. It's going to be more one-sided than it would've been, and that led to the rise of these networks that you mention, like FOX, for the sort of far- right group, and MSNBC for the far-left group. And now we are in a situation where people absolutely expect that. On the other hand, they really object to it. You hear people say journalism is dead. Journalism is not dead. Journalism is in transition." #mediabias #mediaethics #24hrnews

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